Pomegranate and Mint Chicken Salad

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Plate of pomegranate, mint and chicken salad

I can’t believe that in 3 days time Joe and I are going to be getting on a plane back home! Honestly it just doesn’t seem real to me! It’s like ahhhhhhhh I just want to scream because I’m so excited but I wish we could just skip over the whole 20+ hour plane trip and the layover and the jetlag etc! Oh but it will be so good to see home again and spend time with family and friends. Anyway now I have a huge smile on my face 😀

Ok so remember when I posted this recipe and said that you could use the leftovers to make something else, well this is the something else that I made! It’s a super simple salad but very tasty! The dressing is really what makes it! If you want some crunch add some roughly chopped walnuts on top! [Read more…]

Lemon Tarragon and Garlic Chicken

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Lemon Tarragon Garlic Chicken

When it comes to cooking, one of the most useful pieces of kitchen equipment you can have… and should have is a slow cooker. I use mine multiple times a week and I’m actually considering getting a second one at some point, just so I can have more than one thing going at a time, which would be especially useful for when I’m making bone broth.

Slow cookers are great for any time of year really, and you can get a lot of food made with minimal effort, all you have to do is wait! One of my favourite things to make in my slow cooker is a whole chicken. There are a million different ways to dress up a whole chicken and you’ll even end up with leftovers to use during the week (watch out for a leftover chicken salad I’ll be sharing in an upcoming post!). [Read more…]

Lemon Tarragon Herbed Butter

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Plate of lemon tarragon herbed butter

I debated whether to share this recipe or not, I mean I have a feeling most people would already know how to make herbed butter but at the same time maybe some people don’t? In any case I thought it would be a good one to feature as a recipe here since herbed butter is so versatile! To be honest it had been a while… actually a long time since I had made it myself but since I was planning on making a whole chicken in the slow cooker and wanted to use this in there, I decided to share it with you. The recipe for the chicken will be coming up as well!

So what is herbed butter? Basically it’s taking a softened block of butter and adding in fresh herbs to it and mixing together. Some people also use dried herbs but I like using fresh. What you use is up to you and depends on what you’re going to pair it with. I also like adding lemon zest or orange zest as well to really liven up the flavours! Once you’ve made your herbed butter you can use it for a number of things like cooking vegetables in it or adding it to some baked potatoes or adding some on top of a well cooked piece of steak… YUM! [Read more…]

Apple Tarragon Meatballs

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Plate of apple and tarragon pork meatballs with zucchini noodles.

It’s been a great first week in our new place! We’re pretty much settled in and unpacked which always feels nice. Both Joe and I feel so much more content and happier in this place than the last one… we both keep saying we wish we were living here from the start but I’m sure we appreciate it that much more because we had to go through living in a not so nice place with lots of problems at the start.

Yesterday we went for a bit of a wander around the neighbourhood and I snapped some photos so I’ll share those in another post some time this week hopefully. Also for those of you who aren’t following me on my Facebook page you might not know that we are now living pretty much across the road from a castle! Crazy huh?! We even get free annual passes to the castle which we collected yesterday, which means we can pop over whenever we like! So yep overall life is good 🙂

So on to the recipe! This is the first one I’m sharing from our new place… YAAAYYYY!!! For this recipe I got to thinking about classic flavour combinations, specifically two or three ingredients that go REALLY well together and that have stood the test of time. Things like salt and caramel, garlic, tomato and basil or chocolate and bacon… YEP! All fantastic flavour combinations.

One of the quickest and easiest things I make are meatballs, we buy a lot of ground meat, it’s cheaper than a lot of other cuts of meat and convenient as it can be prepared a number of different ways. Plus you can flavour it in SO many different ways that personally I find it hard to get sick of. Plus I think if you’re looking at going paleo and are finding it daunting because you think grass-fed/pastured meat is expensive then using ground meat is a great option!

Anyway back to the recipe! So since we had some pastured ground pork in the freezer I decided to use that as the base for my meatballs, then I thought about what flavours go well with pork and I decided on apple and tarragon. I mean talk about a classic combination! Pork and apples together are AMAZING but the addition of tarragon makes it even BETTER!

Apple Tarragon Meatballs

Apple, Tarragon and Pork Meatballs

Ingredients:
  • 500gm/1.1lbs ground pork (preferably pastured pork).
  • 1 Pink Lady apple or apple of your choice (Pink Ladies are one of my favourite apples!).
  • 2 tsp dried tarragon.
  • Himalayan salt, to taste.
  • Freshly cracked black pepper, to taste.
Method:

Preheat oven to 180C/350F.

Line a baking tray with foil or parchment paper.

Place ground pork into a mixing bowl.

Wash, core, peel and grate the apple on a box grater or in a food processor. Add the grated apple to the pork.

Add the tarragon and season with the S&P.

Using your hands mix everything together well.

Form medium sized meatballs with your hands with the mixture and place onto the lined baking tray as you go.

Place in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the meatballs are cooked through.

Serve with spiralised zucchini noodles and enjoy!

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