Thursday, January 13, 2011

Have you seen this trendy new health drink....???
Gloji superjuice offers two mixes
Gloji Mix - part goji and part pomegranate - for all your antioxidant overdosing
OR
Gloji Gold "100% Pure Premium Power" - wild grown goji berries, ripe harvested from the lower desert of Tibet
start your year off with a GLOJI health bang!!!

Lunch Box Treat!


Children and adults alike love rice crispy treats!

Here's an easy recipe:

5 Bar-one's, chopped
150g butter
100g rice crispies or coco pops
75g chocolate

Grease a 20cm square dish.
Melt the butter and bar-ones in a saucepan over medium heat.
Once melted add the rice crispies and fold until coated in the butter and bar-one mixture.
Pour into the greased dish.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave, watching it to ensure it doesnt seize, and drizzle over the top of the crispies.
Leave to set in the fridge before cutting into squares.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Lunch Box

Sweetcorn & Courgette Fritters


It's the time of the year when creating balanced, healthy lunch boxes seems a bit of a chore!
We'll be posting a few ideas this week to get you inspired!

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 large corn cobs, kernels removed
Olive oil for shallow frying
1 cup tzatiki for dipping

Method

Sift flour into a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Using a fork, whisk milk and eggs together in a jug until combined. Pour over flour. Stir until smooth. Add corn and zucchini. Stir until well combined.

Pour olive oil into a frying pan and over a medium heat, heat until hot. Using 1/4 cup of mixture per fritter, spoon mixture, 3 fritters at a time, into pan. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes each side or until golden and firm to touch in the centre. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Notes

  • To freeze: Wrap each fritter in plastic wrap, then foil. Freeze for up to 2 months. Remove from freezer in the morning. Place frozen fritters in lunch box with a small container of tzatziki. Fritters will thaw by lunchtime.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Barbecoa






Jamie Oliver's new restaurant in London. A barbecue haven acknowledging the relationship between fire and wood. Looks pretty slick and smart.

See more here

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Coca Cola's New Aluminium Concept....quite funky we think!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New Starbucks Logo


What do you think?



Monday, January 3, 2011

Move over cupcakes...here come PIES!
Food Trends predict that 2011 is the year of the pie.

So in keeping with the trend for 2011, try these delicious Aubergine-Feta Phyllo Pies

Ingredients
1 large aubergine, halved lengthwise
Extra virgin olive oil for brushing
Coarse salt and ground black pepper
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/4 cup roughly chopped pistachios
1/4 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp red-pepper flakes
2 tbsp fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
5 sheets frozen phyllo pastry, thawed
1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius. Lightly brush cut sides of eggplant with oil and season with salt & pepper. Place eggplant, cut side down, on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Bake until tender, 20 minutes, then remove from oven. Reduce heat to 190 degrees celcius. When cool enough to handle, scrape flesh from skin and roughly chop. Transfer eggplant to a medium bowl and add feta, 3 tablespoons pistachios, coriander, red-pepper flakes and mint. Season with salt and pepper and stir to combine.
2. Lighly oil 6 standard muffin cups. Lay 1 sheet phyllo on a work surface and, with a pastry brush, lighly brush with oil. Stack 4 more phyllo sheets on top, brushing each with oil. Cut into 6 squares. Gently press one square into each muffin cup and fill with 1/4 cup eggplant mixture. Gently fold over corners of phyllo to enclose filling. Brush tops with oil and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon pistachios. Bake until golden, 30 minutes.
Serve warm with lightly dressed greens or assorted vegetables and hummus.