Check it out! Isn't this dish just a feast for the eyes? Believe it or not, I found the basic recipe in the quarterly magazine of our heath insurer! Good for them, good job!
I tried it and found it was 'missing' something. So I added a couple of things, I left out a couple of things, and here it is! All pimped up and ready to become your favourite 'make-ahead' recipe!
Enjoy!
Ingredients
(for 4 persons)
•tiny piece of ginger root (approx. 2 cm), rasped
•2 spring onions, sliced in thin rings
•1 red chili pepper (no seeds, chopped)
•4 pieces of white fish (approx.200 g each)
•toothpicks
•4 banana leaves
•1 tbs tamari sauce
•1 tsp of lemon zest
•1 tsp of sesame oil
•2 tsps of virgin olive oil
What you do
•preheat the oven to 175°C
•mix all the ingredients in a bowl keeping fish and banana leaves to the side
•now place each piece of fish in the middle of a banana leave and scoop 1/4 of the mixture on top of the fish
•close the banana leave using toothpicks
•place all the packages in a oven proof fish
•cook for aprox 30 min.
Notes
If you can find big enough banana leaves where you live, it is best to be able to close the leave entirely, making a little package :-D
Living where we live (Western Europe), drinking (a lot of) alcohol is 'normal'. Actually if you don't join in, people ask you what is wrong with you, if you are on a strict diet or are taking medicine.
It is so 'main stream' that none of us even think 'we' drink a lot. But most of us do, I know that for a fact.
So what is a lot, right? 'A lot' is different for everybody. But if you wake up feeling even a light headache, with less energy than usual, your stomach is maybe a bit upset and your intestines inflamed ... In my book, that sounds like your body is at least a bit intoxicated...
I can feel like that after even after 2 glasses of wine.. Yep, I am a light weight.
Putting up a fight against drinking social pressure is very difficult, I know. Specially in countries where when you go out, the only alternative to having an alcoholic drink is having Coca-Cola or Sprite!
So if you decide to drink less or not to drink alcohol at all (for a while or for ever) it could be difficult at first. So you need to arm yourself with some creativity. Here is a concoction that will pamper your body and I can guarantee your 'alcoholic drinking' buddies will want to have, when they see you having it!
Ingredients
•1/3 pineapple juice, 1/3 coconut water, 1/3 (sparkling) mineral water
•1 thin slice of lime
•1 fresh mint twig
•crushed ice
Note
Use organic produce. Your body will thank you for it, eventually :-D
When I first started collecting my recipes, notes and findings under Cornucopia -I don't really consider myself a 'blogger' but rather a 'researcher'- I truly thought that what I was sharing was incredibly useful. The information was out there (I had found it), but lay hidden and was seen as 'alternative'.
Lots has changed since then and 'healthiness' had become a very big business. This is not all bad. We are all far better informed and more conscious about what we eat and what it does to our body and overall health.
Established chefs with big names and high end restaurants have changed their beat, paying heed to popular demand. Others like Yotam Ottolenghi had a mayor break through, just because we wanted 'pureness' and began to frown at 'processed'.
So here is one of my favourite Yotam Ottolenghi's salad. I am adding it to Cornucopia, because it belongs to my collection of 'culinary gems'. It is one of those recipes I like to prepare over and over again. Hopefully you will love it as much as I do and will help you out if you are looking for guilt-free inspiration...
Ingredients
(for 4 persons/side dish)
•600g of multi coloured (cherry) tomatoes, diced
•1 (medium) red onion, chopped
•1 (medium) red pepper, diced
•2 garlic cloves, crushed
•1/2 tsp ground allspice
•2 tsp white wine/cider vinegar
•1 1/2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
•60 ml virgin olive oil
•seeds of 1 medium pomegranate (170 g)
•1 tbsp fresh oregano leaves or 1 tsp of dry oregano leaves
What you do
•arrange the tomatoes, with the onion, pomegranate and red pepper in a (flat) salad bowl
•whisk the garlic, allspice, vinegar, molasses and oil into a vinaigrette
•pour the vinaigrette over the vegetables and now sprinkle the oregano over it.
