Spiced Prawns

Fry one sliced onion, in olive oil until golden. Stir in 2tsp grated fresh ginger and 1/2tsp ground cumin, and 1/2tsp of crushed coriander seeds. After a minute stir in 1/2tsp of turmeric, pinch of dried chilli flakes and 250g raw prawns. Stir for a few minutes until the prawns turn pink. Add 250ml (approx) of roast tomato sauce (see post below), and heat. Serve on a bed of steamed rice, sprinkled with coriander.

Roast Tomato Sauce

Whilst its lovely, to pour over cook books, or foodie magazines, and create something delicious and new for dinner, sometime you just can't beat some pasta and a good sauce!

Having spent the last six weeks mainly eating carb free, today was a day for a treat -pasta, with roast tomato sauce.

Roast Tomato Sauce

1kg tomatoes halved

4 garlic gloves roughly chopped

2tsp caster sugar

2tbsp tomato puree

2tbsp olive oil
handful of fresh basil leaves

Preheat the oven to Gas 5, spread the tomatoes in a large roasting tin. Sprinkle with sugar, olive oil, garlic and puree. Roast for one hour until soft and slightly charred in places.

Scatter with basil leaves, crushing the tomatoes down with a fork to form a sauce. I prefer mine to be a littler more refined, so give it a quick whizz in the blender.

Simple and delicious.

This sauce will keep in the fridge for up to four days and freezes well.

Apricot and Almond Traybake

250g butter
225g golden caster sugar
275g self raising flour
2tsp baking powder
finely grated zest of 1 orange and 2tbsp orange juice
75g ground almonds
5 medium eggs lightly beaten
225g chopped ready to eat apricots

Preheat the oven to gas mark 4. Grease a 20.5x33com tin and baseline.

Put all of the ingredients except the apricots into the bowl of a free standing mixer and mix until thouroughly combined.

Fold in the apricots. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin, smooth the surface with a pallet knife. You might want to sprinkle the surface with some flaked almonds.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until risen and golden.

Cool in the tin and cut into squares.

Enjoy!

This is increadibly easy to make, and tastes out of this world. I liketo think its healthy because it contains fruit!!