Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Pesto Recipe Video!


Hey pesto! 2 minutes and its all good to go! Use it as a spread, a pasta sauce, a dip, in a lasagna, as a dressing for steamed veggies it goes on and on! And best of all it's so simple and quick to make so especially satisfying to the novice cook!

Ingredients List
Any soft green herbs, spinach or watercress or all of the above
garlic
Salt and pepper
Pine nuts or any of your favorite nuts
Extra virgin olive oil
Parmesan or other hard cheese (optional)

Top tips
A must buy for the kitchen it's worth getting a hand blender and if you can spending a bit extra to get the extra attachments!
To store in the fridge scrape down and flatten into a container and drizzle a little extra oil on the top to seal the pesto and stop it going brown. Then use a lid or cling film. will last for up to 10 days!
Add as much garlic and nuts as you fancy, play around with it and have fun.

And remember if you have and questions, suggestions or problems email me! alex@yourchefis.com 

Restoring faith in healthy eating with this tasty Salmon and Veggies recipe!

It seems we are at a time of all or nothing, in so many things especially food and eating.  Everyone telling us opposites about the food we eat, common sense has been thrown out with the bath water and we get bombarded with mind numbing adverts about "low fat" and "healthy" and "steaming in the microwave!" Well enough is enough, if you think ready meals are the answer think again! it's time to get in the kitchen and cook. And I'm not talking about slaving away for hours either! This latest video shows you how to cook fish and steam veggies and will give you skills that you can use in many other dishes, plus it will only take a few minutes and be far more satisfying than any ready meal will ever be! And I haven't even started talking about the health benefits of it yet! Which actually I'm not going to on this occasion! You'll see for yourself after eating how you feel!

Ingredients:
Sesame oil

2 Fillets of Wild Alaskan salmon or any fish you fancy!  (keep it sustainable tho!
Fennel and cumin seeds

Sliced Onions
Sliced celery
1 garlic clove grated
1 piece if ginger peeled and grated
frozen peas
Chopped up green veg (broccoli, cabbage or what ever you fancy!)
Baby spinach

Coriander and parsley roughly chopped
udo's Oil  
Bragg Liquid Aminos
Salt and pepper

Please email me any  feedback, questions or suggestions you have for future videos or recipes!
alex@yourchefis.com
Happy Cooking!