Seasonal Ideas
Dinner Party
As the nights are getting colder the thought of the BBQ is no longer appealing. Why not invite some friends around for a fuss free dinner party. With the menu below your friends will be impressed without you spending hours in the kitchen.
Nibbles
Chilli Dip
1 cup pumpkin seeds - toasted in oven for 15 mins 
1-2 tsp chilli paste or 1 Tbsp sweet chilli sauce
2 cloves garlic
2 Tbsp fresh parsley or coriander
1/2 tsp ground cumin
Juice of 1 lemon
2 Tbsp tomato paste
1/4 cup tomato puree
1/4 cup Garlic or Chilli Infused Olive Oil
Salt and pepper
Place all ingredients into a food processor and process until well combined. Taste and season if necessary. Serve with crackers or some crusty bread.
Starter
Carrot and Cumin Soup
2 Tbsp Garlic Infused Rice Bran Oil 
2 tsp cumin seeds
2 medium onions, diced
1 clove garlic
½ red chilli, sliced
1 tsp Manuka Smoked Sea Salt
5 carrots, peeled and chopped
3 cups chicken or vegetable stock
Heat oil in a saucepan and add cumin seeds, cook until fragrant. Add onion, garlic, chilli and salt and sauté for 2 minutes, then add carrot. Stir and cover and leave to cook over a low heat for 10 minutes until the vegetables have softened but not browned. Add stock and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the carrots are tender. Blend to a puree and serve.
Main
Panfried Fish on Vegetable Fritters with Beetroot Relish
Fritters
1 potato, peeled and grated
1 zucchini, grated
1/2 carrot, peeled and grated
1/3 onion finely diced
1 egg
1/3 cup flour
1 Tbsp chopped fresh herbs
Butter Flavour Infused Rice Bran Oil
Manuka Smoked Sea Salt
Comine ingredients in a mixing bowl then shallow fry in the oil of your choice until crisp and golden then sprinkle with manuka salt.
Fish
4 gurnard fillets
Flour seasoned with Lemon Infused Flaky Salt and cracked black pepper
Lemon Infused Rice Bran Oil
Lightly coat the fish in seasoned flour, shake off any excess and pan fry in a little of the lemon oil until cooked.
Beetroot Relish
1 onion
3 Tbsp Butter Flavour Infused Rice Bran Oil
1 1/2 Tbsp fennel seeds
1 large beetroot, cut into thin strips
1/2 cup water
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp Cabernet Sauvignon Vinegar
Finely slice the onion and sautè without browning in the butter oil and fennel seeds in a heavy bottomed pan. Add the beetroot, water, salt, freshly ground black pepper and the vinegar and cook over a low heat until the beetroot has softened and almost all the liquid has evaporated (it will take about half an hour). Cool.
To serve, place two vegetable fritters on a warmed plate and top with fish fillets and the beetroot relish, lemon wedges and a rocket salad.
Dessert
Apple Tarts
1 ½ sheets ready prepared puff pastry
2 Tbsp Butter Flavour Infused Rice Bran Oil
1 Tbsp sugar
3 apples, cored and thinly sliced
½ tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp Sour Apple Schnapps
Dinner for two?
Love the idea of a fancy dinner with your loved one, but struggle to find a restaurant with an intimate atmosphere that doesn't take your next years mortgage payments? Why not stay at home and enjoy a delicious dinner with your choice of music and no interruptions. Here are some simple but delicious menu ideas.
Simple and stress free romantic dinner
Garlic
bread skewers
Baked
salmon
Baked
rosemary potato wedges
Seasonal vegetables
Butterscotch
chocolate pudding with
Boozy
berries
Drinks match: French
75 before dinner then Rigid
Richard with dessert
Something a little more complicated
Pear,
pecorino and walnut salad
Chicken
steaks with green olive salsa
Green salad
Baked Potatoes
Cassis
white chocolate cheesecake
Drinks Match: Kir
Royale before dinner then Black
Forest with dessert
