Highlights January

               

Pomegranate Molasses Salmon

For the salmon

mix 1 tbsp of pomegranate molasses
with 1 tbsp runny honey
and 1 tbsp soya sauce

brush the salmon and place in the oven at 180c to cook ever few mins while preparing the salad baste over more pomegranate mix to build up the layers on the fish until the fish is cooked.

reserve a tbsp of the sauce for the dressing

For the salad 

fine slice the following
red pepper
Chinese lettuces
ice burg lettuces
spring onion
mange tout
coriander

all the pomegranate fruits from 1 pomegranate

1/2 portion of jasmine rice per plate.

For the dressing

blend
mirin
sesame oil
fish sauce
1 tbsp of the pomegranate sauce from above

Ice gem garden decorations

Baby its cold outside, so the girls and i are taking advantage of the cold and creating ice gems to decorate the garden.  After foraging around the garden we were surprised to find there are still pretty and colourful things to be found this time of year.

 Using a collection different size and shapes of pots we placed a sparing amount of water in them and let them freeze for 30 mins and then arranged the foliage on the ice adding another sparing amount of water and letting set again, we then repeated this one more time making up a nice half cm piece of ice.

 After using a metal kitchen skewer dipped in hot water this melted and hole perfectly for threading some twine so we could hang them from the trees outside.