Kangaroo Lasagne That Tastes Like Pepperoni Pizza

 Well that's what Bunny said. It was OK. Points of difference were: 

For the mince mix, fry diced onions, add kangaroo mince, brown, add red wine, and then start adding things like: 

dried oregano and parsley, vegimite, vegeta, balsamic vinager, a spoon of sugar, liquid smoke, more red wine, salt to taste after all that, pepper...I think that's about it. Cook a fair bit, that roo needs some time. 

For the layers, butternut squash in flat thinnish slabs (3mm-ish), peeled aubergine in similar slabs, both microwaved with a splash of water, covered and salted until they won't bother anyone, and drain. 

For the sauce, regular white sauce with plenty of nutmeg, and layer it with cheddar (easier than melting the cheddar in the sauce). I also had some mozarella balls which I scattered but I'm sure this wasn't necessary. 

Pretty damn tasty. No pics, looked good. 

Beef Ribs in Red Wine, in Carrot and Pumkin Puree

 

These are cooked in the usual Gordon Ramsay way in the oven for three hours under foil, but this time after browning the ribs and removing from the pan initially, the wine got reduced a bit on the stovetop before putting the ribs in, covering, and ovening. Also for the gravy, added a bit of balsamic vinager, which gave a nice kick against the fat. 

The pumpkin and carrot puree and beans are exactly as you'd expect. Delicious. 

Stuffed Peppers Bunny-Style

 

Mince, add fried onions and carrots, mix, add cream and blue cheese (melted into it) and a bit of cheddar, as well as a bit of panko. Top off with a mozarella ball, cook about 40 odd minutes on about 180. This was different from the usual in tomato sauce because it concentrated the pepper flavour. Also really meaty because there's no rice. Jolly tasty. 

Cauliflower muffins... sort of

 This is a recipe I want to adapt. Insanely long-winded video about making the things, which sticks to Aristotelian unities by doing the cooking in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydnkt9IT5xE 

I tried this (more or less) but skipped the part where you hand-craft your own foil muffin tins, because... well. Anyway the cauliflower stuck hopelessly to the muffin tin, and also it kind of imploded into a homogenous mess, but it was still tasty. The basic principle is OK, I'll post again when I've sorted it out. 

Method:

Blitz cauliflower, add egg, oat flour, seasoning, leave to sit, then fashion into a 'pastry' shell (in your hand-made foil moulds), bake until firm.

Create a bacon-onion-mushroom-egg-cheese-roux mix for a filling, pop into your shells, and bake again. 

Bunny's Awesome Pumpkin Lasagne

 We have found that low-carb 'lasagne' is particularly good with slices of pumpkin (or butternut squash) substituted for the pasta. Also, gorgonzola (just a bit) really gives the mince a great flavour. I believe Bunny does his without white sauce, but with a good bit of cheddar and possibly parmezan as well. So it's just the mince sauce, the cheeses, and the pre-microwave-steamed slices of butternut. Extremely good. Not quite keto but pretty low-carb. 

Vaguely Middle Easter Chicken and Salad

This is the one I nearly blew the house up with my turning the BBQ gas cylinder the wrong way. Anyway, started it on the BBQ but it was frankly a pain, plus the gar ran out so finished in the oven under the grill. Tasty, and easier. Meat and salad combo. 

For the chicken: 

Bone the whole chicken ahead of time and soak for a few hours in velveting mix (a couple of spoons of salt and bicarb in soaking water, in a tub in the fridge). 

Rinse, pat dry, and apply Moroccan rub (or Baharat or whatever you're using) and in this instance a quarter of a preserved lemon, finely diced, applied to the innder side. 

Flatten it out with a BBQ-mesh thing so you can flip it - or just lay out on a rack. Grill. Flip. etc. 

For the salad: 

Baby spinach, grilled pumpkin, grilled courgette, chopped mint, pepitas. 

For the dressing: 

Point of difference - Spoon (or to taste) almond butter, good amount of lemon juice to loosen it up, salt and pepper, couple of spoons of Greek yoghurt. This was a pretty zingy sauce that went well with the chicken. Apply liberally. 

Cut up the chicken prior to serving. 

Bunny's elusive almond hamburger rolls

 We don't have a recipe for this, it's a placeholder to try and find it. A really simple thing where you have egg, almond meal, and some baking powder and put it in a ramekin in the microwave and less than a minute later you have a slightly crunchy, but weirdly morish low-carb 'hamburger' bun. I tried it and it turned into more of a wet omelette - guessing I didn't put enough almond in. Even the wet omelette was sort of useable for a mini-pizza.