Tip to liven up vegetables

I’m a bit of a late comer to enjoying peas and broad beans, but these two vegetables are fantastic! Mind you, I came to enjoy them puréed with a splash of cream so maybe that’s the trick for first time tasters.

Catherine H sent in this delicious tip. Pop a tin of Wattie’s fruit into the freezer overnight. Take off the top and bottom with can opener and push the frozen fruit and juice out of the can with wooden spoon. Use a stick blender, food processor or blender and whiz the frozen fruit into a delicious sorbet. Dairy free and fat free too.

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Trudy D has a great tip to use up the drained peach juice in this recipe; freeze juice from drained Wattie’s fruit in ice-cube trays & add to cold water to jazz it up your drinks.
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Few things make me feel summer has really arrived like fresh stone fruit do, not surprising then they are also known as summerfriut. No stone fruit are native to New Zealand. Peaches, nectarines and plums all originated in China, with another variety of plum coming from middle Europe and cherries are native to the Caspian-Black Sea region. How exotic. We can possibly thank James Cook, or an early whaling gang for New Zealand’s first peach orchard planted around 1840.

Hopefully your garden has been as prolific as mine and you have enjoyed a great season. But if like me you have had an excess of certain vegetables like courgettes our recent recipe Courgette & Tuna Rosti with Garlic Mayo will help with the overflow. This will deal to a few of them and also type the word courgette into our recipe search to find a lot more recipes on the site using courgettes.

Beryl L suggested jazzing up potato by mashing it with butter then adding a drained can of Wattie’s Whole Kernel Corn. Yum.
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When stewing apples use the juice of oranges off your tree instead of water. Tastes good and you do not need to use sugar for sweetening. Thanks Val C for this tip.
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Wendy has sent us this tip: Make and bake little pastry cases in advance and keep in the freezer. When you need to take a plate, fill with creamy or chocolatey filling and fruit while still frozen – this helps keep the tartlets cold when transporting.
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Nothing for lunch, so you rush next door to the takeaway shop or grab something late afternoon from the vending machine? We all seem to be so busy these days that we either miss lunch or grab something from the local café or takeaway shop that’s not very healthy and costs far too much! But with just a bit of planning you can prepare yourself a lunch that’s tasty, healthy and will save you some dollars.