Rasberry & Lime Ice-cream

A real summer favourite, or if its not summer where you are now, then just a real favourite.

Ingredients:-

• 250g raspberries (fresh of course if you can get them but from frozen will do too)
• 100g sugar
• 50ml lime juice
• 50ml cream
• 500ml Greek yoghurt

Directions:-
Heat the fruit and add the sugar. Stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Gently mash the fruit with a potato masher and add the lime juice. Allow to cool then add the cream and Greek yoghurt.

Stir well and transfer to a plastic container and into the freezer. Remove from the freezer and mix well every few hours until the ice-cream is set. To enjoy the ice-cream at its best remove from the freezer and allow to thaw for ~30 minutes before lashing into it!

BBQ Peach Parcel

Great on the BBQ. Prepare these parcels in advance, pop on the BBQ when your main course is finished and the peaches will be ready in about 1/2 an hour.

Ingredients:-
• Six peaches, halved with the stones removed
• 4 Table spoons of Gran Marnier or other sweet liquor
• 4 Table spoons brown sugar
• 4 Table spoons raisins or sultanas

Directions:-
Heat the liquor and add the sugar. Stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Add the raisins and put aside for a while to allow the raisins soak up the sweet liquor.

Halve the peaches and remove the stones. Prepare squares of aluminium foil with one peach per piece of foil. Spoon the sweet raisin into the peach pit and close over the foil parcel - don't wrap too tightly as you want the peach to poach.

Pop on the BBQ for about 1/2 hour. Serve hot, delicious with ice-cream.

Simple Fruit Smoothie

Fruit is a rich source of vitamins and minerals – not to mention the fact that it tastes great. Smoothies are one way to eat more fruit and they only take a few minutes to make. It’s also a fun way to get children interested in fruit and involved in the kitchen.

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 2+ pieces of large fruit washed and peeled
• ½ pot (62g) of low fat diet yoghurt (natural or flavoured)
  
• 90 ml low fat milk
  
• Optional: 4 ice cubes or 90 ml unsweetened fruit juice
  

If you don't want to include milk or yoghurt in your smoothie, just add more fruit instead!

Why not try out some of the following fruits:

• Banana and Berry smoothie – add 80g of fresh or frozen berries and 1 banana
  
• Strawberry smoothie – add 160g fresh or frozen strawberries
  
• Pineapple smoothie – add 160g fresh or canned (stored in own juice) pineapple
  

Method

1. Make sure all the ingredients are chilled before use.
2. Wash and peel fruit
3. Blend fruit, yoghurt, milk and juice together using a hand held blender or a smoothie maker until creamy
4. Add ice cubes and blend again

Banana Cinammon Muffins

Quick and delicious muffins

These are soft and crumbly and packed with healthy fruit!



Ingredients:

• 4oz caster sugar
  
• 1tbsp baking powder
  
• 9oz plain flour
  
• 3oz cold butter
  
• 1 egg
  
• 3fl 0z milk
  
• 6oz bananas
  
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 200c.  Sieve the flour into a large bowl and add the remaining dry ingredients and mix.  Grate in the butter and then with your finger tips rub the butter in until you have breadcrumb like texture.

In a separate bowl mash the banana with the egg and the milk.  It doesn't have to be smooth, in fact lumpy makes better textured muffins!

Add to the flour and mix together.  Spoon into paper cases and bake for 25 minutes until muffins are golden brown.  Cool before serving.