This is a Spanish mushroom recipe that will please any lovers of mushrooms in your household.
It serves around 6 people, and is good as a side dish or a main meal depending on portion sizes.

Mushrooms With Sherry and Walnuts Recipe

Ingredients:

Two Tbls butter
2 tbsp sunflower oil
Half a pound (3 cup) mushrooms
half c. walnuts (chopped and toasted)
2 Tbs sherry or fortified wine
One Tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated orange/lemon peel
Two Tbs parsley (chopped)
Salt

Method:

In a skillet or frying pan melt the butter with oil.

Increase the heat to medium/hot and put the mushrooms in the skillet, cooking until they are tender.
Now add the sherry, lemon juice, walnuts and citrus peel. Saute the mix for a minute or so, mixing well to ensure the mushrooms are well coated with the tasty mix.

Add salt to taste, and sprinkle with chopped parsley just before serving.

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You can check the fruit and vegetables you are purchasing yourself, and verify that you are purchasing just the freshest vegetables, packed with nutrients.

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This is a tasty and unusual cake recipe, that the whole family will enjoy.

An Unusual Cake Recipe With Zucchini and Chocolate

Ingredients:

Half C. to One cup chocolate chips
3 courgettes, about 6″ long, cut into shreds (approximately two cps)
1 tsp cinnamon spice
two half a cup plain white flour
3 fresh eggs
0.5 Cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla flavour
0.5 Cup ordinary sugar
1 cupful brown sugar
A half cup of canola oil
Half C. buttermilk
four Tablespoons cocoa
One tsp salt
2 t. cooking soda

Instructions:

In advance, set your oven so it preheats to 325 Farenheit.

Grease a 9″ x 13″ cake tin and place to the side.

In a large mixing bowl,mix both the sugars, butter and oil.
Add eggs, the buttermilk and the vanilla and mix thoroughly.

With a sifter or sieve, sieve the cocoa, flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt to make one.

Add the powder mix to the wet mix and stir well

Stir in courgette and stir well.

Pour it all into the cake tin and spinkle the top with chocolate chips.

Put into the oven and cook for 45 mins.

Allow it to cool a little, then turn out on wire rack.

Why Bother to Cook At Home?

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If you don’t like the idea of industrialised farming, and want to use only organic foodstuffs, you can easily do so. More than that, you can hand check the fruit and vegetables you are buying yourself, and make sure you are buying just the freshest ingredients, in perfect condition.

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