Cooking Fresh Prawns

Learn two delicious and simple recipes for cooking fresh prawns and an extra recipe involved vegetables and maple syrup mmmmm!



Recipe# 1 - Garlic Butter Prawns

* Prawns
* Butter
* Garlic
* Coarse salt (optional)
* Fresh herbs (optional)

Recipe# 2 - Coconut Prawns

* Prawns marinated in:
* Coconut milk
* Coriander
* Ginger (grated)
* S + P

and dipped in grated coconut.

Recipe# 3 - Maple Balsamic Vegetables:

* Veggies (eggplant, onion, zucchini, red pepper) or whatever you have
* Olive oil
* Maple syrup
* Balsamic Vinegar

Slice vegetables into baking pan, drizzle the ingredients on top and then bake at 375F for 20-30 minutes or until soft and glazed looking.

Music by: Robert Johnson

How to Kill a Live Prawn

It's fresh seafood season in Victoria, BC. So what happens when you go down to the fisherman's wharf and buy your prawns as fresh as can be ? (Meaning they are still alive when you bring them home..and yes they move).

There are two ways that you can prepare your live prawns for cooking. Either keep them alive until the moment of cooking, or de-head them first.

In this video watch Heidi and Gui as they prepare live prawns for the cookin'! It may not be our most favorite thing to do, but fresh is most certainly best where seafood is concerned.



Music: Robert Johnson

Zucchini Rescue-Part 3_Finale

Want to know the fate of our wee zucchini plant? Wait no longer....



Music by: Adriana Calcanhotto

How to Foliar Feed your Plants

Watch this short clip and learn how to foliar feed your plants with the seaweed fertilizer that you just made.

Fertilizer mix:
2/3 water
1/3 seaweed fertilizer



Music by: Robert Carlos

Ginger-Tofu and Spinach Bowl

Ingredients
(serves 2)

* organic medium firm tofu (or whatever firmness you prefer)
* fresh baby spinach
* garlic
* ginger
* soy sauce
* olive oil

Delicious Toppings

* sliced tomatoes
* pumpkin seeds
* green onions

Instructions

1. Dice garlic & ginger and slice your tofu into cubes.
2. In a pan with olive oil, sautee your garlic, ginger and then add tofu.
3. Let them sautee until the tofu is brown and semi-crunchy.
4. Add your spinach and a little bit of water into the pan.
5. Cover your pan with a lid and let the spinach get soft.
6. Once everything is cooked, add soy sauce to taste and garnish with sliced tomatoes, pumpkin seeds and green onions.

Optional: Serve on rice or quinoa

Gorgeous Garden Salad

mmm mmm mmmmmm!

High in protein, high in antioxidants and high in deliciousness too!
As much as possible use the freshest ingredients either from your garden or a local farmers market.

Ingredients:
(Serves 2)

* 2 medium tomatoes (or a dozen cherry tomatoes) - here we used orange hothouse tomatoes
* thinly sliced mozzarella
* fresh garden herbs (your choice) - we used green onion & thyme
* boiled organic free range egg (optional and really yummy!)

Dressing

* olive oil
* Italissima Crema di Balsamica Rosso (you can use regular balsamic as well)
* pepper
* coarse salt

Enjoy!

How to Make Seaweed Fertilizer

On location in Victoria, BC, join Heidi as she takes you through the simple steps of building one of the most organic fertilizers that you can feed to your plants: SEAWEED!

Seaweed is full of trace minerals and micro-nutrients that nourish your plants, helps to protect your plant from fungus and much more!

Add this seaweed fertilizer to your plants feeding routine to create a balanced diet.

You can also add some diluted fertilizer mix to spray bottle (1/3 fertilizer - 2/3 water) and spray the foliage of your plants. This is called foliar feeding and helps to green up your plants and help them out when they are not looking to well.



Music by: Jorge Ben

Zucchini Rescue Part 2_How to make a windprotector

In this video, learn the babka-way of making an arts'n'crafts style windprotector for your baby plants.

Tools:
* Electrical tape
* Popsicle sticks



Music by: James Brown

Zucchini Rescue-Part 1_How to tie your plant

Have your plants been damaged by the wind? Learn how to tie them up using a little bit of string and some chopsticks.



Music by: MC Yogi

Banana Flax Smoothie

Baby Babkas Hamming it Up at Breakfast!



Check this out for more information about the nutritional benefits of flaxseed oil.

Music by the XX

Can beet this !

This is a simple and delicious soup, courtesy of Gordon Ramsy's "Maze" cookbook. It is relatively fast soup to make,provides excellent colour and preps the palette delicately for more exciting dishes.

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