½ cup fresh orange juice minutes, remove. Sauté shallots and
1 quart water garlic for 3 minutes, sprinkle flour over,
2 teaspoons cumin seeds - toasted and add stock and cook, stirring until boiling.
ground in a mortar Add lamb, herbs and zest. Season to
1 can chickpeas - drained taste. Cover saucepan tightly, reduce heat
1½ teaspoons finely grated orange zest and simmer 30 minutes. Preheat oven
2 tablespoons chopped parsley to 450º F. Place lamb in a flat casserole
Heat olive oil in a large casserole. dish, arrange eggplant over lamb slightly
Working in 3 batches, add pork, season overlapping. Sprinkle with feta and
with salt and pepper and cook over Parmesan. Bake 25 minutes until golden.
moderately high heat until browned Garnish with extra herb leaves and serve
all over, about 9 minutes. Remove pork. with salad. Serves 4.
Add onion and garlic to casserole and
cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. I had a chance to visit with Celine
Add orange juice and simmer until and admired her enthusiasm for the new
reduced by half. Add water, cumin, life they’ve planned. Having sold their
and pork. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add previous steel cruising yacht in Asia and
chickpeas and heat through, season with upgraded to Touteau, they will be living
salt and pepper, stir in zest and parsley. aboard in Noumea, New Caledonia
Serve with rice. Serves 6. while they replenish the cruising kitty
and get the baby settled into shipboard
High winds buffeted the anchorage life. We hope to meet again next year in
over the next few days keeping us storm their marina.
bound. When we set our crew ashore
for an afternoon hike, we decided to Celine’s Tarte aux Poivrons -
invite Celine and Sebastian to dinner. Green Pepper Tart
Celine was finding the swinging aboard 1 cup flour
Touteau a little uncomfortable, but that 1 teaspoon yeast
may also be because she was pregnant. salt
We’d planned to meet crew on the beach ¼ cup water
at sunset, but there was no sign of Blake, ¼ cup olive oil
Toshiko or David, and no one ashore Combine flour, yeast and salt. Make
had seen them. If they didn’t appear a well and slowly mix in water and
by 9:00 pm we’d all start a search. Even oil. Knead to form dough. Press into a
though the island was totally flattened greased pizza pan.
by the hurricane about eight years ago,
the new coconut trees and shrubs have 5 peppers; green, red or yellow - diced
now created a thick jungle over rocky 1 onion
coral. ½ tablespoon olive oil
Just as I was serving our lamb 2 garlic cloves
casserole, our missing threesome 1 14oz can diced tomatoes
arrived, bringing tales of a lost trail and hot chili pepper to taste
adventures in bush whacking. 1 egg
Preheat oven to 450º F. Heat olive oil
Lamb, Feta, Eggplant Casserole in a pan and sauté peppers, onion and
2 tablespoons olive oil garlic until golden. Add tomatoes and
2 lbs lamb shoulder - cubed season with salt and pepper and chili.
8 shallots - peeled Remove from heat, add egg and mix
3 garlic cloves - crushed well. Top dough with pepper mixture
1½ tablespoons flour and bake for 20 minutes or until dough
3 cups beef stock is cooked.
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley If you want to check out one of
finely grated zest of 1 lemon Amanda’s exciting new upcoming seminars:
1 medium eggplant - thinly sliced January 12: Bluewater Cruising Vancouver,
6oz feta - crumbled January 19: Bluewater Cruising, Victoria,
¾ cup grated Parmesan January Chicago Strictly Sail, and
Heat oil in large heavy-based pan. February 3-6: Seattle Boat Show. Details
Working in 2 batches, brown lamb 3 at www.mahina.com
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