Sexy Valentine Food Prawn Mango Avo and Asparagus Salad with Goats Cheese

Feb 14th

Happy Days people……here is a continuation of my sexy food theme for Valentine’s Day. Please pop over there and read all the information that I have already given for aphrodisiac foods and essential oils. I am an old romatic at heart. My lifetime Valentine and I have shared 37 Valentine’s Days already. Of course, to have a lifetime Valentine the sentiments of Valentines Day should be carried through into every day of our lives together and I think that we have achieved that pretty well. We have had our times of not getting on well. All couples experience that. But we have grown closer and more in love through them, and despite them all. I have a wonderful forever Valentine. Feet of clay, imperfect, but with a heart full of love and caring for me. I love you MY Valentine….thank you for sharing your heart and life with me xxxxx

PRAWN MANGO AVO & ASPARAGUS SALAD WITH GOATS CHEESE AND MICRO GREENS

300g Prawns – shelled with tails left intact, deveined and briefly dropped into boiling water until pink

1 Mango – peeled stoned and sliced lengthwise

1 Avocado Pear – stoned and sliced thinly then each slice cut into halves

½ Red Pepper – deseeded and thinly sliced lengthwise

Small bag of Rocket

100g Asparagus – washed, bottoms cut off then dropped into boiling water for 3 minutes refresh in cold

50g Blueberries

½ Chilli – deseeded and finely sliced

½ Cucumber  sliced into thin ribbons with a vegetable peeler

Micro Rocket Greens

1 Red Spring Onion – finely sliced at an angle

100g Goats Cheese Chevin Fairview

Method:

Place the mango slices on the plate then add  prawns

Add the rest of the ingredients randomly

Sprinkle over the sliced chilli and micro greens

Drizzle generously with the vinaigrette and grind over a bit of black pepper

Serve with crusty country bread to mop up the delicious juices

 

CITRUS VINAIGRETTE

90ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil

½ ClemenGold – finely grated zest (use orange if you don’t have ClemenGold)

20ml ClemenGold Juice (use the juice that dribbles out while segmenting for the salad)

15ml Lemon Juice

10ml Honey

5ml Dijon Mustard

½ Clove Garlic – crushed or finely grated

Small piece of fresh Ginger – peeled and finely grated

Few Mint Leaves – finely chopped

½ Red Chilli – deseeded and very finely chopped

½ Vanilla Bean – split and seeds scraped out

Salt Flakes and Freshly Cracked Black Pepper

Method:

Whisk all together in a small glass bowl and set aside until needed

 

We enjoyed our Valentines picnic with some JC Le Roux bubbly, I dropped some fresh raspberries into each glass. Such a beautiful floral scent and flavour, released by the raspberries, permeated the bubbles. Le sigh! Le Good Life! :)

Our dessert was simple – chocolates, strawberries, blueberries and some ice cold black seedless grapes with the rest of the bubbles!

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone out there. And I include all the singles too. Don’t limit love to only one day a year….love is so precious it deserves a HUGE place in our everyday lives. Not only romantic love, but that all encompassing, unconditional, accepting, working love that is so essential to living joyous, fulfilled and peaceful lives!

browniegirl xx

 “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never dies”1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

PS I am going into hospital tomorrow morning for more follow up surgery to the procedure that I underwent in June 2011. I see lots of soup, smoothies, jelly, ice cream and yoghurt in my foreseeable future. But this salad was a wonderful send-off. Catch you all on the flip side.

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Originally blogged here as part of a series of posts for ClemenGold 

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