pear cake

Serves 12

Poppy bakes…

1. Preheat oven to 180º and prepare a cake tin.
   
   
2. In a mixing bowl combine
   250g gluten-free plain flour,
   1/2 teaspoon baking powder and
   pinch of celtic sea salt.
   
   
3. Place
   250g coconut sugar into Thermomix and mill 20 seconds / speed 10.
   
4. Insert butterfly whisk; then add
   250g nuttelex and mix 3 minutes / speed 3.
   
   
5. Add
   4 eggs,
   1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract and
   zest of 1/4 lemon on speed 3 until combined.
   
   
6. Pour the wet mixture into the dry, and combine using a spatula.
   
   
7. Gently fold through
   3 packham pears, peeled and diced.
   
   
8. Pour mixture into the cake tin and bake for 50 minutes.

chicken, beetroot + pear salad

Serves 4

Poppy cooks…

1. In a small saucepan (or rice cooker), boil
   1.5 cups white quinoa in
   3 cups hot filtered water until the quinoa is cooked, then set aside.
   
   
2. Grill
   500g chicken tenderloins with
   celtic sea salt + cracked black pepper.
   
   
3. On a serving platter or individual plates, layout
   180g baby spinach, roughly sliced topped with quinoa, chicken,
   pear, diced and
   250g "Love Beets" baby beetroot, diced.
   
   
4. Lightly whisk together
   1 tablespoon red wine vinegar and
   1 tablespoon olive oil, and season with 
   pinch of celtic sea salt + crack black pepper. Drizzle dressing over the salad.

In this picture compared to the previous one I tossed the salad and omitted the chicken which I had instead served on the side with my home made herbed mayonnaise.