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If I have ripe mangos, this is the recipe I use them for.

One of the things I least like doing is weighing out ingredients for most/ all of my savoury dishes I only weight the items if I’m sharing the recipe, for the rest of the time I do it by eye.

As for something like this I couldn’t think of anything worse than weighing the items or using proper measuring cups, when IM doing it myself I just lash it in but for now I will use a simple cupboard cup shown below

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of oats
• ½ cup of Chia
• A good spoon of honey
• ½ a cap of vanilla essence
• 2 ½ cups of any nut milk

 

For the mango bit

• 1 mango ( peeled &cut into small pieces)
• 2 cups of Greek yogurt
• A good spoon of Honey (as sweet as you like)
• 1-2 cups of any nut milk
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice

Method

1. Combine Oats, Chia, honey, vanilla & milk in a bowl mix well with a fork.
2. If it stodgy add more milk or you can add water, you want a slightly runny consistency
3. Leave the oat mix aside
4. Blitz all ingredients for “Mango bit” until its smooth
5. In a jar or bowl put the oat/chia mix on the bottom and top with mango
6. Leave it in the fridge overnight or eat straight away
7. Top with something crunchy. E.g. Pomegranate seeds, granola clusters

Its so simple and really delicious, you can also mix the blitzed Mango through the oat mix and eat it like that. It lasts for 3 days in the fridge.

 

 

Sweet or Scented Geraniums are in my opinion one of the nicest plants to have in your garden.

The flowers they produced (although they only have a few) are edible and they make a pretty garnish for salads, desserts etc. The leaves are used for their fragrance and flavour. Different species of sweet geraniums differ in flavour.

Ingredients:

• 100g of sugar
• 250ml of water
• 6 Sweet Geranium leaves
• 1 Vanilla pod scraped
• Juice of 3 lemons & 2 limes/ Oranges/ grapefruit
• Bottle of fizzy water

Method:

• Put sugar & water in a pot and let it come to boil
• Turn down to a simmer until all sugar is dissolved
• Scrape in the vanilla pod and turn off the heat
• Add the geranium leaves and leave too steep until cool
• Juice the lemons, limes or oranges
• When the syrup* is cool strain it and mix with the juice
• Finally get a big jug full of ice pour in the lemonade followed by a bottle of fizzy water

Garnish your water with wedges of lemons/oranges and maybe a few geranium flowers or leaves

 

Note:

*You can use as much or as little sugar syrup as you like, depending on how sweet you like it.

The sweet geranium syrup keeps for ages in the fridge and it’s a really nice addition to a fruit salad or added into some overnight oats.