Sausage Tropicana

Well, it has an exotic name! Anne.

440g can Golden Circle Pineapple Pieces or Crushed Pineapple, 3 cups boiled, salted, drained rice, 450g cooked beef or pork sausages, 1 tblspn brown sugar, 1 tblspn vinegar, salt pepper, mustard.

 

Place the rice in a well-buttered casserole. Arrange the browned sausages over the top. Drain the pineapple and to it add the brown sugar, vinegar and seasonings. Spoon the seasoned pineapple over the sausages. Moisten with a little of the pineapple syrup. Dot with butter. Bake in a moderate oven about 20 minutes.

 

Sweet-Sour Fish

 

1 jar Golden Circle Sweet-Sour Sauce, 1 whole snapper (about 1 kilo) 1 small can mushrooms in butter sauce, 1 cup cooked rice, 1 chopped onion, herbs to taste, ½ tspn grated lemon rind, 1 tsp chopped parsley, salt and pepper, 1 tblspn butter.

Lightly fry onion in butter, then stir in rice, mushrooms, herbs, lemon rind, parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Fill fish cavity and secure with small skewers. Place fish on buttered baking dish, sprinkle with melted butter. Bake in moderate oven until just tender. Heat sweet-Sour Sauce and spoon over fish before serving.

 

Ruby's Sweet Sour Fish

 

That was one delicious fish. I used a fresh trout, couldn’t find a snapper. The stuffing was OK but would have been better with fresh mushrooms rather than tinned. 

The sweet sour sauce I made the same as the one for the duck (see our blog 28th March) but didn’t cook it for so long to keep the fresh colours. The sauce had ginger, onion, carrot, green capsicum, Golden Circle canned pineapple of course, pineapple juice, cider vinegar, chilli and tomato sauce. 

 

The stuffing was as the recipe. The fish was only one pound (500g thereabouts) so there is plenty of rice and sauce left over.  After stuffing the raw fish I cooked it in the oven for 15 minutes, Ann.

Ann's Sweet Sour Fish

 

Steak Tropic Style

440g can Golden Circle Sliced Pineapple, required number of steaks, butter, brown sugar.

Grill or deep-fry steaks till done. When turning steaks, add drained pineapple slices to grilling rack. Brush with melted butter, sprinkle with brown sugar and continue cooking until pineapple slices are richly glazed. If deep-frying the steaks, remove to warm plate when done. Place pineapple slices in pan, sprinkle with brown sugar and cook until glazed. Then serve steaks with pineapple slices, mashed potatoes, grilled tomato slices and green beans.

Our friend Georgina’s snake beans, and "bubble and squeak" fried in capsicum rings were a tasty addition, Anne.

Drive a pineapple ? !

Brazilian scientists have found a way to turn fibres from pineapples, bananas, coconut shells and other plants into plastics that can be used in automobiles.

These fruits and plants contain cellulose, which can be processed into tiny nano fibers that reinforce plastics used in automotive manufacturing. The material is renewable, extremely strong and lightweight.

For more information check out:

http://phys.org/news/2011-03-green-cars-pineapples-bananas.html

http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/03/30/greener-plastics-possible-bananas-pineapples

But, if you can’t wait until these new materials are on the market you can try Johan’s inventive pineapple car modelling approach pictured here.

And if you're really keen on the details of constructing this pineapplemobile here is the youtube link, Anne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4GMAEycK5U

Walnut Meringue Pie

Pie: 440g can Golden Circle Crushed Pineapple, 2 tblspns cornflour, ¼ cup water, 2 egg yolks, 1 tblspn butter, baked pastry shell

 

Walnut Meringue: 2 egg whites, ½ cup sugar, pinch salt, ¼ cup chopped walnuts, walnut halves

Pie: Place Golden Circle Crushed Pineapple in saucepan. When boiling thicken with cornflour blended in water. Remove from stove and beat in egg yolks and butter. Spoon into pastry shell. Top with Walnut Meringue and brown in oven.

Walnut Meringue: Beat egg whites stiffly, adding sugar and salt. When very stiff, fold in chopped walnuts. Swirl on top of pie and decorate with walnut halves.

 

Ruby Borrowdale offers this advice in the "Golden Circle Tropical Recipe Book”

“Try using custard powder occasionally when cornflour is called for in a recipe. Especially in cake, biscuit and short paste recipes, it imparts a rich colour and delicious flavour.”

God's own fruit

 

The online translation for the phrase on this beautiful piece of fabric my sister-in-law, Jill, and brother-in-law, John, brought back from Kenya is “No glory except God alone”.

I wonder how that connects with pineapples?

There would definitely have been pineapples in the Garden of Eden – hmmm, maybe there was a typo in the original translation of Genesis and that apple was really a pineapple ????  Anne

Fried Rice, with ?

Light fry in butter 1 X 440g can Golden Circle Pineapple Pieces (drained), 1 cup chopped onion or eschallots, 1 cup chopped capsicum, 1 cup chopped celery. Add one cup diced cooked chicken or prawns and 6 cups freshly cooked rice. Flavour with salt, pepper and soy sauce. Serve in bowls garnished with strips of cooked rice.