Archive for the ‘Mains’ Category

Destination Meals, Food & Travel, Holidays, Mains, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes

A recipe using traditional Alheira sausage and all the things I miss about Lisbon. Well, some of them.

As Seen On, Food & Travel, Mains, Recipes, Seafood, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

For this week’s Woolworths MasterChef SA Spice Challenge, I delve into the wonders of Zanzibar the Spice Island and make a Parsi dish, a prawn dhansak. Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar and was Parsi- did you know? Dhansak uses a variety of spices, lentils and in this case mango and pineapple pulp and lime juice. Serve with a mango and pineapple salsa.

Chicken & Poultry, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mains, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes

A ballotine is traditionally a deboned leg of chicken or duck, stuffed, tied and rolled and steamed, poached or baked. Nowadays chicken breast and various cuts of red meat are also used to make a ballotine – really a fancy way of saying a stuffed and rolled piece of meat. I stuffed chicken breasts with Mediterranean Delicacies basil pesto and topped with their Olive Tapenade and bread crumbs.

Food & Travel, Mains, Recipes, Red Meat

Smoked Spanish almonds from E & A Gispert, master roaster in Barcelona, founded in 1851 – a lovely crust for garlic and lamb chops.

Food & Travel, Mains, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes, Seafood

Squid or cuttlefish ink takes me to the Mediterranean and remind me of travels to Italy and Spain. I am always on the look-out for unusual or indigenous food items when we explore – sometimes repeat visits yield new items afresh each time. I picked up a box of fine short squid ink vermicelli in Andorra three weeks ago, and with careful packing it made the journey . more or less unscathed. I made this dish with it.

Chicken & Poultry, Mains, Recipes

This bright and zingy chicken pita is the ideal meal for when you don’t have time but need the nutrition. The raw julienned beetroot is a sweet take on red cabbage slaw. Personally one I prefer. Instead of mayonnaise, I’ve used low fat plain yoghurt. By all means use double cream or thick Greek yoghurt if you like.

Chicken & Poultry, Mains, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes

A beautiful creamy chicken pasta with browned onion and garlic, Parma ham, a dollop of creme fraiche and a grating of Parmigiano. Also, I dig deep and share 10 intimate things you may not know about me. Your turn?

Holidays, Mains, Recipes

A rich chicken tagine, with carrots, tangy apricots and preserved lemon – easy to make and utterly fragrant and comforting. An ode to love. “Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.” -E. E. Cummings

Mains, Recipes, Red Meat

A silly poem, conversations on longing and finally, lamb chops. I’ve made these Greek inspired lamb chops (nothing that I claim to be authentic Greek) by using tomatoes, fresh thyme, Kalamata olives, garlic, a little feta cheese and spritely mint.

Mains, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes, Vegetarian

Originating in East Asia and Northern Europe, delicate shimeji mushrooms on long stalks are excellent in a quick stir fry. And back in 2000 I was the stir fry queen. I even bought my vegetables in bulk and prepared them in 2 meal bags and froze them in readiness for the weeks ahead. On a bed of glass noodles, dressed in Asian flavours with spring onions, garlic sauteed shimeji mushrooms make a very quick and easy vegetarian meal.