Archive for the ‘Recipes’ Category

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.

Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Midnight Snacks, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

These are a healthy version of nachos that I make at home, often to snack on while watching the football. I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Mediterranean Delicacies. In this instance their avocado hummus with their caramelised onion dip. I chose to use both as dips that I lavished over the hot-out-the-oven nachos.

Bread & Pastry, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

This challenge paired Medi Deli’s Sun Dried Tomato pesto with their Basil Pesto Mayo – I combined the sun dried tomato pesto into a savoury scone (you can add some Parmesan cheese on the top if you prefer) and served with the basil pesto mayo instead of butter. A really lovely combination and look at the colours!

As Seen On, Food & Fab Endorsed, Recipes, Sasko, Starters, Vegetarian

In this recipe I used the Sasko Flour Quick Treats Bran Muffin Mix in combination with grated sweet potatoes to make a rosti. I think this combination would also work well using peeled, mashed sweet potato with the mix to make a fat flap jack, also to be served with smooth, salty snoek or smoked snoek paté or even a thick dollop of creme fraiche. I served this with lemon zest which always adds such lovely lift to dishes sweet and savoury.

Food & Fab Endorsed, Indian Food Easy Peasy, Mediterranean Delicacies, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes, Seafood

Kedgeree has always been a versatile dish to use up left overs. In the Cape it is served with a fish (often smoked) like haddock, flaked and boiled egg. The rice is spiced with masala fried with onions. In this recipe, I teamed the Mediterranean Delicacies Peppered Mackerel with their hummus that I spiced using cayenne pepper. A spicy, satisfying meal that showcases the lovely smoked peppered mackerel fillet.

Bread & Pastry, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes

I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Medi Deli. In this case, their anchovies with their biltong dip. I combined the salty anchovies with onion to make a deeply savoury beer bread and served thick slices of it with the creamy biltong dip. It’s really fitting I think, to post these recipes right now, as Medi Deli foods have a predominately Greek origin and I am currently in Greece, enjoying not only the warm Greek hospitality but the range of foods and flavors too.

As Seen On, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Ice Cream Sorbet & Frozen Desserts, Recipes, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

An easy but indulgent semifreddo. I love this semifreddo because of the unexpected, refreshing scent of lemon and and the freshness of the zest. It goes surprisingly well with rasberries and is creamy and satisfying.

Dessert & Baked Goods, Food & Fab Endorsed, Recipes, Sasko

A month or so ago, I enjoyed a dessert pizza at a local Italian restaurant. There’s nothing new about dessert pizzas or using bread as a base for desserts – just think of bread and butter puddings, croissants baked with custard and choc chips and English summer puddings.
I decided to use the Sasko Quick Treats Scone mix to make a very easy dessert ‘pizza’ base and topped with sliced figs, a home-made chocolate sauce and hazelnuts – a Food and the Fab endorsed project

As Seen On, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Recipes, Vegetarian, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

My Sri Lankan style Aubergine Curry is based on a favourite recipe from Rick Stein’s Sri Lankan Crab Curry found in his beautiful Far Eastern Odyssey (Uncle Rick is one of my favourite celebrity chefs- he really understands food, its origins and people). I have made versions of the crab curry with great success and thought the aubergines would stand up to and display these flavours wonderfully. Featured by Woolworths for the MasterChef SA series.

Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Medi Deli – in this case their little pack of marinated octopus salad with their tahini paste. I decided to keep the octopus in a salad and combine it with salad leaves, grilled aubergine, mint and tahini (the last three ingredients are such willing partners as it is). Food and the Fabulous endorsed project and news of travel to Monaco today.