Archive for the ‘Red Meat’ Category

As Seen On, Food & Fab Endorsed, Food & Travel, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Red Meat, Salad & Snacks, Starters

Mini beef and pepper stacks, based on a very special döner kebab eaten in Istanbul.

Brunch, Recipes, Red Meat

Eating only when hungry (possible?) & an easy roast beef picnic sandwich

Food & Fab Endorsed, Food & Travel, Mains, Recipes, Red Meat

Tapping into the street food hot dog trend, I make the simplest of Greek foods, the souvlaki, marinated with thyme and mint and serve it on a hot dog bun. Some scenes favourite scenes from Athens

Asian Food, Food & Travel, Mains, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Recipes, Red Meat, Wine Events

Earlier this year, I was invited to participate in the Women and Wine of the World International Competition 2012 and appointed ‘godmother’. My task is to pair dishes with the winning wines. The first is a gewürztraminer with a Thai red curry with seared ribeye steak – how to make a red curry paste from scratch.

Food & Fab Endorsed, Mains, Recipes, Red Meat

I paired dukkah crusted ostrich with seasonal asparagus served with a dollop of saffron cream and herby couscous with slices of Turkish apricot – flavours of Africa and the Middle East mingling in one wholesome, healthy dish.

Mains, Recipes, Red Meat

Lamb neck is a tough and relatively inexpensive cut of meat, but is delicious when slow cooked in a stew or made as a filling for a pie. In this recipe, I slow roasted the necks with cardamom and saffron until tender and slightly sticky and served on soft polenta with a date and almond chutney.

As Seen On, Mains, Recipes, Red Meat, The Fabulous

I was invited by Errieda du Toit, an experienced hand in the kitchen and new twitter friend to be part of a feature on her, by the Afrikaans television programme Pasella. We were tasked with cooking with venison and each chose something a little unusual, a bit of a challenge and at the same time spoke about our activity on twitter and how we experienced the social media medium.

Food & Fab Endorsed, Indian Food Easy Peasy, Recipes, Red Meat

I made these koftas using really beautiful lamb mince from Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants and I toasted cumin seeds, coriander seeds, curry leaves and a few cardamom pods. Once finely ground in a spice grinder, I added them to the mince. It’s not essential to add them to the mix, as originally this was intended as a quick recipe, but it adds glorious fragrance and flavour – a Food and the Fabulous Endorsed Project

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.

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.