Sri Lankan Aubergine Curry – cooked in the style of a fish curry

By |2017-04-12T17:55:53+02:00July 18th, 2011|Destination Meals, Food, Indian Food Easy Peasy, Mains|

I used Rick Stein's Sri Lankan Fish Curry recipe as the inspiration for this Aubergine curry. The bitter nuttiness of fenugreek seeds soften both in flavour and texture as they cook down, melding beautifully with the tamarind enhanced tang of the tomato gravy (chutney) and the heat of the masala and chillis are tempered by the sweet coconut milk.

Indian Food Easy Peasy: Prawn Madras Curry

By |2017-05-08T13:08:27+02:00February 16th, 2011|Curries & Casseroles, Destination Meals, Food, Indian Food Easy Peasy, Mains, Recipe Index, Recipes, Seafood|

Prawn Madras Curry prawn madras I know there still remains a mystery shrouding Indian cooking, even amongst many of the accomplished cooks and foodies that I speak to. I can hear the sitars playing evocatively as you read this... Now, I'm not saying it's all very easy for me and that I'm mixing my [...]

Spicy Thai Noodles: 2 ways. Sing it!

By |2017-05-08T13:13:31+02:00October 15th, 2010|Chicken & Poultry, Destination Meals, Food, Mains, Recipe Index, Recipes|

A stir fry and a Broth The beauty of this dish is two-fold: Each of the spices and condiments added can be adjusted, for example the chilli, ginger and soy sauce, to alter the flavour focus, and this can be transformed from a stir-fry, into a broth, with the addition of just water, a little [...]

Tofu and Tamarind: terrific!

By |2017-04-12T19:21:18+02:00October 14th, 2010|Destination Meals, Food, Starters|

Tofu with Chilli Tamarind Dipping sauce Serves 2 photo property of foodandthefabulous.com Tofu Tofu is a versatile source of vegetarian protein. It’s a fantastic wobbly but firm, ghostly white “cheese” (it’ a bean curd) made from coagulated soya milk and nothing new to us here in South Africa. But what tofu has in character, it [...]

North African Odyssey

By |2017-05-08T13:14:44+02:00September 28th, 2010|Africa, Destination Meals, Drinks, Food & Travel, Mains, Meat, Recipe Index, Recipes, Soups & Stews, Starters, Travel, Travel in Africa|

From previous posts you can tell that I draw much inspiration for my cooking from North Africa- Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco in particular. I mentioned that we really enjoyed Morocco, and that even prior to this, I was intrigued with fiery harissa paste (Tunisian origin), couscous as an alternative starch, refreshing sweet mint tea and the earthy warmth of cumin, [...]

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