Slow Roasted Lamb slices of roast lamb with coriander and lime pesto I recently asked readers to share their favourite foods with me One of my all time favourites has to be slow roasted lamb. My mother used to do a pot roast with leg of lamb, flavoured with garlic, lemon and fresh [...]
Spicy ostrich meatballs in a silky passata and fresh salsa sauce, served on creamy mash: easy, summer comfort food
This post is featured on Barcelona The Offside blog: http://barcelona.theoffside.com/team-news/a-king-of-the-zambezi-salute-to-carles-puyols-500th.html *Please note that as stated in my About page, I am an independent blogger and the views expressed and interpretations set out below are my own and not in any way affiliated to any person or organisation. Many thanks to Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma, who [...]
Slow Roasted Greek Style Lamb (Vampire's Kill) This recipe is featured on Cape Town Magazine blog. what lurketh behind the Vampire's Kill....scroll down to find out! Our new house (well, it's going on a year now, with the unrenovated bits going on 60 odd years old), hosted it's first Govender-Ypma Halloween party on Sunday [...]
Individual Chicken Pot Pies Serves 6 Last Thursday I dragged myself into the kitchen after a long and especially taxing day and stared at the puff pastry I left out in the stay-cool section of the fridge. And then I stared at the chicken breasts that I purchased earlier that day. Chicken and mushroom pie, [...]
Smokey Chilli Ostrich Goulash Serves 4 After pan-frying a small portion of the ostrich fillet I used for the crackers in the last post, I decided that a slow-cooked tomato based stew was just the thing for the rest. The fillet being quite tender, would also mean a much shorter cooking time. So in fact, [...]
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 [...]
Spicy Sweet Potato, Bacon and Mushroom Frittata World Egg Day - background 8 October 2010 was a day devoted in celebration of the humble egg, by The International Egg Commission, in honour of its nutritional versatility and universal affordability, in an eggshell. Eggs are considered a "whole food", because they are an incredible source of [...]
Smoked Angelfish Tagliatelle in a Champagne Cream Sauce, with Dill Weekday meals are usually about sustenance rather than experimentation or luxury. For all the reasons you are all too familiar with. I wanted to use some of the ingredients I picked up at the Neighbourgoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill (referred to affectionately, by [...]
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, [...]
