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Sous vide chicken fillets are my go to meal during the week. Dave works late every Thursday night and I can just pop these into the sous vide cooker and leave them. When he gets home we pop them into the pan to finish off and add colour. Head straight on to the Recipe For … Continue reading Sous Vide Chicken Fillets
To make an authentic chicken and shellfish paella you need a paellera. This is the dish it is cooked and served in. Originating in Valencia, there are three basic ingredients. Rice, saffron and olive oil. Other essential ingredients include chorizo, mussels, chicken, langoustines and peas. Head straight on to the Recipe For Chicken And Shellfish … Continue reading Chicken And Shellfish Paella
Chicken soup has been known for decades, if not centuries, as Jewish penicillin. It is the bowl of comfort served up by bobbas (grand mothers) all over the world when we are sick. It has been discovered that chicken bones contain natural antibiotics which is why I would recommend using bone broth when making this … Continue reading Chicken Soup
Chicken And Corn Soup must be one of those recipes where everyone has a version that they make at home. Mine is really simple and not too fancy. But that is what it should be. Skip ahead to the recipe for Chicken And Corn Soup Engaging with people should always be done with consideration. I … Continue reading Chicken And Corn Soup
Master Stock is of Chinese origin and mine is called Not Quite Kevin as the recipe is from Lorraine whose blog is called Not Quite Nigella. Master stock can be used over and over again and is mainly used to poach meat. For my duck braised in master stock I have used duck breasts. These … Continue reading Duck Braised In Master Stock
Katmer pastry is thin and flaky and traditionally would be made totally by hand, stretching the dough until the sheets are thin. This is a flaky pastry that can be used for both sweet and savoury dishes. Here I have taken this Byzantine pastry and combined it with chicken and leeks to make a pie. … Continue reading Chicken And Leek Katmer Pie
This is not just the perfect dish for a summer Christmas, but can be served for any large family gathering. For my American friends I would love it if you tried this recipe for Thanksgiving and let me know what you think of roast turkey with a mushroom-risotto rice stuffing. Head straight on to the recipe … Continue reading Roast Turkey
Sarah calls this her idea springtime Spanish-style roast chicken as it holds the delightful promise of chilled sangria and sunny days with time on your hands and food on the go. I made it on an evening where I did not have much time on my hands, but knew that a one dish meal would … Continue reading Spanish Style Chicken
I made my own spice blend for this Chicken And Paneer Stir Fry recipe, as part of the Daring Cooks challenge. The Kadhai Sauce is a wet spice blend, essential to this dish. The other morning I woke up to over 100 emails in my inbox. For me this means they landed on my tablet … Continue reading Chicken And Paneer Stir Fry
Gooi & Enjoy™ is a Meal Dice Challenge created by PaperKutz and I was one of the lucky recipients of a set of these dice, together with a R100 Pick N Pay gift card voucher, a wooden spoon and a spoon rest. From this post here you can read in the comments that the spoon holder is by far the … Continue reading Chicken Cous Cous Salad
When Dave's sono was younger he showed very little interest in food, other than eating it. One holiday we encouraged the boys to choose a vegetable to eat with the meals I was preparing and the vote went to sweet potatoes. We ate so many sweet potatoes that weekend I could not face them for … Continue reading Chicken Curry With Sweet Potatoes | Cari Ga
I have recipes that I want to try saved all over the place. Recently I have taken to securing them to the side of the fridge, and out of site, with my Yuppiechef magnets. Sadly, I didn't think of this when I started getting the magnets and so my first, second and third lots of … Continue reading Creamy Chicken Pasta
Alex and I often take it in turns to cater for the Formula 1 events. The arrangement is very loose as there is no ways I am doing breakfast on a Sunday for anyone but Dave and I, and some of the races are late at night. But when we feel like it we get … Continue reading Nonya Pot Braised Chicken
For challenge 8 of Freshly Blogged we were tasked with creating a recipe using art or an artist as our inspiration. Unlike the contestants I did not look to a world famous artist for my inspiration, instead I turned to my late gran who inspires me every day. She was a commercial artist and taught … Continue reading Chicken And Chorizo Gnocchi
This chicken and kiwi salad was made for the Zespri Kiwi Fruit Challenge. Chicken And Kiwi Salad For the next 14 days I will be competing in South Africa's Zespri Kiwi Fruit Challenge. Together with 8 other bloggers I will be bringing you tips, ideas and recipes. These will feature here on the blog as well … Continue reading Chicken And Kiwi Salad
As soon as I saw the challenge theme and ingredients for round 3 of Freshly Blogged I knew I was going to make ostrich bobotie using the ostrich sausage. To me, bobotie is the quintessential South African dish, together with melk tart, koeksisters and mealie pap! Skip ahead to the recipe for Ostrich Bobotie Given … Continue reading Ostrich Bobotie
Alex Wheeler is a great friend and a fantastic cook. He has agreed to share his recipe for duck on my blog. Duck While Tandy and Dave are away, Tandy gave me the keys to her blog. They are in Italy looking at motorbikes and Ferraris and lovely Italian girls in little summer dresses (well … Continue reading Duck | Guest Post From Alex Wheeler
This recipe for chicken stir fry is one that you can easily make at home, without having to put too much effort into it. Just be sure to have everything prepped before you start cooking. Chicken Stir Fry Since I have been blogging I have come across a lot of queries for dishes that I … Continue reading Chicken Stir Fry
In his autobiography, A taste of my life, Raymond Blanc tells us how he has modernized his mother's recipe for coq au vin. The story starts on page 237 with a challenge issued to Keith Floyd and ends on page 242 with a rough indication of what Raymond does when cooking coq au vin. I don't have access to … Continue reading Petit Poulet Au Vin
Biryani chicken is an Indian dish that has its origins among the Muslims population. We are very fortunate to have a chicken farm close to where we live. The chickens are free range and taste amazing. I have lived in Gordons Bay for a long time now, but only recently found out that I can … Continue reading Biryani Chicken