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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 Adapted From Home
The other morning I woke up to over 100 emails in my inbox. For me this means they landed on my tablet and on my laptop. A blogger sent an email about her payment discrepancy to a group email instead of the accounts department. Firstly, I would love to be earning that kind of money … Continue reading Chicken And Paneer Stir Fry For Daring Cooks
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 James 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 years. When … 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 With Asparagus
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 bobotie – or a version thereof, using the ostrich sausage. To me, bobotie is the quintessential South African dish, together with melk tart, koeksisters and mealie pap! Given that mealie meal was … Continue reading Ostrich Bobotie With Mealie Meal Cakes
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
Since I have been blogging I have come across a lot of queries for dishes that I consider run of the mill. Chicken stir fry is one of them. If I had not seen a query for one, I would never have through to write down what goes into my stir fry. The dish will … 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
I used black beans in this chicken pot pie recipe even though Dave is not really into them as they change the colour of the food. Debbi, our new hostess for The Secret Recipe Club is on the ball, and sent out our assignments the weekend after our reveal. This month I am getting to know … Continue reading Chicken Pot Pie
On coming home, the last thing I felt like was more complications. I was inspired to make a simple supper, and this Chicken and Mushrooms Served On Zucchini Ribbons met the bill perfectly. In South Africa we have an organization that relies mostly on donations for funding. They receive a donation from a corporation of … Continue reading Chicken and Mushrooms On Zucchini Ribbons
On our recent trip to Scotland we were lucky enough to enjoy part of their spring. We had three days of 22°C and other days with snow and temperatures hovering around the freezing mark. Spring brought with it sunshine, and lots of heather. The fields were amazing and we even did a little bit of … Continue reading Heather Honey Chicken
I am submitting this recipe for Chicken Pasta to Presto Pasta Nights, which is being hosted this week by Ruth, the founder of this group. This is a weekly get together of bloggers around the world celebrating pasta. I was invited to attend a function by Astral Foods at Jenny Morris's The Cooks Playground. Astral … Continue reading Chicken Pasta
This recipe for orange marinated duck breasts has been adapted from the Food & Home Entertaining Magazine. Each and every one of us will at some stage in our cooking and blogging lives take inspiration from what we read. I very seldom read an actual recipe, but I will if the name of the recipe … Continue reading Orange Marinated Duck Breasts
My Amarula Cured Ostrich Carpaccio was served on a bed of fennel with an Amarula and mushroom ice cream. A unique combination. I was invited to celebrate Amarula as part of South Africa's heritage and create a dish where I could possibly win a luxury getaway in the Bushveld. To this end, I was provided … Continue reading Amarula Cured Ostrich Carpaccio
This month I have been assigned Plain Chicken for The Secret Recipe Club. I am in a new group as I wanted a later posting date, and so I am about to meet a whole lot of new bloggers, Steph being the first. Steph is from Alabama - a place I remember well from my trip to … Continue reading Three Cheese Chicken Alfredo Bake