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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. Head straight on to the recipe for Chicken And Corn Soup ♥ Engaging with people should always be done with … Continue reading Chicken And Corn Soup With Fresh Herbs
A lot can be said for the health benefits of bone broth but that is not why I made it. I decided that a decent stock was always a good thing to have in the freezer and if it is good for you then all the better! Head straight on to the recipe for Bone … Continue reading Bone Broth | Enriched Chicken 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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