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Oct 04

spaghetti carbonara

I decided to post this recipe after reading a tweet from my friend Jenty saying that she’d made this for supper over the weekend, and how well it had gone down in her household. That reminded me of a) how much I love carbonara, and b) that I ha (read full article)

bacon, carbonara, Dish of the Day, eggs, italian, Marcella Hazan, Pasta, Recipes, savoury, Spaghetti

Oct 04

spaghetti carbonara

I decided to post this recipe after reading a tweet from my friend Jenty saying that she’d made this for supper over the weekend, and how well it had gone down in her household. That reminded me of a) how much I love carbonara, and b) that I ha (read full article)

bacon, carbonara, Dish of the Day, eggs, italian, Marcella Hazan, Pasta, Recipes, savoury, Spaghetti

Sep 28

tarragon & lemon roast chicken

I’ve hummed and hahed (odd expression) about including this recipe, as I have no doubt that many of you will find another recipe for roast chicken about as exciting as reruns of a test-pattern, BUT part of me also thinks that this might equally (read full article)

Chicken, Dish of the Day, lemon, Meat, recipe, Recipes, roast, savoury, Tarragon

Sep 24

tomato relish

Okay, although in this instance this recipe is intended to be a tomato relish to accompany the boerie rolls that I posted earlier, it can (very easily) be adapted to make a tomato base for mince, a tomato sauce for pasta, in fact almost anything that (read full article)

basil, Dish of the Day, onion, recipe, Recipes, savoury, tomato, Veg

Sep 23

wicked boerie rolls

In honour of the fact that tomorrow is National Braai Day – okay, more correctly it’s Heritage Day, but for some reason (I forget quite what) it was ordained braai day, and as the new moniker has the blessing of the Arch himself (the one, (read full article)

Dish of the Day, Meat, recipe, Recipes, savoury, South Africa

Sep 21

slow cooked shoulder of lamb with roasted vegetables

Today’s dish of the day is inspired by the beautiful photography of my friend Janette. Every day she posts photos that she’s taken on her blog, and Saturday’s post was of her supper. Normally, photos of someone’s random supper (read full article)

Dish of the Day, Jamie Oliver, Lamb, Meat, recipe, Recipes, savoury, Slow, vegetables

Sep 21

slow cooked shoulder of lamb with roasted vegetables

Today’s dish of the day is inspired by the beautiful photography of my friend Janette. Every day she posts photos that she’s taken on her blog, and Saturday’s post was of her supper. Normally, photos of someone’s random supper (read full article)

Dish of the Day, Jamie Oliver, Lamb, Meat, recipe, Recipes, savoury, Slow, vegetables

Sep 18

paper-wrapped roast chicken

This is the second installment in today’s edition of the Fabulous Friday Feast and is meant to be served alongside the paw-paw and avo salad. I think that the fresh, slightly exotic taste of the paw-paw in the salad, perfectly offsets the comf (read full article)

Chicken, Fab Friday Feast, Meat, recipe, Recipes, roast, savoury

Sep 18

paper-wrapped roast chicken

This is the second installment in today’s edition of the Fabulous Friday Feast and is meant to be served alongside the paw-paw and avo salad. I think that the fresh, slightly exotic taste of the paw-paw in the salad, perfectly offsets the comf (read full article)

Chicken, Fab Friday Feast, Meat, recipe, Recipes, roast, savoury

Sep 18

paw-paw and avo salad with tamarind and lime dressing

This paw-paw and avo salad is the first installment in this weeks Fabulous Friday Feast – I’m sorry that I’m posting it so late, but as I only thought of the Feast idea today, I didn’t have much time to prepare. Next week, I (read full article)

Avocado, Fabulous Friday Feast, Paw-Paw, recipe, Recipes, salad, savoury, seasonal

Sep 18

paw-paw and avo salad with tamarind and lime dressing

This paw-paw and avo salad is the first installment in this weeks Fabulous Friday Feast – I’m sorry that I’m posting it so late, but as I only thought of the Feast idea today, I didn’t have much time to prepare. Next week, I (read full article)

Avocado, Fab Friday Feast, Paw-Paw, recipe, Recipes, salad, savoury, seasonal

Sep 14

perfect pesto

I have to confess – tonight I cheated and used shop made pesto. It was so nondescript, bland and dull (and oddly brown) that I decided that today’s dish of the day, had to be proper pesto – call it an atonement for my laziness, if y (read full article)

basil, Dish of the Day, italian, Marcella Hazan, pesto, Recipes, savoury

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