Do you avoid so-called ‘vegetarian meals’. Meals that are not intentionally intended only for vegetarians, but don’t contain meat so get categorised as such? In South Africa we seem to have such a strong tradition that for a meal to be seen as a real meal, there needs to be meat included. And often meat [...]
Archive | May, 2012
Indulgent blue cheese and mushroom sauce
A rich blue cheese and mushroom sauce is so easy to make, tastes so good, and makes it seem like you really made extra effort with a meal. And I find that even people who don’t usually eat blue cheese enjoy this sauce. I often like to serve it with fillet, whether we’ve pan-fried or [...]
Fruity chicken curry
A few years ago the thought of adding fruit to salads or cooking with fruit would never have crossed my mind. And if a recipe contained fruit, I would most certainly not attempt to make it. But this has definitely changed! I now love the added sweetness and flavour that fruit can bring to a [...]
Red lentil dhal
In my final year at University I au-paired for an Indian family. One of the great perks of the job (besides being paid of course!) was that they fed me and fed me and fed me… Before I worked for them my experience of Indian food had been limited to curry with rice, I’m not [...]
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