Braai Potato Recipe
In the spirit of the good old braai, (or Thanksgiving BBQ, which is coming up in the U.S.) I thought I would share my favourite potato recipe. It’s easy, and you don’t even have to monitor them while they cook.Ingredients - Thick/strong tin foil – Enough to wrap each potato twice - Herbs, like Rosemary and Thyme from the herb garden - Butter – A good tablespoon’s worth per potato - Potatoes - Garlic – 1 or 2 cloves per potato Preparation - Wash the potatoes, and don’t dry them afterwards - Using a knife, put a few cuts into each potato. This is just...
Read MoreBraaiday South African National Holiday
September 24th was Heritage Day here in South Africa. A public holiday that celebrates South Africa’s diversity, and yet another excuse for all of us not to go to work. But, it is also National Braai Day.For those of you not from South Africa, a braai (pronounced like “eye” but with “br” in front of it) is a barbecue. Only with proper meat, and done in South African style of beer, boerewors and biltong. And steak, and lamb chops, and potato salad, and malva pudding…. you get the idea BraaiDay was started by Jan Scannell in 2005, and is being heavily...
Read MoreJars Pasta sauce
This pasta requires minimal effort but tastes great! You just need to be able to boil pasta and open up jars of Mediterranean delicacies. Shopping List:10 artichokes in olive oil A handful of sundried tomatoes in olive oil A handful of dried black olives in chili/herb oil Approximately 30 ml of the olive oil from the olives or normal virgin olive oil 1 clove of garlic 1 green chili 2 Handfuls of Parmessan shavings 250g of Pasta (Penne or Fusili)Most of the ingredients above can be found at a local supermarket. If not, any ‘Italian’ deli would stock all of the products. After you’ve...
Read MoreSalmon Pasta Recipe
This is another one of my quick pasta recipes – it’s very tasty, super nutritious and low GI! I read a similar recipe in a recipe book, and after trying it out ourselves, we can fully recommend it. Serves 2-3 people Ingredients:1 tin of Salmon A handful of cherry tomatoes (Halved) A large handful of fresh basil leaves (Roughly chopped) 3 stalks of celery (Finely chopped) 1 bunch of celery leaves (Roughly chopped) A handful of olives (Pitted and roughly chopped) +/- 60 ml Olive oil 250g PastaAnd here are the 3 easy steps to making this very impressive pasta… 1. Boil the pasta...
Read MoreQuick and Easy Pasta Sauce
Here’s another recipe using the Basil and Chili from your herb garden. It’s often time consuming to make a different sauce for your pasta but this recipe should take you less than 5 minutes to prepare. The ingredients for this recipe are:Cherry tomatoes Fresh basil leaves Garlic Olive oil Chilli Salt and PepperOk, and now set your clocks and time yourself, because here we go…1 – Chop the cherry tomatoes in half, and add to a bowl 2 – Chop the basil and add to the bowl 3 – Chop the garlic and add to the bowl 4 – Slice the chilli and add to the...
Read MoreNon-Traditional Italian Caprese Salad
This is a variation of the traditional Italian Caprese Salad. It contains the same ingredients:tomatoes basil mozarella oreganumThe difference is in the presentation.Take a mozarella ball and cut into slices Arrange the slices around the edge of a round plate Chop cherry tomatoes and basil into a bowl and add some olive oil and oreganum Mix this together and spoon out into the center of the plate Pour a drizzle of olive oil over the mozarella and then sprinkle a little oreganum over the cheeseIt’s now ready to serve. This salad is perfect as a starter or an accompaniment to a...
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