Appetizers
Beef
Biscuits/Cookies and Cakes
Breakfast
- 1960s party! Roasted Butternut Squash Dip and Spinach Dip
- Artichoke Soufflé
- Asparagus Mimosa
- Aubergines with tahini vinaigrette
- Avocado, pea and yoghurt dip
- Baked Vacherin Mont d’Or
- Bouchées à la reine / Vol au Vents with chicken and mushrooms
- Bulgar with lentils -mujadara
- Butternut and potato cakes
- Butternut, Comté and almond tart
- Cauliflower soup with smoky bacon
- Chestnut and foie gras “cappuccino”
- Chilled Cucumber and Avocado soup
- Coeurs d’artichauts gratinés au chèvre frais et tomates séchées / Artichoke hearts stuffed with goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes
- Coquilles St Jacques / Gratinéed Scallops
- Courgette flower fritters – shrimp and fromage frais filled
- Duck breast with peaches
- Duck confit crispy spring rolls
- Endive, Roquefort and walnut salad
- Fig and Almond Tart & Proscuitto wrapped figs
- Flammekueche
- Foie Gras
- French Chicken Liver Pâté
- Fried Calamari
- Gougères
- Gratin d’épinards au chèvre / Spinach and goat cheese gratin
- Gratin de Chicons au Jambon / Endive and Ham Gratin
- Italian quiche
- La macédoine de legumes / macédoine of vegetables in salad
- Leek and Olive Tart
- Madras Deviled Eggs
- Moules Marinière
- Muffins with chorizo and olives
- Olive shortbreads / Sablé aux Olives Noires
- Orzo salad with a spicy dressing
- Oven roasted aubergine/eggplant with saffron yogurt dressing
- Parmesan sablés
- Pea, lettuce and sorrel soup /soupe à l’oseille et petit pois
- Pear, walnut and brie tart
- Pickled Fish – a Cape Easter Tradition
- Pizza with caramelised onions, figs, Roquefort and hazelnuts
- Potato pancakes with smoked salmon / Pancakes au pommes de terre et saumon fumé
- Potato, Roquefort and Hazelnut tart
- PPLT – Prosciutto Di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, Lettuce & Tomato
- Puff pastry maroille quiche
- Quiche with artichokes, feta and mushrooms
- Rustic Butternut and Feta Tartlets
- Salade Frisée aux Lardons – Endive salad with bacon
- Sicilian artichoke and fava bean salad
- Smoked salmon and capers fishcakes
- Smoked salmon and shrimp parcels
- Soupe au Pistou / Provençal vegetable soup with pesto
- Stuffed courgette
- Summer vegetable tian
- Tarte aux Maroilles / Maroilles cheese tart
- Thai vegetable salad
- Tomato and Chorizo tart
- Tomato puff pastry tart
- Tomato salad
- Tomato soup with gnocchi
- Tortilla with chorizo
- White Asparagus with Olive Oil Sabayon
- Œuf cocotte aux champignons / Coddled eggs with mushrooms
Beef
- Asian beef with bok choy and rice noodles
- Beef cheeks/ Daube de joue de boeuf
- Beef short ribs in red wine and port
- Beef Wellington – Another guest post by Stuart
- Boeuf Bourguignon
- Carbonnade Flamande – Flemish Beef and Beer Stew
- Delicious Bobotie and yellow rice -South Africa on a plate
- Nonna’s Bolognaise Sauce
- Osso Buco
- Oxtail Potjie – Insanely good South African oxtail stew
- Pot au Feu
- Steaks with bacon mushroom sauce
- Stuffed courgette
- Tournedos de magret with sauce madère
- Venison with prunes
Biscuits/Cookies and Cakes
- Almond Cookies / Biscuits aux Amandes
- Almond, lemon and port nibbles
- Bakewell tart – high tea anyone?
- Banana Bread
- Bavarian Apple Tart
- Beer Bread – the easiest bread you will ever make
- Best baked lemon Cheesecake
- Bugnes / Sweet Lyonnais Fritters (angel wings)
- Buttermilk Rusks
- Calling all chocoholics – Delicious baked chocolate tart
- Carrot Cake – The must try recipe
- Cheesecake – passion fruit
- Cheesy Courgette Bread AKA Zucchini Bread
- Chocolate and cherry cake
- Chocolate and walnut cupcakes
- Chocolate, hazelnut and coffee cookies / Cookies au chocolat, noisettes et café
- Christmas Fruit Cake – Part 1, the cake
- Clafoutis à la ricotta
- Clafoutis with apricots, raspberries and nougat
- Courgette Cake with cream cheese icing
- Crêpes – authentic sweet French crêpes
- Croustade / Tourte des pyrénées
- Dark chocolate Guinness cake
- Date balls
- Decadent chocolate everything squares
- Delicious Melktert / Milk tart – Melktert d’Afrique du Sud
- Fig and Almond Tart & Proscuitto wrapped figs
- Fig, Walnut and Buttermilk Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Sauce
- Flan Parisien
- Flourless chocolate hazelnut cake
- French Apple and cream tart / Tarte aux pommes à la crème
- Gateau chocolat et marrons / Rich chocolate and chestnut cake
- Italian Pear and Mascarpone cake
- Klappertert / Coconut tart
- Koeksisters
- Lemon and coconut tart
- Lemon, Pine-nut and Lavender Honey Tart
- Luscious Lemon Bars
- Macadamia nut chocolate bars
- Madeleines
- Melomakarona – Greek walnut, syrup cookies
- Mirabelle Tart
- My Favorite Apple Cake
- Olive shortbreads / Sablé aux Olives Noires
- Parmesan sablés
- Peanut butter chocolate chip cookie
- Pear and apple crumble
- Pecan pie – a real American classsic
- Peppermint Crisp Tart
- Perfect plum cake
- Pistachio and Apple cake
- Raspberry tart / tarte aux framboises
- Roosterkoek – BBQ bread
- Tarte au Chocolat / Chocolate Tart
- Tarte au Sucre / Sugar tart
- Tarte Normande aux Pommes / Normandy Apple Tart
- The lightest, fluffiest scones ever!
- The Ultimate Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Vetkoek
- Walnut chocolate chip brownies – chocolate goodness
- White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Biscuits
Breakfast
- Baked eggs with cream and salt cured ham
- Butternut and potato cakes
- Cheesy Courgette Bread AKA Zucchini Bread
- Crêpes – authentic sweet French crêpes
- Croque Monsieur or Madame
- Mirabelle jam
- Mirabelle jam – sweet, sticky goodness
- Muffins with chorizo and olives
- Potato pancakes with smoked salmon / Pancakes au pommes de terre et saumon fumé
- Rustic Butternut and Feta Tartlets
- Spicy baked eggs – Shakshuka
- Sweetcorn bake
- Tarte au Sucre / Sugar tart
- Tortilla with chorizo
- Œuf cocotte aux champignons / Coddled eggs with mushrooms
Cheese
Chicken
Desserts
Duck
Game
Lamb
- Baked Vacherin Mont d’Or
- Cheesy Courgette Bread AKA Zucchini Bread
- Croque Monsieur or Madame
- Gougères
- Potato, Roquefort and Hazelnut tart
- Puff pastry maroille quiche
- Raclette in a pan / Raclette à la poêle
- Tomato puff pastry tart
Chicken
- Bouchées à la reine / Vol au Vents with chicken and mushrooms
- Bulgar with lentils -mujadara
- Cape Malay Chicken Curry
- Chicken breasts with a balsamic and shallot sauce
- Chicken Breyani
- Chicken sosaties
- Chicken with chorizo, potatoes, chickpeas and lemons
- Chicken with wine and caramelized lemons
- Chinese Chicken Salad
- Coq au Vin / Rooster in red wine
- French Chicken Liver Pâté
- Harissa sticky chicken
- Keralan chicken curry with chillies and coconut milk
- Pad Thai
- Perfect roast chicken
- Poulet à la Marengo / Chicken Marengo
- Poulet Basquaise – chicken with peppers, ham, tomatoes and onions
- Poulet Vallée d’Auge / Chicken with apples, cream and Calvados
- Spicy Brazilian chicken, chorizo and bean stew
- Spicy yoghurt chicken
- Stuffed courgette
Desserts
- Amadeus – molten chocolate and chilli
- Amarula truffles
- Cape Brandy Pudding / Tipsy tart /Brandewyntert – ooh, so delicious! a very boozy dessert
- Cherry Clafoutis
- Chocolate Mousse – classic French dessert
- Clafoutis with apricots, raspberries and nougat
- Crêpes – authentic sweet French crêpes
- Figs in Banyuls
- Flan Parisien
- Gateau chocolat et marrons / Rich chocolate and chestnut cake
- Jan Ellis pudding
- Malva pudding – the ultimate South African comfort food
- Oh, so good, Flourless Chocolate Tart
- Panna Cotta with passion-fruit
- Pear and apple crumble
- Pears in Red Wine
- Pistachio and Apple cake
- Pommes aux four / Baked Apples
- Strawberries in red wine with mascarpone cream
- Tarte au Chocolat / Chocolate Tart
- Tarte au Sucre / Sugar tart
- Tiramisu
- Truffes au chocolat
- Ultimate crème brulée
- Vinegar Pudding and Amarula- South African dessert combination made in heaven
- Walnut chocolate chip brownies – chocolate goodness
Duck
- Duck breast with honey and vinegar / Magret de Canard au miel et au vinaigre
- Duck confit / Confit de canard
- Duck confit crispy spring rolls
- Duck Confit Parmentier
- Foie Gras
- Magret de canard / grilled duck breast
- Pan seared Foie Gras with grapes
- Quiche au confit de canard / Duck confit quiche
- Roast Duckling with a brandy and orange sauce
- Smoked Duck Magret Salad with Chestnuts and Walnuts
- Tournedos de magret with sauce madère
Game
Lamb
- 5 Hour slow roasted Lamb
- Braised lamb shanks with beer
- Bunny Chow
- Cabbage and lamb bredie – a South African speciality
- Denningvleis
- Green-Bean Bredie
- Lamb shank curry soup
- Lamb Tagine
- Risotto with wild mushrooms and lamb
- Slow cooked mutton curry with garam masala
- Sosaties – South African lamb kebabs
- Tomato Bredie
Pasta
Pork
- Baked pasta with sausage, sage and butternut
- Baked pasta with sausage, sage and butternut
- Bear’s Garlic Pesto / Ail des ours
- Gnocchi with peas, asparagus and bacon
- Gnocchi with peas, prosciutto and parmesan
- Nonna’s Bolognaise Sauce
- Orzo salad with a spicy dressing
- Pad Thai
- Pappardelle with Pork Ragu and Burrata
- Spaghettii with chilli, clams and Prosecco
- Tagliatelle with Black Truffle Cream Sauce
- Tomato soup with gnocchi
Pork
- Baked eggs with cream and salt cured ham
- Baked pasta with sausage, sage and butternut
- Baked pasta with sausage, sage and butternut
- BBQ and oven roasted pork ribs
- BBQ pork ribs
- Choucroute Garnie à l’Alsacienne /Alsatian style Sauerkraut
- Crispy Pork Belly
- Fidget pie
- Gratin de Chicons au Jambon / Endive and Ham Gratin
- Grilled and roasted pork
- Muffins with chorizo and olives
- Pappardelle with Pork Ragu and Burrata
- Petit salé aux lentilles / Lentils and Salted Pork
- Pork roast with endives / Roti de porc aux endives
- Pork, chorizo and chickpea casserole
- Rouelle de porc braisée/ Creamy braised pork with onions
- Stuffed courgette
- Tex-mex pork chops
Rabbit
Salads
Sauces
Savoury Tarts and Quiches
Sea Food
Sides
Soup
Stews
South African
Salads
- Asparagus Mimosa
- Aubergines with tahini vinaigrette
- Bulgar with lentils -mujadara
- Butternut, Beetroot and Feta salad
- Chinese Chicken Salad
- Corn salad with basil pesto dressing
- Endive, Roquefort and walnut salad
- Green Bean salad
- La macédoine de legumes / macédoine of vegetables in salad
- Orzo salad with a spicy dressing
- Oven roasted aubergine/eggplant with saffron yogurt dressing
- PPLT – Prosciutto Di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, Lettuce & Tomato
- Salade Frisée aux Lardons – Endive salad with bacon
- Salade Frisée aux Lardons – Endive salad with bacon
- Salade Thaï Végétarienne
- Sicilian artichoke and fava bean salad
- Smoked Duck Magret Salad with Chestnuts and Walnuts
- Sousboontjies / Butter bean salad
- Sweet potato and chickpea salad
- Tabbouleh
- Thai vegetable salad
- Tomato salad
Sauces
- Bear’s Garlic Pesto / Ail des ours
- Chakalaka
- Cranberry sauce with red wine and figs
- Croque Monsieur or Madame
- Fig Chutney
- Lotte à l’américaine / monkfish with américaine sauce
- Monkey Gland Sauce
- Nonna’s Bolognaise Sauce
- Soupe au Pistou / Provençal vegetable soup with pesto
- Steaks with bacon mushroom sauce
- Tournedos de magret with sauce madère
- White Asparagus with Olive Oil Sabayon
Savoury Tarts and Quiches
- Fidget pie
- Puff pastry maroille quiche
- Tomato puff pastry tart
- Potato, Roquefort and Hazelnut tart
- Quiche with artichokes, feta and mushrooms
- Rustic Butternut and Feta Tartlets
- Pizza with caramelised onions, figs, Roquefort and hazelnuts
- Tomato and Chorizo tart
- Pear, walnut and brie tart
- French onion tart
- Tomato, mozzarella and olive tart
- Butternut, Comté and almond tart
- Quiche au confit de canard / Duck confit quiche
- How to make the perfect quiche
- Pissaladière – Niçoise onion tart
- Tarte aux Maroilles / Maroilles cheese tart
- Leek and Olive Tart
- Flammekueche
- Italian quiche
Sea Food
- Baked Fish with lemon and olives
- Baked Fish with Toasted Almonds
- Calamari and chorizo with aïoli
- Cod with garlic, white wine and tomato
- Coquilles St Jacques / Gratinéed Scallops
- Dos de cabillaud pané aux noix, sauce bleu de Bresse / cod with walnuts and a blue cheese sauce
- Fried Calamari
- Grilled fish with my secret green sauce
- Halibut with mussels and chorizo
- Lotte à l’américaine / monkfish with américaine sauce
- Moules et Praires Provençale- mussels and clams with tomatoes, garlic,olive oil and wine
- Moules Marinière
- Oven baked fish with a chorizo crumble
- Pad Thai
- Peri-Peri Prawns, finger licking delicious!
- Pickled Fish – a Cape Easter Tradition
- Potato pancakes with smoked salmon / Pancakes au pommes de terre et saumon fumé
- Prawn and coconut curry
- Prawn and spring onion empanadas
- Seared Scallops and Crispy Prosciutto
- Shrimp in coconut peanut sauce
- Smoked salmon and capers fishcakes
- Smoked salmon and shrimp parcels
- Sole meuniére with a cream and échalote sauce
- Spaghettii with chilli, clams and Prosecco
- Spicy Mussels, Clams and Shrimp
- Spicy seafood pasta
- Tequila lime prawns
- Tips to barbecue fish and Mediterranean Sea Bass recipe
- Turbot au beurre blanc
- Whole BBQ fish in Moroccan marinade
Sides
- Asparagus Mimosa
- Aubergine / eggplant with garlic and fresh herbs
- Aubergines with tahini vinaigrette
- Autumn Vegetable and Red Wine Braise
- Beer Bread – the easiest bread you will ever make
- Black Pepper Hasselback Potatoes
- Briam – Greek roasted vegetables
- Bulgar with lentils -mujadara
- Butternut and potato cakes
- Butternut, Beetroot and Feta salad
- Chakalaka
- Cheesy Courgette Bread AKA Zucchini Bread
- Courgette flower fritters – shrimp and fromage frais filled
- Crique de Pommes de Terre / Potato cake
- Delicious Bobotie and yellow rice -South Africa on a plate
- Fig Chutney
- Gratin d’épinards au chèvre / Spinach and goat cheese gratin
- Gratin Dauphinois / Potatoes with cream
- Green Bean salad
- Lentil and sweet potato dhal
- Oven roasted aubergine/eggplant with saffron yogurt dressing
- Ratatouille – two ways: easy, oven baked and classic
- Roast vegetables
- Roosterkoek – BBQ bread
- Sousboontjies / Butter bean salad
- Summer vegetable tian
- Sweet potato and chickpea salad
- Sweet potatoes with courgettes and chickpeas – Tunisian style
- Sweetcorn bake
- Tabbouleh
- Tartiflette – potatoes, bacon and Reblochon
- Velvety smooth potatoes
Soup
- Butternut Soup
- Cauliflower soup with smoky bacon
- Chestnut and foie gras “cappuccino”
- Chilled Cucumber and Avocado soup
- French onion soup – a real classic
- Hearty Carrot Soup /Potage de Crécy
- Hearty Chicken Chowder
- Jerusalem artichoke soup / Topinambour
- Lamb shank curry soup
- Mushroom soup en croûte
- Pea, lettuce and sorrel soup /soupe à l’oseille et petit pois
- Potato and leek soup, hot or cold (vichyssoise)
- Roasted Pepper Soup
- Soupe au Pistou / Provençal vegetable soup with pesto
- Spanish chickpea and chorizo soup – creamy, spicy,smoky goodness in a bowl
- Tomato soup with gnocchi
- White Bean & Bacon Soup
Stews
- Beef cheeks/ Daube de joue de boeuf
- Beef short ribs in red wine and port
- Blanquette de veau / Creamy veal stew
- Boeuf Bourguignon
- Braised lamb shanks with beer
- Bunny Chow
- Cabbage and lamb bredie – a South African speciality
- Calamari and chorizo with aïoli
- Cape Malay Chicken Curry
- Carbonnade Flamande – Flemish Beef and Beer Stew
- Chicken with chorizo, potatoes, chickpeas and lemons
- Chicken with wine and caramelized lemons
- Civet de Chevreuil / Venison stew
- Coq au Vin / Rooster in red wine
- Denningvleis
- Green-Bean Bredie
- Lamb shank curry soup
- Lamb Tagine
- Lentil and sweet potato dhal
- Melt in your mouth beef shin
- Osso Buco
- Oxtail Potjie – Insanely good South African oxtail stew
- Petit salé aux lentilles / Lentils and Salted Pork
- Poulet à la Marengo / Chicken Marengo
- Poulet Basquaise – chicken with peppers, ham, tomatoes and onions
- Poulet Vallée d’Auge / Chicken with apples, cream and Calvados
- Prawn and coconut curry
- Ragoût de Lapin / Rabbit Stew
- Rouelle de porc braisée/ Creamy braised pork with onions
- Sauté of Veal with Noilly Prat
- Slow cooked mutton curry with garam masala
- Spicy Brazilian chicken, chorizo and bean stew
- Spicy yoghurt chicken
- Tomato Bredie
- Turkey Osso Bucco
- Veal chops with girolles / Côtes de veau aux girolles
- Venison with prunes
South African
- Amarula truffles
- Beer Bread – the easiest bread you will ever make
- Braised lamb shanks with beer
- Bunny Chow
- Buttermilk Rusks
- Butternut Soup
- Butternut, Comté and almond tart
- Cape Brandy Pudding / Tipsy tart /Brandewyntert – ooh, so delicious! a very boozy dessert
- Cape Malay Chicken Curry
- Chakalaka
- Chicken Breyani
- Chicken sosaties
- Date balls
- Delicious Bobotie and yellow rice -South Africa on a plate
- Denningvleis
- Green-Bean Bredie
- Jan Ellis pudding
- Klappertert / Coconut tart
- Koeksisters
- Malva pudding – the ultimate South African comfort food
- Masala Lamb steaks
- Melkkos and Melksnysels – Afrikaans comfort food at its best
- Monkey Gland Sauce
- Oxtail Potjie – Insanely good South African oxtail stew
- Peppermint Crisp Tart
- Peri-Peri Prawns, finger licking delicious!
- Pickled Fish – a Cape Easter Tradition
- Roosterkoek – BBQ bread
- Sosaties – South African lamb kebabs
- Sousboontjies / Butter bean salad
- Spicy yoghurt chicken
- Steaks with bacon mushroom sauce
- Sweetcorn bake
- Tomato Bredie
- Venison with prunes
- Vetkoek
- Vinegar Pudding and Amarula- South African dessert combination made in heaven
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