This past week we’ve had the most beautiful weather, warm and sunny during the days and only slightly chilly at night. But it seems like the cold front is hitting us and when that happens I need serious comfort food. Risotto is probably one of the most comforting foods out there but unfortunately I don’t always have the patience to stand in front of the stove stirring the pot (even though my friend, Chef to the celebs, Neill Anthony told me that boiling the rice for 8 minutes before making the risotto cuts the time down to almost nothing). The thing with baking risotto is that the end result is…
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Posts Tagged ‘Sage’
If you told me 3 years ago that I would be cooking Pork with Apples I would’ve told you, you are insane! I despised cooked fruit in any way, shape or form and paired with meat? You would have had to tie me down and forcefully shove it in my mouth to get me to taste it. I really didn’t like sweet flavours with meat. Fast forward a few years and here I am, happily cooking pork, sautéing apples and enjoying it! My taste buds have definitely come a long way since starting my food blog. I always enjoyed food and cooking but being introduced to food, ingredients and combinations I would’ve…
For this horrible cold-but-not weather we’ve been experiencing in Gauteng the last couple of days, this is the perfect dish. Just enough comfort to get you through but not heavy or too rich. I got the idea for this yummy dish from the new Nigella. She used Pappardelle and Blue cheese with her dish but I was craving the smooth and sharp creaminess of goat’s cheese so I knew that would be an obvious replacement. I actually can’t remember if she used fried sage, but I just love it so much I had to add it, after all, sage and butternut are meant to be together. This is one of…
Whilst thinking of ways to best showcase herbs, I knew I had to do something with Chicken. I love chicken because it’s such a great ‘canvas’ to carry other flavours. And one of my favourite ways of cooking it, is just like this. Loads of lemon juice, mustard and herbs. The chicken just comes alive after being marinated in this mixture and after roasting, the salty skin is just to die for. This marinade can also be done in a two different ways. You could either just blitz everything in the food processor until it’s a thick-ish paste to spread on the chicken or you could chop all the herbs…
