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Mom’s Chicken Liver Pate travels around the world and back!

September 19, 2012 in Uncategorized

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How my mom’s Chicken Liver Pate got to travel around the world and back is a rather long story and you can read all about it here, but I have to tell you this: Tomorrow morning ( Thursday morning )will be a very special  morning for me. Not that every other morning is not special, but this one is rare and precious. You see, I will not only meet a school friend that I have last seen in Primary school, but he will be cooking with me in the RSG Studio, because he is currently in South Africa. Chef Pieter van Zyl will be making my mom’s Chicken Liver Pate on RSG tomorrow, because he found the recipe off My Easy Cooking and it is a huge hit in his restaurant in England.

See I told you it was special. To read the whole story and the recipe, visit:

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Tune in to RSG tomorrow (100-104FM) morning (Thursday)just after 9 when I share a different easy recipe from My Easy Cooking. You can also listen online here!
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This weekend I will be cooking up a storm in the Philips stand on the JHB Good Food and Wine Show. Please come and say hello, I would love to meet you! You can win prizes too!

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Quick ‘n Easy Mediterranean Chicken

August 24, 2012 in Uncategorized

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All the goodness in one tray!

If I see the word “Mediterranean”, my mind immediately goes to Shirley Valentine, the Liverpool mom, who regularly spoke to her wall and who one day just left a note on the fridge and deserted her chips-n-eggs eating husband and heads off to Greece for a fortnight of rest and relaxation.  I think I have two things in common with Shirley……
the one is that my husband would love chips-n-eggs more often than he gets it here in my kitchen and I am in desperate need of a fortnight’s rest and relaxation…. Chips-n-eggs I can fix tonight, but rest and relaxation will have to wait, so in the meantime, I can go to my happy place, the kitchen, and create a very simple Mediterranean meal with chicken, Mediterranean Delicacies Feta and Olives. Maybe I can invite Shirley and we can enjoy this simple, yet delicious meal and share a few life lessons in the process….. continue reading on

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Taste the Mediterranean!

 

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Michael Olivier wines and cooks a little on RSG

August 16, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Michael Olivier - Food and Wine Guru

Michael Olivier is a legend in South African Food and Wine circles. No wonder his Twitter handle is @FoodWineGuru and to top it all, he is always so willing and eager to share this vast knowledge of South Africa’s finest wines. So many people ask me about food and wine pairing and because I do not drink any wine, I have asked Michael to join me in the RSG studio this Thursday to give some easy and valuable advise on wine!

Michael has prepared this simple supper reminiscent of Normandy. Normandy has no grapes so he used cider in his dish.For the recipe, continue reading ….

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Chicken Normandy

More Easy Chicken Casseroles

 Fruity Chicken Bake

 Roast Chicken Pasta Bake

My Famous Chicken Breyani  

 Tune in to RSG  (100-104FM) this morning (Thursday)just after 9 when I share a different easy recipe from My Easy Cooking. You can also listen online here!

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Cheap as Chips – Chips Chicken!

July 27, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Cheap as Chips, but so rich in flavor!

Years ago, Chips Chicken was such a fad, everyone made it together with cute little chips sandwiches and chips rolls.  I think it was popular  because it was a place where mothers and children agreed. Mothers who tried to feed their children a healthy diet and children who only wanted to eat junk food. Healthy, definitely not, but delicious none the less and with a cheese sauce to boot,  Chips Chicken is still a firm favorite even after all these years.

You will not believe that 5 ingredients and so little time can result in such flavor and popularity, but try this easy recipe and you will be ever so popular with dad and the kiddos…

Chips Chicken

Ingredients
6 chicken fillets with skin ( the skin prevents the chicken from drying in the oven)
1 x 125 g Cheese and Onion Chips
1 egg – beaten with a little milk
125 ml flour
1 t barbecue spice

Method
Place the chips in a plastic bag and with a rolling pin, bash the chips until it becomes course crumbs. Place in a plate. Beat the egg and milk together and place in another bowl and lastly mix the flour and the seasoning and place in a 3rd bowl. Place a chicken breast between 2 layers of plastic and with a meat mallet, lightly beat the chicken to make a “schnitzel”. Repeat with all the chicken breasts. Now one-by-one dip the chicken first into the flour, shake off the excess flour, then into the egg mixture and lastly into the crumbs. Repeat with all the chicken. Place on a baling sheet and allow to set in the fridge for about 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 180C. Bake the chicken in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Smother in a velvety Cheese sauce to make it even better!

For a luscious Cheese Sauce recipe to serve with the chicken, visit

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 More tasty Chicken Recipes

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Mom, this chicken tastes like KFC

Another Retro classic - Coke Chicken

Roast Chicken Pasta Bake

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Delicious Butter Chicken by Masterchef’s Ilse Nel for RSG

July 18, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Our stunning Chef

I have had many renditions of butter chicken in my life and I have heard so many explanations for the name butter chicken, but I can truly say I have NEVER eaten Butter Chicken quite as delicious as today’s lunch. In true Masterchef style, Ilse Nel, made a killer version of this popular Indian Curry. My only problem with the curry was
that it was not nearly enough. I could have had it again for supper, no problem! It is however, as I one can derive from the name, not a dish for the faint-hearted when it comes to calories. Butter chicken does not refer to the tenderness of the chicken, but as I suspected the dish is laden with butter, yogurt and yes…..wait for it….cream. Utterly decadent and scandalously delicious!

Ilse’s Butter Chicken

Buttery and scandalously delicious

Please tune in to RSG tomorrow morning just after 9 when we make this delicious Butter Chicken .100-104FM or listen online at www.rsg.co.za

More delicious Curries

 Citrussy Chicken Curry 

Thai Crab Curry

 Curry Meatballs with Onion and Banana Relish

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Coq au what????

June 11, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Under Cover Coq au Vin....

Coq au What??????? My hubby’s reaction when I told him what was for supper!

Coq Au Vin  in essence is an ordinary French chicken stew, but if you choose your ingredients wisely, there is nothing ordinary about this dish. In fact, it is hard to imagine that a few mushrooms, some countryside bacon or lardons, a delicious red wine and  a couple of handfuls of herbs, can become such a flavorsome stew.
The “coq” in Coq Au Vin refers to an old rooster or bird that is traditionally used, because the bones of an older bird, yields such fragrant stock. I am not going to lie to you, honestly, I do not have the time to hunt for “older birds”, but I do use Elgin free-range chicken and have never been disappointed, so for me it was the obvious choice. So although in the eye of a coq au vin purist, I may have compromised by not using an older bird, there are other steps in the recipe that I think are as important and you should not skip or alter them. I know that I swore to never make another after the glorious Meraai se Paai which featured here not so long ago, but this is not a pie…..rather an

Under Cover Coq a vin

Rich, flavorsome and delicious with or without a blanket

More delicious Chicken Recipes…

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Roast Chicken Perfected on RSG!

May 23, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Roasting Perfection

So you want to know my secret…… once again, my ancestors beat me to it. Yes indeed, my mom and grandma had method to their madness and I figured it out this week while making roast chicken for my family. You see, for as long as I can remember, my mother always rinsed her meat and chicken in a bowl of salted water. I was always told that it was to wash off all possible germs and impurities and maybe in their minds that was the only reason, but they also always produced the most incredible crispy and sticky chicken and braised meat. How? Why? I have tried so many methods, but nothing was quite the same……….until now…
Brining of meat before roasting has become quite a trend lately and with my mother’s age-old method and this new technique, things were beginning to make a whole lot of sense to me…..brining before grilling…..that’s the secret to moist, succulent meat and crispy sticky skin…. I will try and make it as simple as possible.

How to get that perfect crispy skin…..

Succulent, moist and delicious

Tune in to RSG tomorrow (100-104FM) morning (Thursday)just after 9 when I share a different easy recipe from My Easy Cooking. You can also listen online here!

More Chicken Recipes

Gordon Ramsay’s Chicken
 Fruity Chicken Bake
  Crumbed Chicken
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Meraai se Chicken Pie on RSG

May 16, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Chicken Pie ala Bloemfontein

Meraai se Chicken Pie will feature on my radio slot tomorrow morning on RSG. I do not know who Meraai was or where this pie comes from, but it certainly is the best Chicken Pie I have EVER had. I must have known that a pie of this caliber can only come from Bloemfontein……..hearty, comforting, unforgettable …..just like the people from Bloemfontein.
Yes, I warned you about getting tired of my Bloemfontein ravings, but what can I say, I’m hooked. Last Tuesday night, while I was there, my friend Retha Cronje invited me to supper. On arrival at her house she told me that she made a pie …. Meraai se Chicken Pie! The aromas coming from her kitchen should have been warning enough that his was going to be legendary. The pie she took from the oven, was a thing of beauty……huge too! Need I say more…the pie was so delicious, the company as warm and heartfelt as the pie and as we sunk into our chairs to watch Masterchef South Africa….. great was our amusement when the challenge for the night was……you guessed it….Meraai se Pie! If only the contestants had this recipe! I am sure you could easily feed 8-10 people on it and have a little leftover for a lunchbox the next day.

Meraai se Chicken Pie

comfort in a cup

More tasty pies to chose from

Retha’s Favorite Fish Pie

Shepperd’s Pie

Potato and Spinach Pie

Tune in to RSG tomorrow (100-104FM) morning (Thursday)just after 9 when I share a different easy recipe from My Easy Cooking. You can also listen online here!

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Scrumptious Moroccan Chicken Pie

April 25, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Moroccan Chicken Pie

This Moroccan Chicken Pie was so delicious and if this is the kind of quality tried and tested recipes I can expect to find in Jane-Anne”s new cookbook, I certainly cannot wait for its arrival on our shelves mid 2012. I have yet to meet another cook, who is more meticulous with measurements and writing down a recipe…..
I met Jane-Anne at the first Foodbloggers Indaba where she was a co-speaker and I remember her talk as if it was yesterday and then already she emphasized the importance of testing and testing a recipe to make sure it is correct. After all, people trust your recipe when they go out and buy the ingredients, so we as  bloggers, authors and recipe developers have a responsibility not to break that trust.
Enough preaching…..Jane made this delightfully different chicken pie when she came to cook in my kitchen with two other bloggers, The Foodfox and Food and the Fabulous.
I was fascinated by the way she cooked the chicken, but all the trouble and effort was so worth it, the pie was so scrumptious with hints of the Middle East with the last sprinkling of cinnamon on the top. So next time you want to try something special for dinner, give this Moroccan Chicken Pie a go!

More of Jane-Anne’s Scrumptious recipes 

Mini Meatloaves

 

 Rum and Raisin Chocolate Truffles
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Fruity Chicken Bake

April 15, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Sticky, lip-smacking chicken

Lip smacking, rib sticking, finger-licking fruity chicken bake. Sorry folks, got a bit carried away, but be prepared to write this recipe down quite a few times. You can of course just send them to My Easy Cooking and save yourself the trouble. Unless of course you want me to be your closet chef…I don’t mind at all, just make the fruity chicken, you’ll be so glad you did.
This has been such a fantastic week. So many amazing things have happened for which I am so grateful. I have learned that persistence and dedication pays off and that every dark cloud does indeed have a silver lining. I will reveal all these wonderful new things to you in days to come, but for now all I can say is….”stick around!”
Talking about “Stick(y)” around….this Fruity Chicken Bake is just that….. sweet and sticky and utterly delicious!

Fruity Chicken Bake

Another helping?

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