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Mexican Mince soup with Tacos

May 15, 2013 in Beef, Meat, Soup

So autumn in Cape Town this year is really something special. We’re having some wonderfully warm days and at night you get a hint of just how cold this coming winter will be.

One thing I love about winter in Cape Town is that it is perfect soup weather! If you and your family enjoy Mexican food this Mexican mince soup will be a particular hit in your house!

Add some guacamole to intensify those rich Mexican flavours and you might just have a new favourite winter meal.

For the recipe, please visit PinkPolkaDotFood!

 

The weekly menu

May 5, 2013 in Baking, Beef, Biscuits, Chicken, Dessert, Lamb, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Pork, Poultry, Seafood, Soup, Weekly Meny

I get lots of e-mails of people telling me how they appreciate the weekly menu with a shopping list and that makes this so worthwhile.

If you do not like any of the dishes on this week’s menu or feel that it is too expensive, simply replace it with a dish from the previous weekly menus!

Monday: Vegetable stir fry with a creamy dressing

Hot vegetable salad

Wednesday:Herby seafood and tomato soup with crusty breadrolls

Soup

To read more, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

 

 

The weekly menu

April 8, 2013 in Bacon, Baking, Beef, Braai, Chicken, Curry, Dessert, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pork, Poultry, Seafood, Side Dish, Soup, Supper, Sweets, Weekly Meny

I never had time over the Easter weekend to do a menu for the week, but at last here is one for this week! I do acknowledge the fact that some people did not find the last menu budget friendly, but my excuse is that it was Easter and my family and I regard Easter as very special, so I went overboard with some of the dishes on the menu.

To see some budget friendly meals please visit fellow-blogger Sous Chef’s blog. Most of her blog posts are budget friendly, and I am just going to “borrow” some of her food posts to include in the weekly menu in feature.

For Monday:  Spicy butternut and orange soup with bread rolls

For Saturday: Buttery potato mash with beef burgundy

Dessert of the week: Apple filled pancakes with a caramel sauce

To see more of the weekly menu with a shopping list please visit PinkPolkaDotFood!

The weekly menu

March 24, 2013 in Bacon, Baking, Biscuits, Braai, Chicken, Curry, Lamb, Lunch, Meals in minutes, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pork, Poultry, Quiche, Savory tart, Side Dish, Supper, Sweets, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weekly Meny

I think most schools have already closed for the Easter holidays and you want to spend time with your loved ones. Therefore, I am sure that you do not want to spend too much time in the kitchen. Although most of the recipes in this week’s menu are not quick to prepare, I hope I will at least save you some time to decide what you are going to cook this week. I am also including a shopping list to make it even easier for you!

Tuesday: Pizza Quiche

Dessert for the week: Chocolate Tartlets

Treat for the week: Chocolate biscuits!

To read more go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

The weekly menu

March 17, 2013 in Baking, Biscuits, Braai, Chicken, Dessert, Fish, Lamb, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Pork, Poultry, Quiche, Savory tart, Seafood, Side Dish, Supper, Sweets, Vegetarian

Things in life do not always work out according to plan, but I strongly believe that God’s plan is always better. I was planning to attend the Eat-Out produce awards at the Old Biscuit Mill on Friday night where it was announced that the very talented Anel Potgieter from the blog “Life is a Zoo biscuit” is the Food Blogger of the year.

BlondieGirl was however writing a test on Friday morning and asked me to fetch her at 13:00 in Stellenbosch. I left earlier since I first wanted to go to an Antique shop in Stellenbosch and arrived at 12:30. Just after one BG phoned me to say that there was a terrible fire the previous night in Kayamandi that left 600 families (about 3000 people) homeless. She is on the Student Committee and her portfolio is Community Service and she had to do some things to arrange for volunteers, etc to assist the people affected by the fire. She asked whether I would be prepared to wait and help her with the arrangements for approximately 2 hours. Of course I said yes. In the end she only finished just before 18:00, which meant we could not attend the awards. I was admittedly not too upset as it felt good to be able to assist some fellow South Africans – albeit in a small, minute way.

This afternoon was mostly spent on preparing the weekly menu – I am so grateful that I am able to do this! I have a house, food and many luxuries that loads of people in South Africa does not have!

The weekly menu:

Monday: Onion, Cheese and Thyme Quiche

Dessert of the week: Chocolate swissroll with orange mousse filling

Treat of the week: Unbaked brownies

To read more on the weekly menu please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Old Fashioned Venison Pie

March 14, 2013 in Meat, Savory tart, Supper, Venison

My Mother’s venison pie was the best in the world, so when one of Hubby’s friends recently gave him some springbok meat, I immediately start searching for my Mother’s recipe.

I could unfortunately not find her recipe, but found a recipe by Carmen Niehaus that sounded close to my Mother’s recipe. I adapted this recipe to make my Mother’s old fashioned venison pie and this was the best venison pie that I have ever tasted!

Pie made with venison meat

For the recipe please go to PinkPolkaDotFood.

Old fashioned venison pie

Weekly Menu

March 10, 2013 in Baking, Beef, Braai, Chicken, Dessert, Fish, Lamb, Lunch, Meals in minutes, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Pork, Poultry, Salad, Salads, Sauce, Seafood, Starter, Supper, Sweets, Vegetables, Weekly Meny

One of my friends asked me to post a weekly menu with a shopping list. Unfortunately I said yes, without realising how much work will go into something like that! This week I was challenged / asked by many more people to do this, so I did it again!

I hope everyone that reads my blog will find this valuable!

Monday: Mushroom Potpies with a green salad.

Tuesday: Warm lamb and vegetable Salad (Use leftover lamb from Sunday)

Treat: Chocolate and dried apricot muffins

For the rest of this menu go to PinkPolkaDotFood.

 

PinkPolkaDot’s menu for a week from 4 to 10 March 2013-03-03

March 4, 2013 in Bacon, Baking, Beef, Braai, Chicken, Curry, Dessert, Fish, Lamb, Meals in minutes, Meat, Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Pork, Poultry, Salad, Salads, Seafood, Side Dish, Supper, Sweets, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weekly Meny

One of my friends, who enjoys reading my blog, recently requested me to a weekly menu, with a list of the ingredients required. I agreed to this and this is my first weekly menu. I have never realised how much work it will be, but will try my best to do this on a weekly basis.

Please note that the ingredient list does not include general ingredients such as salt, pepper, oil, cake flour, milk, bread, sugar, eggs, butter, etc.

Monday: Lentil Bobotie with rice and tomato sambal and banana sambal

Tuesday: Chicken ghoulash served with tagliatelle

Wednesday: Curry banana frikadelle served with mashed potatoes and a green salad

To see the rest of the menu and the list of required ingredients, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood.

Beef fillet with red peppercorns and mushrooms

December 14, 2012 in Beef, Meat, Supper

I love fillet steak, but it is very expensive. In Cape Town you can easily pay R200 per kilogram. If you have a family like mine who eats large portions of meat, it becomes very expensive to buy beef fillet.

I went to Malmesbury, recently, to fetch my son’s ID book and one of the butcheries was selling beef fillet for less than half the price that we pay in Cape Town. Of course I had to stock up.

Some people say that fillet is tasteless, but I love it. My favourite way of cooking fillet can be found here or try this beef fillet and radicchio salad.

I just love the simplicity of this recipe! Just remember that red peppercorns are very hot!

fillet

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Beef roast

Lamb Sosaties

October 18, 2012 in Braai, Curry, Lamb, Meat, Supper

Recently I read on someone’s blog about lamb sosaties (I can unfortunately not remember on whose blog?). It reminded me of these lamb sosaties. Some years back, when we were still living in Pretoria, I was asked by our church to make 12 dozen lamb sosaties.

For weeks before the event I made sosaties, testing different marinades and flavour combinations. Friends and family was forced to eat sosaties for about 4 weeks in a row and this recipe was the one that everyone enjoyed the most. I made it a few times after this event and then got tired of it.

After reading about this lamb and dried apricot sosaties, I was so craving this that I just had to make it again. If you are looking for something really delicious to braai over the weekend, try this!

curry lamb sosatie recipe

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

lamb kebab recipe

If you liked this recipe, then I am convinced you will also enjoy this Lamb skewer recipe!

lamb on rosemary skewers

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