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The weekly menu

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

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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

Wednesday:Herby seafood and tomato soup with crusty breadrolls

To read more, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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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

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Tags: angelfish with pesto and tomatoes, beef, beef mince, braai, Chicken, chicken ceasar salad, chicken ghoulash, chocolate truffles, couscous salad, curry banana frikadelle, dessert, greek leg of lamb, ingredients, lemon meringue roulade, lentil bobotie, Menu, menu for a week, Pinkpolkadot, salads, side dishes, supper, weekly menu, what to have in your kitchen cupboard

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.

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Vegetarian Pasta Dish for Meatless Monday

December 10, 2012 in Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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Tags: Meatless Monay, Mediterranean pasta dish, Pasta, Pinkpolkadot, recipe, supper, vegetables, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Pasta Dish for Meatless Monday

I am celebrating my new blog with a Mediterranean vegetarian pasta dish for meatless Mondays!

Both my daughters are home for the holidays and I am so happy. I always feel so contend when all my children are sleeping under the same roof as me! It was a wonderful weekend with wonderful weather and we had so much fun together.

After all the delicious food that we ate, it was time for something less extravagant and healthier! This dish can be easily prepared when you are on holiday and are delicious!

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Please have a look at my new-look PinkPolkaDotFood blog! Your feedback will be appreciated!

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C O U L O R S and a vegetable pasta dish for spring!

September 17, 2012 in Lunch, Meals in minutes, Meatless Mondays, Pasta, Supper, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Weekend Themes

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Tags: colours, food, Pasta, Pinkpolkadot, recipe, supper, vegetable pasta, vegetables pasta dish, Vegetarian, vegetarian pasta end vegetable recipe, View from the side, weekend theme

One of my most beloved bloggers called SideView, post a theme very weekend, to inspire bloggers to blog over the weekend. The latest theme is Colours!

I cannot even begin to imagine what my life would be without colour!! I just love to see how the Western Cape turns from grey to green after the first winter rains! The same goes for the Highveld after the first summer rains!

I have taken so many photos of sunsets and every time I see another colourful one, I think it is better than the last!

beautiful

Seeing a yellow sunflower or almost any yellow flower always instantly lifts my mood, it does not matter how miserable I was feeling.

I feel so privileged to stay in Cape Town and to see Table Mountain every day in different hues of colour! I cannot even begin to describe the colours of the ocean, which will sometimes be grey, and then turquoise or aqua green and the next moment it would be sluggish brown. The next day it might be crystal blue!

I think much of my enjoyment of food is also linked to colour, whether it is the colour of the food itself or the way it is presented on a colourful plate or table cloth!

Since spring has sprung in Cape Town we have been eaten a lot of meat and fish, because hubs soooo enjoys braaing, so tonight I have made something without meat and very summery.

Please visit PinkPolkaDotFood for the recipe!

This dish is very quick to prepare and only needs a few ingredients!

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Pasta with a chicken liver sauce

August 16, 2012 in Bacon, Chicken, Food Bloggers Indaba, Pasta, Supper

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Tags: chicken livers, Chicken livers on pasta, chicken livers on pasta recipe, Fairview, family, Food Bloggers Indaba, Massel, Pasta, pasta sauce, recipe, supper

I attended the Food Bloggers Indaba in June, this year. It was a great event and we received 3 bags full of delicious goodies. I have used these goodies to create wonderful food, and this pasta with chicken livers was inspired by some of the things in our bags.

I craved chicken livers for quite some time now, but since my son does not eat this, I had to wait until one night he went out. Well, he chose Tuesday night to go and watch a musical at a local school and they would also have supper there.

Although I was glad that I could finely cook chicken livers, it was also an awful night to take him to attend the show! If you live in Cape Town, you will know that we really had violent storms and heavy rain recently. We also had some hail or ice rain, like some people described this.

Well, luckily he enjoyed his night out and we enjoyed our chicken livers!

At the FBI we received some Fairview Amazing Pinotage Rosé! VG and I opened it one night and it is one of the best Rosés, if not THE BEST, I have ever tasted. Unfortunately we could not drink all of it, so I added some to these chicken livers with some Massel’s Chicken Bouillon cubes that we also received in our goody bags. I really think this was the best chicken livers that I have ever made (or tasted).

For the recipe please go to PinkPolkaDot Food!

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Answers to Friday Food Quiz number 72 and what did you post on this day, a year ago?

June 19, 2012 in Beef, Curry, Food Quiz, Friday Food Quiz, Indian Food, Lamb, Meat, Pasta, Supper

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Tags: Answers to Friday Food Quiz number 72, bisque, bouillabaisse, cannelloni, Canneloni wit a meatloaf filling, Chaas, coats a spoon, Dhal-bhat-tarkari, food, Food questions, Food Quiz, funny, gazpacho, how to make cannelloni, Meadowsweet, meatloaf, Mulligatawny, Nepal’s favourite dish, Ouefs en Meurette, paneer, Pinkpolkadot’ Roghan Josh, Rendang, to butterfly

At last I am posting the answers to Food Quiz number 72. Thanks for everyone that participated and thanks for your patience!

Please visit the following bloggies who did the Quiz for brilliant answers:

Lavender and Lime

ViewfromtheSide’s blog

Skrikvirniks

1. What is a Rendang?

A – Rendang is an Indonesian dish made by simmering meat for hours in coconut milk and spices until the liquid has evaporated.

2. What does “to butterfly” means?

A – To cut food (usually meat or seafood) leaving one side attached and to open it out like the wings of a butterfly.

3. What is meadowsweet and what is it used for?

A – A culinary herb from Asia andEuropeused to flavour jams, stewed fruits and wine, as well as mead and Norfolk Punch.

4. What does Mulligatawny mean?

A – When translated directly it means “pepper water”.

5. What does the term “coats a spoon” means?

A – When a substance is rendered thin/thick enough so that when a wooden or metal spoon is inserted into it and taken out, the substance leaves a thin film “coating the spoon”.

6. What is “Ouefs en Meurette”?

A – It literally means “eggs in meurette sauce” and it is a French dish poaching eggs in red wine sauce.

7. What are the main ingredients of paneer?

A – Milk, lemon juice and water.

8. What is the name of Nepal’s most favorite dish?

A – Dhal-bhat-tarkari is eaten throughout the country. Dhal is a soup made of lentils and spices. It is served over a boiled grain, which is called bhat. The grain is usually rice but it can be another grain. This is served with vegetable curry called tarkari. This is served with a number of condiments such as chutney or atchar.

9. What is the main ingredient of Chaas?

A – Spiced buttermilk.

10. What do gazpacho, bouillabaisse and bisque have in common?

A – These are all soups.

On Sunday afternoon, whilst hubs took a nap, I as catching up on my favourite blogs. All of a sudden I was wondering what I have posted the previous year and the year before on that specific date.

I came to realize that my blog changed quite a lot. I the beginning years of my blog I used to post some jokes and other funnies. I also posted pics of my table settings quite often – can anyone still remember that?

On 19 June 2011 I posted this recipe for Canneloni with a meatloaf filling.

On 19 June 2010 I posted this recipe for Roghan Josh

On 19 June 2009 I posted this funny about a dog!

So what did you post on this day in previous years?

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Canneloni with a meatloaf filling, topped with a tomato sauce

June 19, 2011 in Beef, Meat, Pasta, Supper

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Tags: canneloni, Canneloni with meatloaf filling, meatloaf, Pasta, Pinkpolkadot, recipe, supper

My family and I spent a long time yesterday afternoon making this dish. It was quite a job, but we had loads of fun, and the end-result was wonderful.

I strongly suggest that you get some assistance when attempting this. It is a good dish to make when it is cold and raining outside. The heat in the kitchen will make the whole family smile!

Ingredients for the cannelloni pasta:

16 Homemade Pasta sheets, (rectangles of approximately 12 x 15 cm),made like this:

750ml cake flour

1.5ml salt

3 large eggs

10ml olive oil

Sift the flour and salt together and put onto a clean surface heaped up.

Make a well in the centre and add the eggs and the olive oil.

Using a fork, bring the flour in from the sides and mix with the eggs. Once it begins to form a soft dough, start to mix with your hands.

Knead the dough for approximately 4 minutes until smooth and elastic.

Divide the dough into 6 to 8 balls. Work with 1 ball at a time and keep the others covered. Flatten the ball slightly with the palm of your hand or a rolling pin.

Run the dough through the thickest setting of your pasta machine, fold up and run 3 times more through the thickest setting.

After this run it through the machine on a thinner setting and repeat through a thinner setting. (For cannelloni I just go through till the second last thinnest setting).

Cut into rectangles of 12 x 15cm and leave on clean cloths, until required.

For the rest of the recipe you will have to click here: Canneloni with a meatloaf filling, topped with a tomato sauce

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My weekend’s food!!

April 21, 2009 in Baking, Chicken, Dessert, Lamb, Lunch, Meat, Pasta, Poultry, Supper, Tables

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I never continued blogging last night, still wanted to say I have made Chicken Lasagne for Supper on Saturday night. It was the first time I have made this and it turned out very nice. (Was not so difficult at all!!)

Here is the recipe (It is from the Fatti’s and Moni’s Pasta Recipe Book):

Heat 30ml Olive Oil and 30ml Butter in a Pot. Fry one cubed onion, two large crushed Garlic Bulbs and 250g sliced Mushrooms, until soft. Remove from pot and add 1Kg Chicken fillets strips to the pot, (in batches), fry till brown. Once all the strips are browned add all the chicken to the pot, with the mushroom mixture and season with salt and black pepper. Add 5ml dry Thyme or 20 ml Fresh thyme and 250ml Chicken Stock. Cook for about 30 minutes until the chicken is very soft. Remove from heat and add 250ml cream and 60ml Sherry. Make a white sauce, whilst the Chicken is cooking with 100g Butter, 125ml flour and 1L of milk with salt and pepper to taste. Once the white sauce is ready add 60ml Parmesan Cheese (optional). Layer the dish as follows: Thin layer white sauce, Lasagne and then Chickensauce. Repeat layers and end with a thick layer of white sauce and sprinkle with 250ml Cheddar Cheese and some more Parmesan (optional). Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. Rest for 15 -20 minutes and voila enjoy!! We ate this with garlicbread and salad. It is quite a large amount of food and can feed at least 10 – 12.

Here is a photo of the preparations:

We also had Leg of Lamb for Lunch on Sunday (seems like all the bloggers ate that for lunch on Sunday!!). I wanted to try one of the nice recipes, but was to lazy and just stuffed it with garlic, seasoned with salt and Jenny’s Lemon Pepper. Put some fresh rosemary with it in a Romertoph, oven roasted for 2 hours. This I served with Potatoes cooked in cream, oven roasted seasonal veggies and a salad. With the exception of the cucumber, all the other salad ingredients came from my garden,. No pudding, but we ate cupcakes, which I have baked earlier the weekend and iced on Sunday afternoon, for Supper. (My children really enjoy my “healthy” Sunday suppers!!)

Sunday Lunch:

Salad:

Sunday’ s supper – don’t you just think my Cupcakestand is toooo cute?

Well, I must go to Stellenbosch to fetch my Girlie. First time that she is allowed to vote!!

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The weekly menu

The weekly menu

Weekly Menu

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

Vegetarian Pasta Dish for Meatless Monday

C O U L O R S and a vegetable pasta dish for spring!

Pasta with a chicken liver sauce

Answers to Friday Food Quiz number 72 and what did you post on this day, a year ago?

Canneloni with a meatloaf filling, topped with a tomato sauce

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