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Warm baby potato salad with baby aubergines and eggs

April 15, 2013 in Lunch, Salad, Salads, Sauce, Side Dish, Supper, Vegetarian

We always associate salads with summer, but potato salad is just as nice served warm as it is cold.

Potato salad is mostly served with mayonnaise. Since my one daughter dislikes mayonnaise I am always experiencing with new potato salad combinations that do not contain mayonnaise. I love adding aubergines to potatoes. The combination just works for me.

This warm salad was a winner and was loved by everyone that ate it. It can be served as a vegetarian main dish or as a side dish.

For the recipe, please visit PinkPolkaDotFood.

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.

Hot tomato and Haloumi salad

February 21, 2013 in Lunch, Meals in minutes, Meatless Mondays, Salad, Salads, Side Dish, Starter, Vegetarian

I won some tickets to the Cape Dairy Experience and a cheese hamper from Karoo Goat’s milk products, late last year. Included in this hamper was some Halloumi cheese.

Since I wanted to emphasize the slightly salted taste of the halloumi I decided to make a hot tomato and fried halloumi salad and served it with some crusty bread as a light lunch. The salad can also be served as a starter.

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Chicken and Mango salad

February 19, 2013 in Chicken, Fruit, Lunch, Meals in minutes, Poultry, Salad, Salads, Supper

For me summer would not be the same without mangoes. I adore this wonderful versatile fruit and luckily it is available in South Africa from Decemeber to April.

Not only do I love to eat a mango as is but I also enjoy experimenting with it in all kinds of dishes as you will see with the mango ice cream I made recently and this mango mousse.

Recipe for a chicken and mango salad

My family loved this chicken and mango salad. Please visit PinkPolkaDotFood for the recipe!

Chicken salad with mangoes

Roasted couscous and vegetable salad

October 24, 2012 in fresh, Herbs, Meatless Mondays, Salad, Side Dish, Vegetarian

“What is couscous?” No, this is not the Friday Food Quiz, this is the question my son asked recently when I made this salad. Hubs answered: “It must be made with mealiemeal (a coarse flour made from corn), because it tastes like putu pap (crumbly porridge) and that is why I like it.” My son’s answer: “That is why I DON’t like it!” 

So what is couscous? Actually, couscous is a pasta, not a grain. It is made by mixing semolina (coarsely ground durum wheat) and water, and then shaping into the little “grains” of pasta. The pasta is then coated with flour to prevent them from sticking to each other. 

I told my son that it is a pasta and he still doesn’t want to eat it, because he does not like the texture! 

I have added both fresh coriander and fresh mint to this salad, which gave it a fresh taste. One would think that it will not pair well together because both these herbs have strong distinctive tastes of its own, but it worked wonderfully in this recipe.

Roasted vegetable and couscous salad recipe

You can serve this as a meatless main dish or as a side dish.

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood.

Couscous salad recipe

 

The most delicious creamy dressing that you will ever taste!

September 5, 2012 in Lunch, Meals in minutes, Meatless Mondays, Salad, Salads, Supper, Vegetables, Vegetarian

I started blogging in April 2009 after I had been reading some very inspiring food blogs on Food24. One of these blogs was the loveable Nina Timm’s My Easy Cooking.

Although I only met Nina last year, we immediately had a connection via cyberspace and I regard her as a very good friend.

Nina’s blog is very successful and she speaks on RSG every Thursday, just after nine and sometimes she invites fellow bloggers or foodies to her show. She is regarded as one of the leaders in food blogging in South Africa and also won the Eat In award in 2012 as the best food blogger.

I use to make this creamy dressing when I still had my coffee shop, but I had totally forgotten about it and how to make it. A couple of weeks ago one of my old customers stopped me in my local supermarket and told me how she misses the food at the Coffee shop and specifically the creamy dressing and asked for the recipe. Unfortunately I could not give it to her because I couldn’t remember it.

When Nina invited me to be her guest at RSG tomorrow, 6 September 2012, I started experimenting with the recipe for the creamy dressing  until it tasted as good as I could remember!

creamy dressing with walnuts and cottage cheese recipe

This dressing is very versatile and can be served on salads, with fish, chicken or with vegetables. I used to serve it with a chicken salad and a hot stir fried vegetable salad.

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Warm stir-fried vegetable salad with a creamy dressing recipe

Do tune in to RSG on Thursday morning, 6 September 2012, just after 9 to listen to Nina and I telling you about this recipe. You can also listen online here.

 

Aubergine and bocconcini salad for meatless Mondays

April 22, 2012 in fresh, Meatless Mondays, Salad, Vegetarian

I found the cutest baby Augergines at Checkers a couple of days ago! I was immediately inspired and knew that I would love to make a salad with this; something with cheese! So I went to the cheese counter and saw this mozzarella bocconcini cheese!! Bocconcini and Aubergine, what a delicious combination! 

Baby eggplant

Once at home, I just could not think of anything, so I searched the Internet and found a salad on Real food which inspired this dish! One of the ingredients were fresh basil and the other one fresh mint, which I have plentiful in my herb garden at the moment. Fresh basil in the garden

Mint in the garden

This was one of the most delicious Vegetarian meals that I have ever eaten! Serve this salad with some French loaf to get the most of the wonderful salad sauce!

Aubergine and bocconcini salad

please go to PinkPolkaDotFood for the recipe!

Eggplant salad

Blueberry salad

March 30, 2012 in Meatless Mondays, Monthly Mingle, Salad, Vegetarian

I love food, (as if you did not know that already!), but I absolutely adore berries and cherries. 

As a child we rarely had the privilege of eating fresh berries and cherries. We ate strawberries and of course mulberries, which was plentiful, but never blueberries, cranberries, gooseberries or any other berries. I spoke to a friend a couple of days ago who said she has never tasted fresh cherries?!! How sad! 

Berries are irresistible for most people. A couple of weeks ago we were at the Stellenbosch Slowfood market and the Mulberry tree was bearing fruit and almost every person that walked past could not resist picking a few and eating them! 

I always dreamt of living on a farm and growing loads of berries and having a cherry tree lane! 

This month’s Monthly Mingle, hosted by Christina who runs the blog Mele Cotte is to prepare something using berries or cherries.

My sister made this salad as part of Christmas lunch and I decided that it would be my contribution to this month’s monthly mingle!

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Meatless Mondays: Pasta salad with sweet red pepper Pesto

March 25, 2012 in fresh, Meatless Mondays, Salad, Salads, Vegetarian

In all the time that we have been living in Cape Town I have never experienced such a beautiful summer like this year!! 

We stayed at the Table View beachfront for 9 years and I always use to tell everyone that the wind is blowing 360 days a year in Cape Town. We moved to Pinelands for a year and I could not believe how amazing the weather was. This year we moved back to Table View, but not at the beachfront, and the weather has been wonderful with no wind!! 

This summer we have been eating mostly salads at night Al fresco. 

This Pasta salad is a wonderful dish for Meat free Mondays, but it can also be served as a side dish!

Please go to PinkPolkaDotFood for the recipe.

Vegetarian pasta salad with sweet red pepper pesto, olives and feta

 

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