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Hot tomato and Haloumi salad

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

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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!

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Onion, Cheese and Thyme Quiche

June 10, 2012 in Meatless Mondays, Quiche, Savory tart, Side Dish, Vegetarian

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Both my daughters were at home the last couple of days and I have enjoyed it so much! We talked and laughed and shopped and cooked together and there was hardly time to do anything else.

They both are finished writing exams and VG passed all her subjects! J BG’s results are not available yet, but I am convinced that she would be doing very well. She went to Zambia today. She will be there for three weeks, working at Chimfunshi as a volunteer. After this she will be at my MIL for two weeks on the farm between Sabie and Hazyview. I am already missing her terribly!

Luckily VG and Boykie is with us and I am enjoying them so much. They are so busy and bring such wonderful positive energy home. VG is very sad about the tennis, because her dearest Federer did not make the finals, but she is extremely happy that Sharopva won the women’s title!

Back to food, this Quiche were absolutely delicious and enjoyed by all of us, even Boykie!! One of the few vegetables he loves are onions!! So he thought this was great!

onion and cheese quiche with thyme

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Delicious Cheese and Onion Quiche

 

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Phyllo cheese pie with three cheeses for Meatless Monday

April 1, 2012 in Baking, Meatless Mondays, Side Dish, Vegetarian

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Cheese pie with gouda, feta and cottage cheese

We do not always have a meat free Monday, but we have a meatless day at least one day in a week and we became accustomed to this. 

My son does not eat vegetables. The only vegetables that he will eat are potatoes and cucumbers. This makes it very difficult to cook a meatless dish and I must be very creative, otherwise he will eat leftovers from the previous day or a sandwich. 

Luckily he loves pestos and cheese and eggs! If I really don’t know what to cook for him, I can make a pot of pasta and mix it with a pesto or sometimes I make an omelette. 

He loved these cheese pies and I will be making it again. 

I made the cheese pies at night so I could unfortunately only take pictures the following day. The pies did not look so crispy on the following day, but believe me it was delicious eaten straight after it was baked.

For the recipe. please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

Cheese pie

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Rustic biltong and three cheeses Cheesecake

August 25, 2011 in Baking, Beef, Lunch, Quiche, Savory tart

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Savoury tarts and quiches are very popular again. Almost every magazine that I have read in the last couple of months featured at least one savoury tart or quiche recipe.

 

It is also the same in Blogland. Nina from My-easy-cooking posted a recipe for a Biltong and butternut quiche and Ann from I love cooking posted a Cheesy onion and herb quiche recently. I think there were more posts on this subject which I can not remember at the moment!

 

 

A while back I posted a recipe for a Brocolli cheesecake and asked whether one should call it a savoury tart, a quiche or a savoury cheesecake. I have since investigated this and apparently the following is the difference:

  • Tarts can be a sweet or a savoury.
  • A Quiche is always a savoury dish and is normally deeper that a tart and always has a topping made from eggs and milk or cream. It is also always open (without a top crust).
  • Savoury cheesecakes contain either cream or cottage cheese or something similar. The filling is mixed together with the cream or cottage cheese and the egg custard and poured into the crust. It is never layered like a Quiche. Interesting, hey? 

But whatever these are called it makes for a quick and easy meal! This Cheesecake was inspired by a Biltong and Cheese Quiche recipe that was published in the August/September 2011 addition of Sarie Kos. This Savoury cheescake contains over and above the cottage cheese also cheddar, feta and parmesan cheese!

 

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