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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

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

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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!

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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

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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!

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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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Old Fashioned Venison Pie

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

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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!

For the recipe 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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Beef fillet with red peppercorns and mushrooms

December 14, 2012 in Beef, Meat, Supper

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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!

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

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Ginger and Soy Stir Fry Pork with Jasmine Rice

July 27, 2012 in Meals in minutes, Meat, Pork, Uncategorized, Vegetables

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Ginger is one of those things that people either love or hate. I enjoy the taste a lot.

Ginger is also very healthy and research found that ginger is a powerful weapon in the treatment of ovarian cancer and can actually prevent colon cancer.

Ginger can also be successfully use for the treatment of morning and motion sickness. It is a natural heartburn remedy. It is most often taken in the form of tea for this purpose of heartburn, morning or motion sickness. Ginger has very positive effects upon the digestive tract, which makes it very effective in curing stomach ailments such as food poisoning.

Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties and is a powerful natural painkiller has long been used as a natural treatment for colds and the flu. Ginger may provide migraine relief due to its ability to stop prostaglandins from causing pain and inflammation in blood vessels.

For more information on the health benefits of ginger visit http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-ginger.html

For the recipe please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

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Chilli Con Carne with a potato topping

July 18, 2012 in Beef, Meat, Supper

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Tags: beans, Chilli Con Carne, Chilli Con Carne recipe, Chillies, Cowboy food, Meat, one-pot meal, Pinkpolkadot, recipe, supper

Chilli con carne is a wonderful one-pot dish. It is known as THE campfire dish made by cowboys! To me it brings back memories of John Wayne, sitting all alone next to his campfire, (with his horse, of course) and opening a tin of beans and a tin of tomatoes and mixing it with some meat, to cook the perfect Chilli Con Carne!

I use to make Chilli Con Carne quite often in the 80’s. At that stage you could buy tinned Chilli beans, and I used that for my chilli con carne. I also used cubed beef and never minced meat. The recipe that I used at that stage was the following:Heat 1 tablespoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of butter in a pot on the stove. Brown 125g of cubed bacon, 500g cubed beef, 2 chopped onions and 2 cloves of garlic in the butter-oil mixture. Add 125ml water, 1 x 400g tin of chilli beans, 1 x 400g tin of whole peeled tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper and sauté very slowly for 2 hours.

For some or the other reason I stopped making this delicious dish when my children was young, firstly because I thought they should not eat chillies and secondly because I thought they won’t enjoy the beans.

Luckily VG asked me to make this about a year ago and now it serves regularly on our menu and even my son loves it! I have adapted the recipe completely and now use minced beef for this. This specific version is the chilli con carne, covered with some partially cooked sliced potatoes and baked in the oven! Real delicious winter food!

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

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Pork and Pineapple kebabs

May 7, 2012 in Braai, Meat, Pork, Supper

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My Hubby use to love playing in the kitchen, but has not done it for the past couple of years. At last he got his mojo back and did he play this weekend!! Most of his food creations are either done on the braai or on the Weber.

The past weekend he took out his smoker and smoked some fish and chicken fillets. Especially the chicken fillets are delicious and I think it taste far better than any other smoked chicken that I have bought before.

He also made this pork and pineapple kebabs which were delicious.

I could only safe two of them to take some photos!

At least I took some photos before it was ready to be eaten!

The marinade, cooking away!

For the recipe please go to PinkPolkaDotFood.

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