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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 top 10 recipe posts for 2012 and a competition

January 25, 2013 in Competitions

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After reading Food24’s top 20 blog posts, based on the amount of view, I was keen to see which of my recipe posts received the most views in 2012. It was more difficult than I anticipated, since my blog had a name change in the middle of 2012, but with the assistance of my blog designer (she can be contacted at http://www.shrewdbydesign.com/) I could establish which were my most reviewed recipe posts for 2012.

I decided to turn this into a competition and you stand a chance of winning a copy of Tessa Kiros’s latest book Limoncelo and Lime water! Just tell my which of my top 10 posts, you think were 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd in 2012 and like my facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/PinkPolkaDotFood. This competition is only open for South African citizens. The competition will close on Friday, 1 February at 23:00. The winner will be announced on Monday, 4 February 2012.

To see the top 10 posts, please visit PinkPolkaDotFood!

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LAVENDER HEART BISCUITS

December 5, 2012 in Baking, Biscuits, Food events

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Tags: baking, biscuit recipes, biscuits, Cape Town Cookie swap, checker board biscuits, cookie recipes, cookies, festive baking, lavender hearts, melting moments, old fashioned ginger biscuits, Pinkpolkadot, recipes, shortbread, shortbread stars

Loads of people asked me about the cookie swap / exchange, after my recent “In my Kitchen” post. The Cape Town Cookie swap was arranged by Katie Coetzee and two fellow bloggers, Hilla from the blog Add to taste and Ishay from the blog Food and the Fabulous.

This is what the invitation said:

”Join us for the second annual feel-good event of its kind in Cape Town, an exchange of good vibes. After the success of our 2011 event we would love get all the food lovers of CPT to gather and share recipes and cheer, whilst sipping away the trials and tribulations of 2012. Another very important aspect of this year’s event will be raising money for Nazareth House.

The low down: Whip out your best recipe, sweet or savoury and bring 60 small cookies or homemade sweets/chocs/goodies/yummies – you are not limited to cookies only. Any and all delicious recipes are welcome! Even no-bake chocs and treats are well come for the non-bakers.

Bring a batch – and 6 copies of the recipe. (Each person will be grouped off into groups of 6, and will swap 10 cookies with each cookie mate. In essence, you go home with 6 x 10 different cookies.)

Also, bring R30 for Nazareth house residents. You’re welcome to bring any store bought, long-life cookies to add to the box for them, if you like.

Stay and chat with old friends and new friends, while sipping on something hot or something cold.

We will have some lovely surprises AND lucky draws. ”

So, that was it, everyone brought 60 cookies and 6 copies of their recipes. Space was limited so we were not divided into groups. Everyone’s cookies were placed on a long table and everyone could take as many of the cookies that they liked. (There were also some gluten-free cookies.) I got home with a variety looking like this:

These were packed and I was lucky enough to get some. Don’t you think it is just so cute?

The best of all is that money was raised for Nazareth house’s residents!

I made these lavender hearts since they are one of my favourite cookies to bake. I just love the texture of the dough. The recipe is an adaption of Kanya Hunt’s recipe.

The lavender can be replaced by rosemary, thyme, grounded coffee beans lemon rind, orange rind or vanilla!

For the recipe, please go to PinkPolkaDotFood!

You can also make different sized shaped cookies and stack them together with a little bit of butter icing, like I did for the cookie exchange.

Did you enjoy this, then I am sure you will love my old fashioned ginger biscuits or checker board biscuits or melting moments or shortbread stars with lemon glace!

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Something old, something new

May 21, 2012 in Meatless Mondays, Non-Food, Soup, Vegetarian, Weekend Themes

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Tags: mushroom recipes, mushroom soup, mushrooms, mushrooms stuffed with mashed peas, peas, Pinkpolkadot, recipes, strange mushrooms, stuffed mushrooms

View from the side’s weekend theme is “something old, something new”.

Since I had some very strange new visitors to my garden lately, I decided to do a post on mushrooms.

My something old is two mushroom recipes, that I blogged about a long time ago. The first one is a mushroom soup and you can find the recipe here!

The second one is mushrooms stuffed with mashed peas and you can find the recipe here.

My something new is photos of strange mushrooms that were in my garden recently. We have an area under one specific tree where there are always mushrooms growing. They look like white and brown large mushrooms, similar to the brown mushrooms that can be bought at any greengrocer.

These ones are however totally different. This beautiful one was growing in my garden about a month ago:

mushroom 1

These ones are growing in my garden currently. It seems like they start out looking like this:

and then change to look like this:

and in the end they look quite awful and colour everything around them black:

I have never seen mushrooms like these ones but find it quite intriguing. If you have any information about them please let me know.

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