A journey through world cuisine from A-Z
A journey through world cuisine from A-Z
As we’ve ventures out, seeking cuisines to cook, we’ve come across many ideas for recipes, and we wanted to share them with you here. All original sources are linked, of course, and where we strayed / improvised, we explain what we did differently from the original (and whether it was an improvement or not…).
Some of these are entirely our own! We do hope you try them out and enjoy them. Leave a comment!
Some of the recipes though are our own.
And props 😉 I is mine. And various ideas for it were proposed to me or thought up by myself. But none excited brain or pallet (Imperial with Coronation chicken and Mongolian mutton, or Pasta a-la-Romana? Idiotic & Infantile – fun idea, but super boring food (jam sandwiches? fish fingers?) Then, dangerously close to the …
Audaces Fortuna Iuvat! – Fortune favours the brave. In the kitchen, our host, Idit, is certainly that (I claim no knowledge of other departments). For our G dinner, she picked the theme “Gladiator” – the slave-warrior-showmen of the Roman Empire’s Games. This meant researching how these men were fed back in antiquity, procuring unusual ingredients, …
Welcome, one and all, to the dark lair of Dr. Frankenstein, and please say hello to Aubrey – the unfortunate brainchild of our indefatigable host for this H dinner, Bernhard. Muahahaha…. As you can see, Aubrey is made of veg and kebabs, sewn together with string to create a truly abominable piece de resistance for …
Dorottya doesn’t do things in half measures. Dorottya is rather an all-or-nothing sort of person. This whole Dinners-by-the-Alphabet started because she proposed the idea to Bernhard back when they were dating – and now, 6 years down the line, the 5 of us are all at it, and won’t stop. It used to be all …
So, confession time: this isn’t the menu I’d originally planned. After scouring the web for 80′ characteristic dishes, I’d settled on making ’80 party foods: Devilled eggs, cheese & veg toothpick hedgehog, vol-au-vents, Viennetta ice-cream cake. But then came Lianne’s Disco dinner – an all-in 70′ party food bonanza – and guess what she served?? …
Lianne is back! Thanks to her dedication to the annual Big Fun Walk, raising funds for the North London Hospice (you can donate here), we got to enjoy her company and cooking again 🙂 And her chosen theme for D dinner was… Disco! What the hell is Disco food, you ask? Well, It’s all those …
Sometimes you gotta go with the first thing that springs into your mind, and this was definitely the case with Bernhard and his C dinner. What do you cook for a C-themed dinner? Well, C foods, obviously. Not Seafood, but Cee Foods. Turns out there are quite a lot of those. In fact, once you …
Idit held her cards close to her chest. As the night of her B dinner approached, she subtly let on that between being very busy with work, and as only Bernhard and I joining herself and Oliver dear for dinner, she probably won’t go very thematic on it. This one will be low-key. So with …
Remember my declaration last time that this reboot of our Alphabetic dinners will be all about themes? Well, erm, not yet, as it turned out. We’re having Angolan food today! Dorottya is hosting, with her friend Val; Lianne is still up in Scotland, and Idit is too ill to attend 🙁 Bernhard and I promised …
And how fitting and serendipitous it is that we can complete our culinary world tour of the alphabet as the calendar year is drawing to a close. This one’s mine, and I chose New Zealand as our foodie destination (sadly without Lianne, who moved north to Scotland last month). I hope you will excuse the …