This is a bit of a sad one. Our cozy little Dinner Club family is shrinking… Lianne is moving to Scotland, and this is her farewell dinner. It almost didn’t happen – with the mammoth task of moving her entire life from east-London to an Edinburgh suburb, there was not much time or head-space left …
Recipes
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.
Yucatan. Coz Y not Mexico
Or: How to get away with doing Mexican again, without incurring the wrath of Dorottya. 23 June 2022 Yes, yes, we should be on X. But X is Lianne’s, and she is currently couch-surfing between homes, so Bernhard is doing Y first. And his mother is coming. And it’s her birthday. We’re gonna to have …
Who Framed the Welsh Rarebit?
Idit, March 21st 2022 Or: WE ATE WALES Because Idit found a list of traditional Welsh dishes on BBC Good Food – and cooked it. The whole bloomin’ lot. Here it is: Welsh Rarebit Glamorgan Sausage Bara Brith Lamb Cawl Conwy Mussels Leeks Tart Laverbread Crempogs Sewin and Samphire Salt Marsh Lamb No, I tell …
V for Vend… Oh, Vanuatu!
Dorottya, Feb 7th 2022 Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch along 1,300 kilometres, with a population of a little over 307,000 people.It gained its independence in 1980 from France and Britain, who called it The New Hebrides, because they didn’t have enough imagination to come up …
U – Yoqimli Ishtaha!
Uzbekistan, Arianna, 10.1.22 It didn’t take much research to see that if I wanted to go for a cuisine which would be different than most of the ones we’ve done so far, and which would take me outside my cooking-comfort zone, it would have to be Uzbek. This near-eastern Muslim country sits on the crossroads …
Texan Mac n’ Cheese recipe
By Bernhard Pucher This, like the ribs, was an amalgamation of two different recipes and a bit of inspiration and luck by both Arianna and me. Here’s what happened: Ingredients: – macaroni pasta 500g– Grated Medium cheddar 300g (buy a block and grate yourself, don’t buy pre-grated. Doesn’t melt as well!)– Grated Gruyère 200g (ditto!)– …
Texas Pork Ribs Recipe
By Bernhard Pucher Ingredients: 5 racks of Spare pork ribs (6kg) – WAY TOO MUCH for 7 people (3-4 racks would do) 1/4 cup salt 1/4 cup black pepper 1/4 cup red pepper Stubbs Liquid Smoke Stubbs BBQ Sauce Process: The idea with this is to mimic smoked Texas Ribs as much as I can …
S for Flamenco
Lianne – 18.10.21 As Lianne was pondering which Country Cuisine to choose for her upcoming S dinner, she remembered that the dinners she’d always enjoyed most were those long, slow, informal affairs, with large tables of friends laughing and chatting, passing around plate-loads of Tapas and bottles of Rioja, all wrapped in a cloud of …
Ra Ra Rasputin!
6th of September You’d think nothing would be more disturbing – as dinners go – than being served grasshoppers and squirrels to eat. But you’d be wrong. Having Premier Putin open Idit’s apartment door was much worse, and scared the bejeezus out of me. Well, Idit in a Putin mask. But it was still bloody …
Q – it’s QUARANTINE Time!
This one, my friends, offers quite the detour from our usual theme, and was, all round, a dinner-for-the-books, which tested both our mettles and our pallets. Q, like O, has only one country in it’s list: Qatar, which Bernhard and Dorottya have already had the first time round the alphabet. It’s cuisine is also rather …