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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Monday, 19th of July 2021 By now, 16 letters and dinners in, preparing for a A-Z Dinner has assumed its own life cycle: First – when assigned a letter – choosing which cuisine to take on: finding all the countries which start with that letter, then considering which sounds interesting, not too similar to one …
Shatta Dip (not quite Schoog, but an occidental-palet-friendly version…) 10 red chillies (or green) 4 spoons tomato paste 3 cloves of garlic 2 lemons Cut chillies (de-seed if preferred) and add into a blender and blend fine. Add tomato paste and garlic cloves. Blend fine. Put the mixture into a bowl and squeeze in lemon …
Ingredients: 1kg beef steak, cubed 3 tbsp Fresh ginger grated 5 cloves of garlic ½ papaya fruit, chopped 1 ½ tbsp salt 3 de-seeded red chillies or 1 tbsp chilli powder 1 tbsp turmeric 4 tbsp vinegar (any kind is fine) 4 tbsp tamarind paste (this is a must!) 1 tbsp cumin powder 1 tbsp …
Ingredients: 3 cups of basmati rice 5 cups of chicken stock 3 onions 5 garlic cloves 1 tablespoon Baharat spice ½ teaspoon whole cloves 1 teaspoon peppercorns 1 teaspoon coriander 1 teaspoon cumin seeds ½ teaspoon of salt Cinnamon stick Dried limes ½ cup raisins soaked in water ½ cup of dates ½ cup blanched …
Ingredients (serves 6): 1 kg Reindeer meat, cubed 2 Onions – diced 4 Slices of Smoked back bacon, tough ends removed, copped 5 Large carrots, thickly sliced 5 Large mushrooms, sliced 2 Large potatoes, peeled & cut into large cubes 1 tsp of thyme 3 tbsp veg oil 2 cubes beef stock 1.5Lt boiling water …
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve been self-employed for the past 3 and a half years, building a little business and crossing fingers and toes that it grows and pays the bills. Financially it’s been touch-and-go for a long time, and now, with the pandemic and lockdowns, it’s been just Go. So …
28.12.2020 : We’re under Lockdown again. I won’t get into the politics of it, just say that after many big statements and bigger back-tracks, London is now in Tier 4 all through December and the Holidays; so no big family get togethers, and no Norwegian Dinner, for the time being. Which really sucks. ‘They’ can’t, …