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 …
T – All Hat and No Cattle??
Bernhard, 22/11/21 The founding members of this little club of ours are seriously taking liberties, throwing the rule book every which way. First it was Dorottya with her audacious Quarantine dinner for Q, and now it’s Bernhard, electing a US State rather than a sovereign country for his T dinner!! Well, I’ll be darned! Hold …
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 …
P – Pots & Pork from Papua New Guinea
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 …
Tahini Dip and Shata Dip Recipes
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 …
Omani Mishkak Recipe
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 …