Serves 6-8 people, with fresh Cholla to scoop up the sauce Ingredients for the cutlets: 800g white fish fillets, diced to 1/2cm cubes The flesh (no skin) of 2 large burnt aubergines* 1 finely chopped purple onion A bunch of fresh coriander, chopped ½ green chilli, finely chopped 3 Tbs of olive oil ½ loaf …
Libya: Do NOT touch your eyes while preparing this meal.
L: Libya: 27.7.20 – Me again! For my L Dinner I decided to stay in Africa, but move north into the Magreb, to Libya. I’d remembered having an amazing fish cutlet dish in a spicy sauce at Ruthie’s home – a recipe I believe she got from her Tripolitean mother-in-law . Tripoli used to have …
Kenya, or How to divide 14 beer-bottles among 5 diners?
5 July 2020: It’s Dorottya’s turn, and we’re back in Africa! Britain is still in this wierd Corona-virus limbo, but we are pushing on. Dorottya, her boyfriend Andreas, Lianne, Bernhard, and yours truly (two more friends of Dorottya’s were supposed to come, but bailed). We had lots of beer, but were short on icing-sugar (no, …
Hungarian Poppyseed Cake
This is by Dorottya: This is my mum’s recipe, one she got from a women’s magazine in 80s Hungary and been making it for every Xmas and Easter as well as random birthdays. Story has it that it was touted to be healthy for our waist lines; seemingly the low carb fallacy has been doing …
Hungarian: Goulash – you will NEED a cauldron
It’s now 6.6.20, almost 3 months since our last International Dinner. During April & May we, and the rest of the UK, were under Lockdown, hunkering down in our respective homes with our families. It was… interesting. Lonely, for sure, but it also gave us time & headspace to explore other pursuits. Dorottya & Lianne, …
Jamaica: Flavours from The Windrush
16.3.20 – We’re now dangerously close to LOCKDOWN. Bernhard & I had just returned from a week’s holiday in Israel, to celebrate our 40th birthdays (we very nearly share the birth date; Oh, the cheese!). All over Europe borders were shutting down and flights cancelled – we were incredibly lucky to have had our (really …
Shoshanna’s Kurdistani Chamin
Slow-cooked traditional Jewish Stew I apologise that some of the quantities here are vague – that’s how this recipe was handed down to me by Shoshanna, my nanny. When I pressed for specifics she always said- I don’t know… I’ve always eye-balled it. So I did too, and so must you. You don’t mess around …
Israel: A Dinner of Unbouned Nostalgia
I?? – you ask – What about H? Well, dear reader, we fudged the order a bit with these next few dinners: Dorottya wanted to do a traditional outdoor Goulash cookout for H – Hungarian (her home country) – so in a daring move we decided to push that forward to await warmer weather, and …
Georgia: Walnut Heaven
We’re now on 20.1.2020. Oh, little did we know what this year would bring! When I think of our naive, hopeful selves… but jumping ahead here. back then the Corona Virus was just a mildly-scary thing happening to some unfortunate chines province. Here in London, we were more concerned with which cuisine to celebrate next. …
Fiji: Food from Paradise
4.12.19 – F – Fiji! I loved both cooking and eating this meal, which came out light, vibrant, and full of flavours. It also had the happiest Playlist 😉 Assembled friends: Dorottya with her friend Kati, Idit and Oliver (who bravely came despite having a mild fever), Benrhard & myself. I totally cheated my way …