Recipes

This is a list of all the recipes I have posted in this blog (or I have got elsewhere). They are gathered here for quick and easy reference mostly for me but you’ll benefit too! I have personally tried all these recipies, and where I have remembered, I’ve put in my own notes.

Some are from magazines, some are from websites, some are from other blogs I read and others are family hand-me-downs. I have tried to add links to the originals, and to give credit where credit is due.

I use metric measures, but so long as you use the right proportions, you should be fine. All baking was done at 400m ASL so bear that in mind if you are higher in elevation or lower.

Click here to see me dancing in my kitchen in my YuppieChef’s Cook-a-thon video!

Recipes marked with a * are ones I’ve made for my 2011 Resolution.

Breakfasts

• Bacon & Cheese Breakfast Muffins (Epicurious.com)
• Breakfast Crepes (Epicurious.com)
• Breakfast wraps (My own recipe/method)
• Lemon Ricotta Pancakes (Phoo-D)

Dinners & Lunches

• Apple stuffed chicken breasts (Allrecipies.com)
• Butternut Soup (Mom’s recipe)
• Broccoli sauce for Pasta (Quick & Easy recipes)
• Cabbage & Chicken
• Chicken Curry (Epicurious.com)
• Chicken Kiev (All my own! Scroll to the bottom)
• Fried Rice (My own recipe/method)
• J’s Marvelous Mince (J’s recipe…duh)
• Lasagne (J’s recipe)
• Moroccan Carrot Soup (Epicurious.com)
• *Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken)
• Onion Rings (The Sophisticated Gormet)
• Oxtail (Mom’s recipe)
• Peanut Butter Noodles (AllRecipes.com)
• Pork Loin with Plum and Onion Salsa Phylo Parcels, in a Red Wine Reduction – (My own combinaton-scroll down)
• *Prawn & Lemon Pepper Risotto Done! See my version here
• Plum & Onion Salsa (Scroll down)
• Rice wedges with steamed greens (Quick & Easy recipes)
• Roast Chicken with Bacon, Orange & Cardamom (Something I threw together)
• Rosemary Roasted Chicken (USA Cookbook)
• Sophie’s Chicken with Coconut and Apple (A friend’s recipe)
• Stuffed Potatoes aka Twice-Baked Potatoes (My own recipe)
• Vietnamese Chicken Salad

Snacks

• Healthy Snack Bars (Epicurious.com)
• Phoo-D’s Granola Bars (link to the original recipe on Phoo-D’s site)
• Peanut Butter & Mushroom Skewers (From an ex-boyfriend)

Baking & Desserts

• Ann’s Biscuits (My Aunt’s recipe)
• Apple bake (For the campfire – adapted from the Pear bake in “This is Potjiekos by Matie Brink)
• Banana bread (Joy’s recipe)
• Basic Pizza Dough (Our own recipe)
• Beyond Easy Beer Bread (Link to Farmgirl Fare’s original recipe, and to my version)
• Chocolate Cobbler (Tasty Kitchen)
• Chocolate (Cup)-cakes (Can’t remember where I got this recipe!)
• Chocolate Mousse (Mayberry Magpie)
• Ginger Biscuits (Mom’s recipe)
• Iced biscuits (Biscuits and Icing) inspired by I am Baker. Done! See here…
• Melva Pudding (Mom’s recipe)
• Milo Ice-Cream (My recipe)
• *Naan
• Oatmeal Crispies (Cookies – The Pioneer Woman)
• Peanut Butter Pretzels Bites Done! See here…
• *Pumpkin & Rosemary Bread (from Sass & Veracity)
• *Salted caramel - Done! See here…
• Wholewheat Rusks (Trish’s recipe)

Jams, Preserves & Sauces

• Lemon Curd (Ouma’s Recipe)
• Moroccan Preserved Lemons (Epicurious.com)
• Mushroom Sauce (My ‘recipe’)
• Raspberry-Lemon Curd (My own concoction)
• Salted caramel - Done! See here…
• *Tomato-Chilli Jam (Epicurious with additions)

Drinks

• Limoncello (Epicurious.com)
• Frozen Mojitos (My own concoction)

Wines - Nowhere near complete…

• Boland Cellar Shiraz ‘Five Climates’ 2008
• Fish Hoek Pinotage Rose (2008)
• Flagstone Longitude Dry Red 2007
• Jacobdal Pinotage 2000
• Kleine Zalze Pinotage 2008
• Porcupine Ridge Syrah (2008)
• Stormhoek Pinotage Dido 2008