Category Dinner
gado gado – indonesian satay salad
Please visit my new food blog on http://www.treatabel.com 🙂 My Opa (Dutch) grew up in Indonesia, and as a result, some of my fondest food memories featuring cuisine hailing from there. Peanut satay sauce has forever been on regular rotation in my family home. We usually serve it alongside a barbecued, marinated butterflied leg of […]
haloumi burgers on roasted portobello ~buns~
I am not good at putting together meals that require more than one cooking vessel. However, given that I had bought portobello mushrooms from the market on Sunday for the express purpose of making this dish, I could hardly use laziness as a valid excuse on a Friday night (especially when I managed to finish […]
roast pork belly with asian greens
It’s ridiculously hot here in the Hawkes Bay, so perhaps it’s not exactly roasting weather given the fact we humans are roasting ourselves. I personally feel as though I am constantly marinating in my own sweat and am actually contemplating washing my hair this week. Pork belly, however, is delicious enough to be considered edible […]
spiced lamb mince with aubergine and pine-nuts
This is a deconstructed, time-saving version of one of my favourite dinners: stuffed aubergine with lamb and pine-nuts. I vastly prefer it to moussaka, a Greek dish also involving mince and aubergine, albeit baked in layers. I’m working this weekend, and to make it through spending 38 out of a 62 hour period at the […]
keto “paella”
I apologise for my unintended hiatus: starting work as a doctor and summer have gotten in the way of taking the time to cook things more complex than simply frying meat alongside some vegetables. It’s a bit like getting fit and engaging in an exercise routine – it feels great while you do it, but […]
salmon and cream cheese keto sushi
This tastes better than normal sushi. That’s all I really have to say on the subject. Oh, and: the addition of pickled ginger is non–neogotiable. Adapted from lowcarbshighfat.com. Ingredients: 200g cold smoked salmon slices 100g spreadable cream cheese 150g cauliflower, grated into rice Furikake seasoning/sesame seeds Raw zucchini/telegraph cucumber, cut into strips 1 avocado, cut […]
braised 5-spice oxtail stew with creamy coconut mash
Keto has made me seriously experimental with meat, to the point where I’m now more interested in exploring a butchery section of a supermarket than I am to shop for clothes. I’ve never cooked oxtail before, and have only ever tried leftovers from when my mother served it at dinner parties. The slow cooked nature […]
slow-roasted dukkah-spiced lamb shank with eggplant and mint-coriander yoghurt dressing
I went through a phase when I was fourteen of being vegetarian, mainly to annoy my mother by forcing dietary requirements on her. What I didn’t realise at the time was that I was shooting myself in the foot. Unfortunately, as a consequence of my “beliefs” at the time, my appreciation for steak and […]
twice-cooked pork belly with sesame garlic bok choy
While I’ve never cooked with pork belly before, I have practised suturing on it (pig skin = like human skin to work with. Killed your appetite?). My mum makes a fantastic slow-roasted pork belly that is frequently served at Sunday family dinners. Unfortunately, given that my parents have jetted off to New Caledonia for the […]
chicken, spinach, feta and mint casserole with toasted pine nut crust
I’ve never been one for meal prepping, but to save me from eating chocolate mousse at every meal on the ketogenic diet, it’s practically imperative. The beauty of making multiple portions of meals is something I have always respected but never dabbled in myself. Much like my decision to go strictly low carbohydrate, I have […]
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