Monday, January 17, 2011

Fill it with pork

Tender pork fillet rolled in 12 spices served with 2 salads first a carrot & orange juice salad to counter act the sharpness of the 12 spices. secondly a basic green salad with cucumber, feta & mint drizzled with lemon, olive oil & balsamic vinegar.
The 12 spices were salt, paprika, yellow mustard seeds, coriander, rosemary, dried basil, dried garlic, crushed chillies, cumin, pink, black & white pepper all crushed together in a mortal & pestle. The pork i cooked slowly in the oven, the base of the fillet i poured a little apple juice to bring out the flavour of the pork. Words can not describe the taste of this dish. the flavours consumed me & the meal lasted mere minutes.

To Tart or not to Tart

Everyone enjoys a tart.. but today we are talking milktart a favoured tea time partner down here in South Africa. However you can see i threw in a little touch of madness.
Which was simple enough i cut out a vector image of a sexy lady, placed it on said tart and sprinkled with cinnamon. le voila sexy tart.
This is my first tart... well first homemade edible tart:) It was nice sadly it had a lingering taste of egg as my friends know i am not a fan of the taste of egg but the texture and all round tartness was lovely.

But like with any tart there is always room for improvement :) i have since improved the recipe more milk less egg.
Let them eat tart.

The dance of the Salmon


Lemon & rosemary fused Salmon with garlic buttered & chilly mushrooms.
Hard to believe but this dish tasted even better than it sounds, my mouth waters at the shear memory of it. the meal it's self was easy enough to create.
Fresh Salmon hugged by rosemary and lemon. mushrooms topped with garlic butter and fresh green chillies oven baked until the mushrooms were swelled with juice.

This is a easy and impressive dish if i am correct in my memory this meal probably took half an hour with cooking time. mmmmmmm Salmon truly the best fish in the world i am so with the bears.