Archive for the 'Barbecue' Category
Sweden
We’re back from our trip to Sweden where Stephen’s team won both their cricket matches. For the first part of the trip we stayed in a small town with only two restaurants, both of which served pizza and kebabs. We therefore ate pizza: One of the opposition ate kebab pizza (perhaps that’s why they lost): […]
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At last, the weather has become sunny again and we were able to barbecue. We were planning to start with prawn skewers, but we’d eaten them last night in a Thai curry instead. So we made some garlic bread as a starter. Then we had boerewors that I’d bought from the “farmers’ market” in Hammersmith […]
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Smoked Salmon
Yesterday we bought a really nice piece of salmon from our fishmonger and today we smoked it on the barbecue. Accompanied by smoked corn and crushed new potatoes. The salmon was really good, but not hugely smoky. Next time we’ll try a thinner piece and remove the skin from the bottom to get more smoke […]
Read More..>>Barbecue – Lamb Kofta and Chicken Kebabs
Another sunny Saturday; another barbecue. I’m starting to worry that we’re running out of luck and that next weekend it is going to be snowing. But hopefully that is just paranoia. We made some lamb kofta on skewers, similar to our previous recipe (but with a heavier hand on the seasoning which worked out well) […]
Read More..>>Smoked Chicken
Today, we attempted to smoke a chicken on the barbeque. We used woodchips to create a smoky flavour and cooked the whole thing with the lid on. It took much longer to cook than we expected but the flavour was very smoky. So smoky that it reminded me of bacon. We also had boerewors and […]
Read More..>>Fish Braai
Another sunny and warm weekend so another barbeque. Two actually. On Saturday, we picked up some prawns, a rainbow trout, a red mullet and a sea bream to barbeque. The prawns were marinated in olive oil, lime, chilli and garlic. The other fishes were brushed with oil and stuffed with rosemary, lemon and bay. It […]
Read More..>>Pimms
Another warm day, another barbeque. This time with steaks. And Pimms.
Read More..>>First Barbecue Of The Year
This Easter weekend saw the temperature in London reach 20 degrees. To celebrate, Stephen and I barbecued. To start with, we had prawns marinated in garlic, chilli, oil and lime juice: We followed this with garlic and rosemary lamb chops, corn on the cob, roasted butternut with spinach and feta and salad: It was all […]
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