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January 26, 2007

Cooksister: The Recipes

Every now and again I take a trawl through my archives and I'm amazed at some of the recipes I find - I actually made that??  I figure that if I have forgotten about them, then you probably have too.  So here's a new feature for 2007:  an index of all the recipes on this site, for your viewing pleasure!  I have arranged them according to course (starter, main, etc.) and broadly into fish, meat or vegetables, as well as separate categories for breakfasts, soups and baked goods.  If I'm feeling very energetic I may later also classify them according to main ingredient (when I have spare time, LOL!). I have also put a permanent link to this index in my left-hand column to make browsing and finding recipes on Cooksister even easy-peasier.  Enjoy!

MAIN COURSE - meat

Beef in Guinness stew

Blindevinken (beef olives) braised in Grimbergen beer

Bobotie (South African spiced mince)

Butternut and boerewors risotto

Cecil's lamb sosaties (lamb kebabs)

Bacon, chicken liver and sherry pasta sauce

Gem squash stuffed with mince

Glazed gammon with a whisky gravy

Lamb Stroganoff

Lancashire hotpot

Mustard glazed pork fillet stuffed with apricots

Pork chops with sherried mushrooms

Pork fillet stuffed with pear and sage on the barbecue

Sausage and bean casserole with herb dumplings

Sausage and fennel risotto

Slow-roast spicy leg of lamb

Twice-cooked oxtail stew

Venison pie with dried peaches (wildsvleispastei)

MAIN COURSE - poultry

Butter and honey-roast chicken

Chicken a la King

Chicken Biryani

Chicken breasts with tomato and chickpeas on couscous

Chicken, broccoli and mustard bake

Curried chicken salad

Duck l'orange

Fennel, spice and cream chicken

Feta-filled chicken breasts wrapped in bacon

Roast duck with pancetta and potatoes

Sun-dried tomato, mozzarella and basil chicken breasts

MAIN COURSE - fish

Cod fillets with a pesto and almond crust

Gurnard, rolled and baked with a mustard cream sauce

Gesmoorde snoek (snoek in a tomato onion sauce)

Haddock and Parma ham parcels

Kingklip fillet with a crispy herb crust

Mackerel (whole) with an orange butter stuffing

Moules mariniere

Prawn, mange tout and sake pasta sauce

Salmon Caesar salad

Salmon en croute

Salmon tournedos with spiced lentils, fig jam and foie gras

Salmon (whole) on the barbecue

Seabass (whole) stuffed with fennel and olives

Seafood paella

Smoked haddock with flageolet beans in a creamy mustard sauce

Snoek (whole) on the braai

Swordfish steaks with a honey-mustard marinade

Tuna steaks with a red pepper and satsuma salsa

Trout with almonds and samphire

Yellowtail and aubergine "sandwiches"

MAIN COURSE - vegetarian

Butternut squash, feta cheese and rosemary quiche

Cheesy vegetable quesadillas

Eggplant parmesan

Mushroom, Mozzarella and chive omelettes

Paola's pasta primavera

Sage and Parmesan gnocchi in a browned butter and chilli sauce

Scrambled egg, feta and olive pita pockets

Slow-roast tomato and zucchini pasta

Tabbouleh a la Cooksister

Three cheese fondue with champagne

Wild garlic risotto

BRAAI (BARBECUE) AND SIDE DISHES

Beef fillet stuffed with smoked oysters on the braai

Braai sarmies

Cecil's lamb sosaties (lamb kebabs)

Chakalaka (Southern African barbecue relish)

Hasselback potatoes

Pork fillet stuffed with pear and sage on the barbecue

Roasted butternut stuffed with spinach and feta

Roosterbrood/Roosterkoek (rolls on the barbecue)

Sticky BBQ chicken sundowners

Tomato onion relish ("train smash") and krummelpap

Venison loin wrapped in bacon on the barbecue

Whole salmon on the barbecue

Whole snoek on the braai

STARTERS AND CANAPES

Boerewors, peppadew & haloumi skewers

Broad bean, green bean & mozzarella salad

Broad bean and feta crostini

Cheese olives

Cheese bites with chile or caraway

Chicken liver and cognac pate

Feta and chive stuffed peppadews

Nectarines, roasted and wrapped in Prosciutto

Pissaladiere

Red pepper roly-poly skewers

Scrambled egg and caviar toast rounds

Smoked salmon-wrapped mackerel pate parcels

Smoked snoek pate

Three cheese terrine

VEGETABLES

Boereboontjies (peppery green beans with potato)

Broad beans with Spanish ham (habas con jamon)

Butternut squash bake

Cheese and Mediterranean vegetable terrine

Curly kale with wholegrain mustard

Gestoofde soetpatats (stewed sweet potatoes)

Hasselback potatoes

Jerusalem artichoke & potato gratin

Pak choi with peppadews

Roasted butternut squash stuffed with spinach and feta

Roasted green beans with red onion and almonds

Rozenhof creamy gem squash

Samphire

Sherried mushrooms

Slow-roasted tomatoes in olive oil

Stuffed black mushrooms

SALADS

Brocolli and toasted seed salad

Broad bean, green bean & mozzarella salad

Butternut, feta and pinenut salad

Carpaccio of zucchini

Cilantro, cucumber and tomato salad

Cured ham and roast fig salad

Grilled salmon Caesar salad

Marinated mushrooms

Nasturtium leaf salad

Pomegranate, fennel, pear and rocket salad

Roasted potato salad

Salade Nicoise a la Cooksister

SOUPS

Butternut soup

Chicken noodle soup

Cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup

Cream of mushroom soup

Moroccan Harira

New England clam chowder

Roasted root vegetable soup

Smoked haddock and leek chowder

Tomato & marmalade soup

Warm avocado soup with biltong

BREAKFAST AND BRUNCH

Bacon, mushroom, zucchini and peppadew frittata

Bacon, spinach & feta quiche

Biltong, blue cheese and peppadew quiche

Broad bean, cheese and ham tart

Butternut squash, feta cheese and rosemary quiche

Featherbed eggs

Pepper and mushroom fritata

Scrambled egg, feta and olive pita pockets

Smoked salmon eggs Benedict

Smoked salmon-wrapped mackerel pate parcels

DESSERTS

Apple caramel self-saucing pudding

Asynpoeding (vinegar pudding)

Best hot chocolate sauce in the world

Cherry clafoutis

Cherry dumplings (knedle wisniowe)

Cherry millefeuille

Cranberry ginger caramel pudding (self-saucing)

Dadelpoeding (Cape brandy pudding with dates)

Dark chocolate mousse

Deep-fried Mars Bar

Don Pedro

Eton mess

Figs (roasted with balsamic vinegar) with pine nuts

Individual chocolate fondant puddings

Gingery baked nectarines

Marmalade bread & butter pudding

Peach and cardamom clafoutis

Peppermint Crisp fridge tart

Rhubarb crumble

Rooibos tea, dried fruit and muesli "pie"

Souskluitjies (sweet cinnamon dumplings)

Spiced poached pears

Spicy plum crumble

Summer fruit terrine

White chocolate and raspberry cheesecake

BAKED GOODS

Black treacle scones

Brown bread - quick and easy

Chocolate crunchies

Chocolate oat and sesame cookies

Chocolate, prune and Armagnac cake

Cranberry, apple and bran muffins

Double peanut butter cookies

Ham, cheese and paprika muffins

Lemon meringue "baked Alaska" petit fours

Lemon shortbread fingers

Mamma's scones

Melktert (milk tart)

Nigella's cherry Bakewell slices

Oat and cherry muffins

Pansyshell cookies

Peppadew and parmesan muffins

South African soetkoekies (spiced wine cookies)

Sweet potato muffins

Triple ginger cake

SWEETS

Amarula cream truffles

Chocolate-caramel fudge truffles with fleur de sel

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Dear Cooksister,
today I came across your blog and started reading and scrolling and didn´t stop and couldn´t stop. Congratulations!
I couldn´t help but to hand the address over to friends who love South Africa.

I love your list of recipes! I'm going to try and get my mom's recipe for sousboontjes out of her. Did you ever have them in SA? I am also so pleased to see the recipe for boerenboontjies - we used to have them a lot but I never actually saw them being made so wasn't sure how to reproduce them! Another recipe I want from my mom is her vinegar pudding. I thought a malva pudding might be similar but it wasn't quite the same. Watch my blog - I'm going to try making your namesake - koeksusters!

When I started my blog, I began indexing all my recipes but in the last month its just been too time consuming to update, so I've resorted to doing what everyine else does - putting them in with the posts.

It's a very good idea to pop all the recipe posts on one page like you have with links. I think I might do the same with my recent recipes.

What a wonderful list of recipes. I plan on trying at least six of them. Super to have a list in one place.

That's quite a list...and how did I miss the deep-fried Mars bars?

Hi Helene
Glad you stumbled across my blog - and even happier to hear how much you enjoyed it! I hope your South African friends share your opinion :)

Hi Ash
I do remember having sousboontjies but never being that keen on them (an early legume dislike!) - I really should try them again now that I'm in love with legumes. It's the same with slaphakskeentjies - I never used to see the point but now I love them - go figure! I have some antique South African recipe books and I'm sure I can dig out an asynpoeding recipe for you if you like - let me know.

Hi Ros
I just realised that my recipes were getting lost in amongst all the other stuff and I though it would be nice to have them all in one place, to remind myself that I don't eat out every night (although some weeks it seems like it!!). I'd love to have a one-stop repostitory of all your lovely recipies, so can't wait for your index :)

Hi Elle
Glad you like the "upgrade"! And I'm dying to know which six you will be making...

Hi David
I know - I even surprised myself!! And no, I don't know either how you missed the Mars Bar epic... It's one of those things like bungee jumping, that you have to do once so that you never have to do it again!

holy crap, bored much? seriously, that's a great amount of work, thank you for doing it. how did i miss the souskluitjies?

Hi Santos
"...that's a great amount of work...". And this from the woman who colour-codes her books?!? :o) (which *rocks*, btw!)

Glad you like the list - and the fact that you can now unearth little gems like the souskluitjies is precisely why I did it. We aim to serve ;-)

Hi Jeanne, I'd love it if you could find an asynpoeding recipe for me. Not that I need to eat one right now (diet) but I'd love to have one!

This is extremely useful...thank you!

Hi Ash
I actually went one better - I test-drove one for you over the weekend! Will e-mail you about it shortly.

Hi Stephanie
It's a pleasure - and at least it means I can now find MY OWN recipes!

Hi - I recently did a google search for butternut soup and your site appeared about third on the list. The recipe looked so simple in comparison to others I looked at and considering this was our first attempt (and so not wanting to buy ingredients that may never see the light of day again!) yours got the winning vote! And do you know what? It genuinely was as amazing as you claim!! The first time we made it it was one of those January days that England is so good at - scarf-worthy but gloriously sunny - and accompanied by my husbands homemade olive bread it made the perfet winter warmer. Absolutely delicious and so simple too - I can see this recipe being passed on through our family! Thanks for sharing it!

Baie oulike bladsy! Ek soek droewors resep.

Groete

Danie

Lyk na lekker resepte. Het jy dalk 'n lekker droewors resep wat jy kan aanpaas, asb?
Thanks!

I was so happy when i came across your site - the measurements are what i can understand,not a pound of this and a pound of that and 350f, then you spend half the time trying to convert them or find someone who may be able to help you convert them and that is so time consuming that you then don't even bother trying to make the recipe!! What a pleasure to see home grown recipes on the net!! Yippee!!

HI. Glad i found your site going to do some cooking this weekend

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