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
Blindevinken (beef olives) braised in Grimbergen beer
Bobotie (South African spiced mince)
Bunny chow (South African lamb curry in a bread bowl)
Butternut and boerewors risotto
Cecil's lamb sosaties (lamb kebabs)
Gammon (smoked pork) steaks on cabbage, apple and onions
Gem squash stuffed with savoury mince
Glazed gammon with a whisky gravy
Mustard glazed pork fillet stuffed with apricots
Pork chops with sherried mushrooms
Pork fillet stuffed with pear and sage on the barbecue
Pork medallions in a creamy chanterelle sauce
Rack of mutton (or lamb) glazed with marmalade and Drambuie
Sausage and bean casserole with herb dumplings
Venison pie with dried peaches (wildsvleispastei)
MAIN COURSE - poultry
Butter and honey-roast chicken
Chicken a la King and again here
Chicken breasts with tomato and chickpeas on couscous
Chicken, broccoli and mustard bake
Fennel, spice and cream chicken
Feta-filled chicken breasts wrapped in bacon
Nasi ayam nanas (Indonesian chicken & pineapple rice)
Roast duck with pancetta and potatoes
Sun-dried tomato, mozzarella and basil chicken breasts
Thai green chicken curry (easy)
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)
Kingklip fillet with a crispy herb crust
Mackerel (whole) with an orange butter stuffing
Mahi-mahi parcels with sweet chilli, ginger and spring onion
Salmon tournedos with spiced lentils, fig jam and foie gras
Salmon (whole) on the barbecue
Seabass (whole) stuffed with fennel and olives
Smoked haddock with flageolet beans in a creamy mustard sauce
Spicy salmon fillets with a fresh herb salsa
Spinach and feta cheese fish fillets
Swordfish steaks with a honey-mustard marinade
Tomato saffron fish stew with anchovy pesto
Tilapia baked whole with flat-leaf parsley and garlic
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
Caprese bread and butter pudding
Mushroom, Mozzarella and chive omelettes
Ratatouille bake with feta cheese
Sage and Parmesan gnocchi in a browned butter and chilli sauce
Scrambled egg, feta and olive pita pockets
Scrambled eggs with sun-dried tomatoes and Parmesan
Slow-roast tomato and zucchini pasta
Three cheese fondue with champagne
BRAAI (BARBECUE) AND SIDE DISHES
Beef fillet stuffed with smoked oysters on the braai
Cecil's lamb sosaties (lamb kebabs)
Chakalaka (Southern African barbecue relish)
Pork fillet stuffed with pear and sage on the barbecue
Roasted butternut stuffed with spinach and feta
Roosterbrood/Roosterkoek (rolls on the barbecue)
Smoked chicken on the BBQ with a curried stuffing
Tomato onion relish ("train smash") and krummelpap
Venison loin wrapped in bacon on the barbecue
PASTA
Bacon, chicken liver and sherry pasta sauce
Broad bean, bacon and mushroom pasta
Chicken, sun-dried tomato and wholegrain mustard cream sauce
Prawn, mange tout and sake pasta sauce
Purple sprouting broccoli, anchovy and Pecorino pasta
Sage and Parmesan gnocchi in a browned butter and chilli sauce
Slow-roast tomato and zucchini pasta
STARTERS AND CANAPES
Boerewors, peppadew & haloumi skewers
Broad bean, green bean & mozzarella salad
Celeriac soup shots with crispy bacon
Cheese bites with chile or caraway
Feta and chive stuffed peppadews
Griddled halloumi cheese with caramelised fennel, shallots and flat-leaf parsley
Nectarines, roasted and wrapped in Prosciutto
Scrambled egg and caviar toast rounds
Smoked salmon-wrapped mackerel pate parcels
Smoked scallop and sea-trout pate
Sun-dried tomato pesto puff pastry twirls
Tomato, basil and marinated feta skewers
VEGETABLES
Boereboontjies (peppery green beans with potato)
Broad beans with Spanish ham (habas con jamon)
Brussels sprouts sauteed with shallots & garlic
Butternut and beetroot roasted with rosemary
Cheese and Mediterranean vegetable terrine
Clapshot (traditional Scottish potato and yellow turnip mash)
Corn, roasted with lime and chilli butter
Cumin and caraway roast carrots
Curly kale with wholegrain mustard
Curly kale sauteed with garlic and Parmesan
Gestoofde soetpatats (stewed sweet potatoes)
Jerusalem artichoke & potato gratin
Ratatouille bake with feta cheese
Roasted butternut squash stuffed with spinach and feta
Roasted corn with lime & chilli butter
Roasted green beans with red onion and almonds
Rumbledthumps (traditional Scottish mashed potato and cabbage)
Sauteed Brussels sprouts with shallots & garlic
Savoy cabbage, courgette and runner bean stir-fry
Slow-roasted tomatoes in olive oil
Spaghetti squash roasted with thyme and sage
SALADS
Brocolli and toasted seed salad
Broad bean, green bean & mozzarella salad
Butternut, feta and pinenut salad
Char-grilled asparagus, zucchini, tomato and halloumi salad
Cilantro, cucumber and tomato salad
Lentil, radish and flat-leaf parsley salad
Nectarine and coriander leaf salsa
Pomegranate, fennel, pear and rocket salad
Potato salad with apple and thyme
Salade folle (salad with foie gras)
Salade Nicoise a la Cooksister
SOUPS
Celeriac soup shots with crispy bacon
Cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup
Cullen skink (Scottish smoked haddock and potato soup)
Red lentil & roasted red pepper soup
Smoked haddock and leek chowder
Smoked salmon and dill chowder
Warm avocado soup with biltong
BREAKFAST AND BRUNCH
Bacon, mushroom, zucchini and peppadew frittata
Biltong, blue cheese and peppadew quiche
Broad bean, cheese and ham tart
Butternut squash, feta cheese and rosemary quiche
Roast gammon and caramelised shallot quiche
Scrambled egg, feta and olive pita pockets
Scrambled eggs with sun-dried tomato and Parmesan
Smoked salmon-wrapped mackerel pate parcels
Apple caramel self-saucing pudding
Baked Alaska with Cointreau and marmalade
Best hot chocolate sauce in the world
Caramelised nectarines and cherries
Cherry dumplings (knedle wisniowe)
Chocolate, blackberry and almond torte
Cranberry and pear upside down cake
Cranberry ginger caramel pudding (self-saucing)
Dadelpoeding (Cape brandy pudding with dates)
Dark chocolate and orange pots
Figs (roasted with balsamic vinegar) with pine nuts
Ginger pannacotta with a lime syrup
Individual dried apricot upside-down cakes
Individual chocolate fondant puddings
Marmalade bread & butter pudding
Nectarine & ginger tarte tatin
Rhubarb, cranberry and ginger fool
Rooibos tea, dried fruit and muesli "pie"
Souskluitjies (sweet cinnamon dumplings)
Spiced pear, apple & pistachio crisp
White chocolate and raspberry cheesecake
Chocolate oat and sesame cookies
Chocolate, prune and Armagnac cake
Cranberry, apple and bran muffins
Cranberry and pear upside down cake
Cranberry & pistachio choc chip cookies
Cranberry, orange and pecan nut muffins
Dark chocolate & fresh raspberry cupcakes
Ham, cheese and paprika muffins
Lemon meringue "baked Alaska" petit fours
Nigella's cherry Bakewell slices
South African soetkoekies (spiced wine cookies)
Spiced pumpkin (or butternut squash) muffins
Zucchini, peppadew and feta cheese bread
SWEETS
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.
Posted by: Helene | January 26, 2007 at 02:11 PM
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!
Posted by: Ash | January 26, 2007 at 07:17 PM
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.
Posted by: Ros | January 26, 2007 at 09:00 PM
What a wonderful list of recipes. I plan on trying at least six of them. Super to have a list in one place.
Posted by: Elle | January 27, 2007 at 01:51 AM
That's quite a list...and how did I miss the deep-fried Mars bars?
Posted by: David | January 28, 2007 at 12:41 PM
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!
Posted by: Jeanne | January 29, 2007 at 01:02 PM
holy crap, bored much? seriously, that's a great amount of work, thank you for doing it. how did i miss the souskluitjies?
Posted by: santos. | January 29, 2007 at 03:06 PM
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 ;-)
Posted by: Jeanne | January 29, 2007 at 03:17 PM
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!
Posted by: Ash | January 29, 2007 at 04:45 PM
This is extremely useful...thank you!
Posted by: Stephanie | January 31, 2007 at 11:43 PM
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!
Posted by: Jeanne | February 05, 2007 at 11:35 AM
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!
Posted by: Liz Allwright | February 26, 2007 at 12:10 PM
Baie oulike bladsy! Ek soek droewors resep.
Groete
Danie
Posted by: Danie van der Merwe | March 26, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Lyk na lekker resepte. Het jy dalk 'n lekker droewors resep wat jy kan aanpaas, asb?
Thanks!
Posted by: Nella | May 23, 2007 at 01:57 AM
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!!
Posted by: kerry tanner | January 23, 2008 at 02:55 PM
HI. Glad i found your site going to do some cooking this weekend
Posted by: PHIL VERNON | May 08, 2008 at 02:28 PM
is this it?
the one?
THE site.
is this it?
Posted by: sid larkin | May 13, 2008 at 04:43 PM
Wow quite the collection here! Really glad to have found your site.
Posted by: M Vroom | May 19, 2008 at 09:55 AM
I absolutely adore this blog. Living in Norway, and not exactly being a great cook myself, i find it very helpful knowing that I can just go onto the net and find a good south african recipe to impress my friends with. SOOO HELPFUL AND LEKKER!!! keep inspiring us...
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Posted by: Michael | November 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I have never been able to cook and constantly check recipes online. Ur blog is the best I have come across. Ps I tried the peppermint crisp tart and it was perfect. Thanx
Posted by: Still_in_SA | January 19, 2009 at 03:51 PM