Tag: main course

30th May 2013

Chicken with vegetables in a Dutch oven

I have often wondered about the name “Dutch oven”. I first encountered it during my maiden foreign posting in London, where we lived for several years. As a Dutchman, I had never encountered the name in the Netherlands. There we prepared slow-cooking food in either a “stoofpot” casserole or an oven dish. Just as Brussels sprouts are not called that way in Belgium, nobody takes […]

Goat/Mutton

18th December 2012

Roast of kid with garlic and thyme

I do not know exactly how it came about that we started to call children “kids” as if they were young goats, probably because they jump around a lot. This is not a cannibalistic course, but a roast of a young goat raised on milk only. Goat is a regular treat around in the Mediterranean but I was not yet accustomed to it. So when […]

Main dish Pork

10th December 2012

Rack of pork with two apples, lemon grass and ginger

A lovely Sunday lunch or dinner dish, combining hearty pork meat with apples and adding an Asian touch. Because of the apples, I could not resist using some cider. Ingredients 500 grammes of boned rack of pork (or shoulder) tied up as a roast Four Granny Smith apples Four Boskoop apples Two sticks of lemon grass Five cm of fresh ginger A bottle of cider […]

Main dish Poultry

14th November 2012

Pan-roasted quail with garlic and ginger

From time to time, you just have to cook with what you have in the house. I had bought several quail as they were on offer and I did not want to follow a traditional Italian recipe again, as nice as that one is. I had a piece of ginger lying around and some unfinished white wine. Garlic and onion is usually available in the […]