Any dishes you can do on the BBQ and serve with a cold salad is perfect for these long hot summer days.  I got Chelsea Winter‘s Everyday Delicious recipe book for Christmas, and she has a great recipe for Lamb Koftas, these are really good served with my Forbidden Rice Salad. Forbidden Rice is also
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One meal I love making, because it is so easy and there is always plenty left for sandwiches, is Beer Can Chicken.  It can be done on the BBQ (one with a hood) or in the oven; with roasted veges or with salad and bread. The basic concept is to steam the chicken from the
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One of the advantages of living in Marlborough is the beautiful fresh salmon that is so easily accessible.  Our local butcher had fresh salmon in last week so I picked up a beautiful piece for dinner. First I marinated it in: 50ml local olive oil 50ml verjuice 2 cloves local garlic, crushed 1 tsp dried basil
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A typical sunny Marlborough day, perfect for a BBQ. Local supplier Premium Game do wonderful wild vennison patties, just needing some equally good ingredients to do them justice. On to a pre-heated BBQ plate go the patties, with chopped shallots and mushrooms (unfortunately we don’t have anyof our own mushrooms at the moment), local free range eggs, and halved capsicums on
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I was given some smoking boards as a gift, to be used on the BBQ – soak them and then put under the lid of the BBQ with your food to create a delicate smoked flavour.  Our favourite way to do this is with free-range chicken legs. First soak the board – I usually used
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