Posted in Events on May 31st, 2011
Fresh calamari, king prawns, and John Dory: our food repertoire for a BBQ Sunday. The dull brown grey sky and the soiled rain of a couple of weekends ago did not disrupt our plans for the first fish barbecue of 2011. Chris was not really enthusiastic about waking up early for preparations and I did [...]
Posted in Events on Sep 19th, 2010
… this was our menu of yesterday’s BBQ dinner. More photos later on. Tapas Antipasto Chorizo and tomato salad: Chorzio sausage cooked with garlic and sherry vinegar served with a mixed tomato salad Sticky artichokes: Artichoke hearts and pine nuts tossed with lemon rind, honey and fresh thyme Primo Souvlaki: Greek-style marinated lamb kebabs (chunks of leg [...]
Posted in Recipes on Aug 28th, 2010
It’s Summer time, or rather end of Summer time! However, aubergines are easily available on the market. Many think that to cook aubergines is complicated since you need to put them under salt for a couple of hours before you cook them. I rarely do so and still get finger licking results! I found this [...]
Posted in Fish recipes, Recipes on Aug 25th, 2010
The sauce makes it one of my favourites! Ingredients for 4 persons: 4 calamari cherry tomatoes half glass balsamic vinegar 1 tblsp honey extra virgin olive oil salt Clean the calamari and cut from one side forming rings without slicing all the way down so that the rings are still attached to the body of [...]
Posted in Events on Jun 6th, 2010
Many times hard work yields positive results… here’s a wonderful fish BBQ menu which will tantalize your taste buds… everything prepared with the finest ingredients and with sparkling dedication… To start with: home made sage focaccia served with a sun-dried tomato and basil olive oil Following… king prawns sauteed in white wine, olive oil, garlic, [...]
Posted in Recipes on Apr 25th, 2010
With Summer approaching fast the variety of fish on the market increases and now it’s the perfect time for buying molluscs which are squid, cuttlefish, octopus. Today I tried a very light and quick recipe with cuttlefish which can excellently make part of a BBQ menu. Ingredients: 4 medium sized cuttlefish, cleaned and tentacles put [...]
Thanks to the fine weather of this weekend on Sunday we enjoyed a BBQ at our dear friends in the company of sweet little Carla who is now 1 year old! We had a delicious menu consisting of the following starters: Following we had barbecued Maltese sausages, cotechino and chicken kebabs. As for main course [...]
