Smokey BBQ pork tenderloin

This is an easy and quick dish to make for a tasty midweek dinner.

Smokey BBQ pork tenderloin served with an onion sauce and Nappa cabbage with pancetta

Roasted pork tenderloin

This is a quick and easy way to prepare a delicious pork main. You can mix your own blend of spices.

Roasted pork tenderloin with pickled cabbage and carrots

Baked Mediterranean salmon

Dinner on 15 January 2016 was a darn of baked Mediterranean salmon, half of a spicy roasted whole cauliflower, and peppers stuffed with cheese.

Aubergine lamb rolls with tzatziki

We were on holiday in Abu Dhabi for 10 days in late June. The hotel was lovely and the food wonderful, fresh and very high quality. After returning home, I wasn't in any mood to cook, so we lived on shuǐjiǎo (boiled dumplings) for a few days. Even though they were tasty, the wheat used to make the pastry didn't agree with me (I don't need to say more...).

When I finally put in an order for grocery, I decided to extend the holiday feel a bit and make tzatziki, something that was available at breakfast and dinner in the hotel, to go with lamb. And the resulting dish was grilled aubergine rolls stuffed with lamb and feta, drizzled with tzatziki. 

Grilled aubergine lamb rolls with tzatziki

Persian lemon chicken

A couple of years ago when we were holidaying in Dubai, we visited the Spice Souk and picked up a few spices. Among them was limu omani, or dried lemon/lime. When we got back home, I didn't quite know what to do with these dried citrus so I searched for recipes online and found one for Persian lemon chicken soup. I tried it out and while the flavours were nice enough, I wasn't completely sold and didn't attempt making it again. The rest of the limu omani were stored in a jar sitting on my spice rack.

Yesterday while trying to come up with a different way of using the chicken pieces I had, I remembered the limu omani and decided it was time to give them another go. And the result was a aromatic lemon chicken with cardamom turmeric rice. 

Persian lemon chicken with cardamom turmeric basmati and blanched green beans

Spicy beef & cabbage soup

I had a yen for a nourishing soupy dish for the past week. I think it has something to do with the weather, which has been wet and chilly. So I picked up some stewing beef from the butcher's last week and a big head of savoy cabbage earlier this week and prepared to make spicy beef and cabbage soup. Even though today turned out rather warm, showing the first sign of spring, I still went ahead as planned.

Spicy beef & cabbage soup

Pan friend chicken with sautéed mushrooms and green beans

Pan grilled lamb chops with vegetables and potatoes

Smokey chicken & rice (2)

Smokey chicken & rice (1)

Poulet en cocotte (3)

Lamb leg steaks with sautéed kale and spicy roasted Rooster potatoes