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Dishes that require a moderate amount of skill, not for beginners, but still manageable for the home cook.
Biltong
This biltong recipe honors the traditional method of meat preservation, resulting in a savory, spiced, and slightly tangy dried meat snack.
Steak and kidney pie
A very British recipe for beef steak cubes. British butchers always have beef or veal kidney clean, cored and cut, one can even purchase the beef cubes and kidney mix ready to cook.
Steak, Guinness and kidney pie
This recipe is delicious served with potato mash to soak up the sauce, and a side of your choice of vegetables.
Roasted root vegetable soup
This is a very warming winter soup. It’s very substantial and will keep you going through those cold winter months!
Black bean soup from Cuba
This is a very poular soup in Cuba. Every Cuban family has its own black bean soup recipe. Many Cubans have adapted their recipe to use local ingredients when they moved out of the island, so there are even more variations.
Shredded beef chimichangas
Chimichangas de carne de res by their Mexican name.
Sweet corn cake
Serve this sweet corn cake as a Mexican side dish.
Dulce jamoncillo
This Mexican sweet treat is often called “Milk Fudge” because of its consistency. As with regular fudge, it can be made with or without nuts. It’s rich and creamy and simple to make, though it does take several hours to prepare. It is often found cut into medium size squares but can also be rolled into logs and sliced into candy-size pieces.
Chicken tamales
The tamale is a traditional dish made by filling a masa coated leaf with any number of ingredients and then cooked by steam. You may think making tamales is hard but nothing could further from the truth as we show you here.
Potato and red onion frittata
A recipe for potato and red onion frittata inevitably reminds of the Mediterranean, right down to feta cheese.