I’m sharing this as a separate recipe, as we make them a lot for various meals such as grilled chicken quesadillas, beef burritos, and egg breakfast burritos. You can wrap up pretty much anything in these circular delights – great for lunches too as they are a lighter alternative to bread. Making flour tortillas from…
Risotto with Duck Breasts and Roasted Red Peppers
After a summer of non-stop outdoor grilling and dining al fresco, this is the perfect dish to greet fall weather. The days are cooler and the sun sets earlier in the evening, but you can light candles and with the indoor smells of something good coming from the kitchen, it’s nothing but Gemütlichkeit. Especially if…
Beef Carpaccio
My first time having beef carpaccio was at a restaurant terrace in Florence, celebrating my 30th birthday with Ralph. It was also my first time having arugula, which became my favourite lettuce in the world. The flavour combination of this dish brought me to tears. Or maybe it was because I turned 30. We enjoyed…
Charred Baby Bok Choy
We are fortunate to have a store in a nearby village that sells Asian goods. They always have packages of fresh baby bok choy in the fridge. We buy all of our sushi ingredients except the fresh fish and seafood here too. This recipe is dead simple and can be made on a charcoal grill…
Peri Peri Chicken on a Charcoal Grill
Ralph discovered this dish from watching a cooking video on a flight to Portugal. In the video he saw, 16 chickens being grilled at once over fire between two big screens which the cooks kept flipping over – drenched in sweat but with big smiles. He made a mental note to try it at home,…
Grilled Zucchini with Goat Cheese
I’m not a big grilled zucchini fan, as I find the flavour boring. Zucchini soup and muffins I enjoy, and stuffed zucchini can be nice too. A few weeks ago I came across a lady at our Friday market selling jars of homemade goat cream cheese with only four ingredients: goat milk, herb salt, Salinas…
Roasted Prime Rib Low & Slow
One of the most important relationships you need in life is with a butcher (unless you‘re vegan or vegetarian). Ralph has two, and they are also farmers. One is at our local Friday farmer’s market with Ralf Stoffers (but we call him the ‘Lamb Guy’) and the other is with Günter Feddern who has a…
Grilled Chicken Quesadillas with Papaya (or Peaches)
My brother is the inspiration behind this recipe, who made us grilled chicken quesadillas with papaya many, many years ago. We are not big fans of combining fruit with dinner entrees, but the sweetness of the papaya goes brilliantly with the charred chicken and peppers! We couldn’t find papaya at our market, but as it’s…
Tomato Auflauf on the BBQ
There is a lady at our local farmer’s market who sells these colourful heirloom tomatoes that she grows herself. Ralph saw a similar recipe in our Italian Cooking Encyclopedia for plum tomatoes using other herbs and modified it for this tomato Auflauf (casserole) recipe. We make it regularly during the summer and early fall. Ralph…
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