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Royco Beef Flavoured Roast Potatoes

Potatoes are fantastic! You can never run out of ideas of what to do with them. This here is a simple, economic and delicious variation. You’ll need 6 ingredients for this dish and you’re good to go. The new Royco Usavi Mix beef flavour worked so well to season these […]

 
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(sponsored) 25 minute Pilchards Fish cakes

My family absolutely loved these! Second helpings were in order, I in fact had to restrain the children from a third helping as I was sure they were full after seconds! They later confessed I was right, “the food was just too yummy”! This time I used Royal Ocean’s Pilchards […]

 
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Mild Curry ‘n Herb Roast Potatoes

There is yet one more way to prepare your potatoes. These here mild curry and herb roast potatoes are a great variation. I made them mild so my kids could also enjoy! If you want them hot you can add more curry powder! You can serve them with your preferred […]

 
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How To Make a Snack Platter

Here is how to make a snack platter. Give your best to your visitors and with a lasting impression on top using a snack platter as an appetizer. This platter has meat balls, cocktail sausage rolls, chicken mayo sandwiches and vegetable samoosas. Here’s a quick guide on how to do […]

 
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Delish Steak and Kidney Stir-fry

Steak and kidney pie, no, stir-fry! Just about everyone is used to seeing pie at the end of the combination of steak and kidney. Well, we just changed things a little here and made a stir-fry instead and served it with par-boiled rice and white sauce and my oh my.. […]

 
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Garlic and onion par-boiled rice

For some Zimbabweans, par-boiled rice is associated with the time period when things were extremely difficult in Zim and you could hardly find goods in the supermarket. Par-boiled rice is what was mostly available. Many people despise it now as that’s what they mostly ate. But did you know that par-boiled […]

 

Curried Rice

Rice is one of the most popular starch dishes we eat as Zimbabweans. It’s therefore good to spice it up a little every now and then so there’s variety with your meals. This here is a lightly curried version. The kids loved it and so did everyone who ate it! […]

 

Thyme and Garlic Roasted Baby Potatoes

Baby potatoes are fabulous!! They are especially perfect for that day when you don’t feel like standing much in the kitchen and want a quick and tasty meal. Baby potatoes also called new potatoes can be of any potato variety such as White potatoes or Red potatoes. Preparation of these […]

 

Creamy Egg Plant and Potato Bake

Casseroles are always a winner at our family dinner table. I enjoy the fact that you can assemble it all in one “pot” and get the rest ready whilst it’s cooking. We all enjoyed this and I hope you will too. Updated: this recipe assumed use of regular purple eggplant. […]