Dominica Delight

Hi,

Another island nation and a rather surprising dish, for Dominica we cooked Calypso Chicken, chicken that was marinated in vinegar, garlic and thyme cooked in sugar and butter. It was then cooked further in wine and water along with mushrooms, ginger, garlic and spring onions.

It was a delightful dish although I did find the ginger flavour a touch strong, we decided to serve it with mashed potatoes, carrots and peas.

This country was quite exciting as well, it marks a quarter of the way around the globe!!!

Bye!

Sam’s rating: 8/10

Djibouti Dish

Bonjour,

This former French colony in Africa is influenced by the French cooking. The dish we decided to cook was Skoudehkaris, an aromas meal using spices typical of Africa, cumin, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and cayenne.

The dish tasted very similar to other Afican dishes and wasn’t anything special in itself. Nice enough all the same.

Au revoir

Sam’s rating: 7/10  

Dreary Denmark

Hej

Denmark, a country renowned for its Danish pastries and beautiful dishes however we elected to take the easy way out settling for Danish meatballs.

These meatballs were cooked with wine and served with a pickled salad. I found it a touch dry for my liking and I certainly missed the pastries, it is a pity the challenge is to cook main meals!

Farvel

Sam’s rating: 6/10

Czech Republic

ahoj 

Two roasts in one weekend, it seems that we are living well or trying to catch up on our recipes. This roast was a pork roast cooked in beer. While not quite as good as the lamb roast from Cyprus the pork roast taught me a few new things about making gravy and cooking with beer.

The roast didn’t take as long to cook and was served with cabbage, carrot and dumplings.

Dumplings, I can’t follow the recipe for them and my first attempt at putting the dough into boiling water caused it to go everywhere. In the end I settled for baking the dough which actually turned out quite nice.

This meal is certainly one that is best served hot and best if there are no leftovers.

sbohem

Sam’s rating: 9/10

Cyprus Capers

γεια σας

For this island in the Mediterranean we cooked a lamb roast, it was typical of most roast so nothing too different. While I couldn’t duplicate their cooking methods which typically uses a wood fire oven, the lamb was cooked in the conventional oven for over 5 hours.

After so long in the oven and slow cooking, the lamb was melt-in-the-mouth beautiful, the dish was served with roast vegies.

The Cypriots know their stuff about cooking lamb, that’s for sure!

αντίο

Sam’s rating: 9/10

The land of Cuba

Hola,

The largest island in the Caribbean is Cuba, a land which seems stuck in the past. It seems a fascinating place and one that I would like to visit.

For Cuba we cooked spicy pork with beans and rice. Spicy was the right word! There was a bit too much tomato for my liking.

Adios

Sam’s rating: 7/10

Game of Cooking, Croatia

Zdravo

For this European country, currently popular due to the Game of Thrones, we cooked calamari. The dish was cooked in the oven with potato, white wine, onion and other seasoning. Unfortunately, I think the calamari that we used, which was more typical of calamari rings and dried out too much in the oven.

Considering the bad cooking methods, it was pretty bad, a little bit dry and maybe a touch too much wine.

zbogom

Sam’s rating: 5/10