Very strong winds yesterday, warm and dusty, the poor dog nearly got blown off his feet. Still no winter to speak of.
I found some rabbit breast at the local butcher and this experiment turned out rather well:

– mix together strong dijon mustard, whole grain mustard and mild yellow mustard with some ground coriander seeds, chopped coriander leaves and lemon juice
– generously coat the rabbit breasts in the mustard mixture
– place in an ovenproof dish and pour over some madeira
– cook in a hot oven for 45 minutes
– serve with roast vegetables and roquette salad sprinkled with a little mustard sauce made by adding a little more lemon juice and some olive oil to the remaining mustard marinade

Sorry about the terrible photo, no batteries in the camera so I took it with the mobile phone.

Have been extremely lazy with recent posts, some days there are so many things to do and so many things to say and just nothing materializes.
We’ve all been a little dogged by illness, a mixture of huge temperature differences and doing too many things at the same time. Indeed Winter finally arrived last week, we even had snow for a couple of hours and now we are back to Spring again with glorious sunshine and almost summer temperatures, lunching out on the terrace in January is hitherto unheard of, but we get frost at night so the termerature difference over a 24 hour period is sometimes over 20 degrees Celsius.
The wood stove keeps us warm and does most of the cooking – curries, casseroles and saucy dishes are obviously much easier than Chinese food (to get enough heat for the wok you have to really get the wood blazing).
Here is a basic Indian curry recipe which can be adapted to almost anything:

– fry some onions in ghee or oil
– grind up a spice paste with fenugrec seeds, coriander seeds, cardomom pods, cloves, chilli peppers, cinnamon, turmeric (haldi – important for yellow color, you can also use saffron) and garlic
– add the spice mixture to the pan and stir for a couple of minutes, make sure nothing burns
– add two chopped tomatoes and some coconut milk (if using uncooked prawns or shrimp add these too), heat until sauce thickens, otherwise wait and…
– add peeled (cooked) prawns for a few minutes just to heat through.