Tried this for Sunday lunch; it went down well.

( Yum )

We were blessed with the company of slemslempike and hfnuala this afternoon, and prepared three new Georgian recipes:

( Lobio Mtsvanilit - ლობიო მწვანილით - Herbed Kidney Beans )

Having reached London too late to get to last night's BSFA meeting, I persuaded djm4 - who I had not seen in over two decades - to try Georgian food. There are in fact several Georgian restaurants in London, but the handiest by far, which also seemed to have a decent write-up in Time Out, was Iberia at 294 Caledonian Road, just north of King's Cross. ( Read more... )

We had my 92-year-old great-aunt join us for lunch yesterday, and I reckoned (correctly) that despite her career as a domestic science instructor she had little experience of Georgian cuisine. I produced the following:

1. Khinkali - though not too many, since this was only lunch
2. Eggy mushrooms with herbs
3. Beans with garlic
4. A new recipe for me, beetroot ( Read more... )

A fairly experimental set of recipes last night, with friends M and E coming over for dinner, and my mother-in-law staying, so it was cooking for five.

( Starter: Asparagus Soup, Georgian recipe )

Thanks to a locked post on my friends-list, I now know where to eat next time I visit the Great Wen.

(Coincidentally, the nickname "The Great Wen" was coined by William Cobbett, who had a garden more or less where the Gerorgian restaurant is now.)

Anne had got a massive chunk of lamb for dinner yesterday, which was just about enough for seven adults (including my mother, liberaliser and the future Mrs liberaliser, and the future Mrs liberaliser's parents, who mainly speak Hungarian). I found a really good recipe for it, as follows:

( Lamb recipe )

Had three more successful recipes over the last couple of days, one New Internationalist, one Georgian, and one even from Good Housekeeping, which I shall record here.

( Colombian beef stew with fruit )

Over the holiday weekend I did a number of Georgian recipes, some for the first time, some that I had succeeded with before. I know a few of you are interested in cooking, and anyway posting them here is a good way of keeping the recipes to hand if I should ever find myself somewhere without the recipe book but with an internet connection (and adds ( Read more... )

At least I think it is called სოუსი in Georgian; that's the most likely transliteration of the name given in the recipe book (sousi) and I found it on a cookery webpage in Georgian, but am still not completely convinced.

Anyway it was a delicious beef stew. Recipe as follows:

2 pounds/1 kilo of stewing beef, cut into 1-inch cubes

1 1/4 sticks of ( Read more... )