Fireside dinner menu # 20 – the meat-free edition

I think together with new year resolutions and attempts to reinvent ourselves, there is definitely a trend currently to have a few meat free meals per week. We have not yet gone there, but I did chat to a friend this morning who said that they have now incorporated this into their weekly meal plan.

Cyclone Eloise has brought wet weather to our parts and soup and curry is definitely back on the menu this week!

I, therefore, decided to give you a few options that can be done on the braai. Try these as a side or a main. Scroll down to download the menu with clickable links.

And yes, I know the zucchini slice has bacon listed, you can leave that out.

Fireside Dinner Menu # 19

This morning I got my first request for a menu post. Apparently someone needs some ideas! My apologies for neglecting the fireside… trust me, it is not that we have not been eating… just not typing about it.

This week’s menu is not terribly ambitious, but here it is. The happiest find here, however, was pulled pork. I made panini’s but you can do almost anything with it. Even lasagna! The link is to a variety of pulled pork recipes.

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Fireside Dinner Menu # 18

So this week I am posting “off site”. We are blessed to be on our December holiday in the Eastern Cape. Scroll down to download the file with the links to some of the recipes.

The menu this week has a lot of ambitious efforts of which the highlight is probably Jan Braai’s carrot cake. It is as fantastic as it sounds, and I am thinking we might try it for our Christmas dinner as well.

I clearly also had a coconut milk theme going this week!