A simple recipe. Only 3 ingredients. But oh so tasty.  What you need is 4 chicken breast fillets, 4-10 pieces of bacon and BBQ sauce of your choice (I used homemade South African Monkey Gland sauce).  Start by cutting each piece of chicken in half lengthwise.  Place a piece of bacon on the cutting board and roll the chicken into a ball before wrapping the chicken ball with bacon.  Secure with ...

Wraps are sometimes the easiest meals to throw together. These wraps have the following ingredients:  chicken, mango slices, arugula (rocket), peanut butter, soy sauce, sesame oil, lime juice, chicken broth/stock and flour tortillas (which I forgot to add to the ensemble).  Cut the chicken breasts into thin strips.  For the marinade, pour the peanut butter, chicken broth, soy sauce and sesame seed oil into a bowl.  Next, juice and add the limes.  Save 1/4 cup ...

Chicken & figs…trying something new here. We had a fig tree in our backyard in Cape Town and every summer big fat over-ripe figs dropped onto the patio. The smell after a few days in the hot sun wasn't something I appreciated. I did appreciate, however, when a fat fig dropped squarely onto my Dad's bare back as he went about picking up the rotting figs. Now that was funny!  The ...

Created for Warren's lunchbox. I think he's tired of leftovers.   Ingredients are: chicken, apples, cottage cheese, plain yoghurt, cilantro, milk, green onion, oil for cooking, curry powder and/or garam masala), and pitas.   Start by heating a pan and cooking the chicken. Once cool, chop the chicken into smaller pieces.   Chop the cilantro leaves and the apple into smaller pieces.   Fry the onion until soft.   Turn the heat off and add the curry and/or garam masala ...