For my final Olympic Food Challenge dish I really wanted to do something a bit special and something a bit tasty. As both Gav and I really do like a good curry, I was pleased to find that I could get away with making one for the last of my allocated countries, all thanks to the Malay people who were brought to SA as slaves. And, ok, I could have gone with a more traditional SA dish, a more indigenous dish, but come on, I’s already cooked dishes from two different countries in Africa and I really did fancy a curry! … Continue reading Olympic Food Challenge – South Africa – Bunny Chow with South African Malay Curry

The Olympic Food Challenge has been a complicated affair, for Olympic Food Challenge Master, Ewan that is (thankfully my only responsibility has been cooking a few dishes and writing a few posts). Imagine all those countries, all those bloggers and all those posts to manage; it’s enough to drive anyone insane. And just as everything seemed to be going so well, I managed to throw a spanner in the works by discovering that two of us had been given Guinea-Bissau! After a bit of searching through various spreadsheets, it became clear that Guinea was missing from everyone’s allocated countries and that the … Continue reading Olympic Food Challenge – Guinea – Yétissé de Poulet

When I first saw that I had Iran, I though ‘What the hell am I gonna do for that’, then the brain got into gear and I remembered Iran used to be called Persia and I’ve had Persian food before. Admittedly, it wasn’t very good, thanks to the restaurant I visited, but I had the gist of the cuisine. I knew it had to be lamb and I had visions of something with pomegranates. Finding a recipe with the former ingredient was easy, but with the latter, was not. So, I ditched the pomegranates and went for a herby lamb stew with … Continue reading Olympic Food Challenge – Iran – Koresht Gorme Sabzi & Persian Rice

Geography is not my strong point and I hadn’t even heard of Honduras, never mind about knew where it was or what type of cuisine I would be faced with. On checking a map, I was glad to see it lies close to Mexico. After all, we all like Mexican food don’t we? Sadly Honduras is yet to win a medal, but I don’t care. Today is all about Team GB as we won six. Six medals in a day. And three of them were won between 9.00 and 9.45 tonight thanks to Jess Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford! … Continue reading Olympic Food Challenge – Honduras – Baleadas

The Congo; it gave us Um Bongo, set the scene for The Heart of Darkness and it boasts an awfully big river. Until recently, that was all I knew about this magical land (and I think there’s no denying that the midst of the Congo is pretty magical) but having been landed with the country as part of the Olympic Food Challenge I was forced to find out a little bit more… Wikipedia is always a good place to start when it comes to this kind of thing and, although I didn’t read the whole article, I did catch that … Continue reading Olympic Food Challenge – The Congo – Muamba Nsusu and Fufu