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#ValentinesDay: When food is your love language

───   14:05 Fri, 11 Feb 2022

#ValentinesDay: When food is your love language | News Article
PHOTO: Unsplash/Jasmine Waheed

“While it’s always a joy (or mostly) to cook for someone you love, you want to spoil them a little more on Valentine’s Day.” – Food blogger, Ilse Smalberger

An instant impression is made with the first bite you take. Activating all your senses! As we know, food is a love language of its own and even better so when prepared by someone you fancy. This Valentine’s Day, Smalberger shares the perfect home-cooked meal and dessert idea for you to make for your loved one on this special occasion.

 

Nigella Lawson’s Garlic & Lemon Chicken. 

Serves 4-8

· 8-10 chicken pieces

· 1 head of garlic, separated into unpeeled cloves

· 2 lemons, rinsed and cut into eighths

· A few sprigs of fresh thyme (or sprinkle dried thyme)

· 3 tablespoons olive oil (or vegetable oil)

· 150ml white wine

· Freshly ground black pepper

Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Put the chicken into a roasting tin and add the garlic cloves, lemon chunks, and thyme (roughly pull the leaves off the stalks). Add the oil and using your hands, mix everything together, then spread the mixture out, making sure all the chicken pieces are skin side up.

Pour over the white wine and grind on some pepper, then cover tightly with foil and put in the oven to cook for 60 to 90 minutes (depending on the size of the chicken pieces). It should be almost cooked through.

Remove the foil from the tin and turn up the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Cook the chicken uncovered for another 15-20 minutes, until the skin is crispy, the chicken is cooked through, and the lemons start to caramelize at the edges. Squeeze out the now soft garlic from its skin and serve! Goes great with potato wedges or mashed potato and a crisp green salad!

A good meal is not complete without dessert! 

Next on the roster we have frozen lemon dessert by Riana Scheepers.

· 200g (1 packet) of Lemon Cream biscuits, crushed

· 45ml (3 tablespoons) of melted butter

· 1x385g tin of condensed milk

· 200ml freshly squeezed lemon juice

· Zest of 2 lemons

· 500ml (2 cups) cream

Mix the biscuit crumbs with the melted butter and press tightly onto a loose-bottomed cake tin. Mix the condensed milk with the lemon juice and zest. Whip the cream until stiff and fold into the mixture. Pour into the cake tin, on top of the breadcrumbs, and freeze. Remove from the freezer at least one hour before you want to serve it.

Smalberger is the curator of her own content on the social media platform Facebook, Ilse’s Cooking The Books, where she shares different food recipes from the cookbook collection she has. If food is your love language, may Valentine’s Day be an extra special one!


Nastacia Cornelius


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