Potato bean and tomato salad

Ingredients:
2 kg small potatoes, peeled and diced
500g green beans, sliced diagonally
2 red capsicums, sliced
6 egg tomatoes, sliced thickly
Mustard dressing:
½ cup (125 ml) virgin olive oil
2 tbsp white vinegar
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tsp mustard
1 tsp crushed sugar
Salt and black pepper to taste

Method:
Boil potatoes until tender and then drain. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients of the mustard dressing in a bowl and mix well.
Boil or steam beans. Let the vegetables cool. Now arrange potatoes, beans, capsicum and tomatoes, and mix well with the mustard dressing. Serve cold.

Spicy Thai beef salad

Ingredients:
700g rump steak, trimmed
Chilli lime Dressing:
½ cup limejuice
1 tbsp fish sauce
3-4 Thai red chillies, sliced thinly
2/3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander root
? cup firmly packed coriander leaves
½ cup firmly packed fresh mint leaves
4 small onions, thinly sliced
2 tbsp white sugar or to taste
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil

Method:
Boil the rump steak with salt and pepper. After it is done and cooled, then slice up the beef thinly.
Now take all the ingredients of the chilli lime dressing and mix well. Mix with beef and serve cold.

Grilled Portuguese chicken

Ingredients:
1 cup lemon juice
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp red chilli powder
2 tsp dried oregano leaves (optional)
1 tsp salt
2 tsp green or red chilli, seeded and chopped finely
2 clove garlic, crushed
1 whole chicken (approx. 1 kg)

Method:
Combine the juice, oil, chilli powder, oreganos, salt, garlic and chicken in a large bowl. Mix well. Preferably marinate the chicken overnight. Cook chicken in medium heat in the oven till browned on both sides and cooked thoroughly. Serve it with some homemade tomato chutney.

Mutton devil fry

Ingredients:
½ kg mutton
12 flakes of garlic
5cm piece ginger
5cm piece cinnamon
2 cloves
2 cardamoms
3 large tomatoes, chopped
4 tsp plums or aloo bukhara
2 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
3 onions chopped
2 tbsp vinegar
Salt to taste
3 cups of water

Method:
Blend garlic, ginger, clove, cardamom, cinnamon, tomatoes and plums to a paste. Heat ghee and fry onions till brown. Add mutton, vinegar and salt to taste. Mix well in medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Add water. Cook on low heat till meat is done. Gravy will be thick.

(Collected from The Daily Star)

Ingredients:

2/3 cup light margarine, softened
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup walnuts or pecans (chopped)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream butter, brown sugar and vanilla together in a mixing bowl.
Add eggs to above mixture one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Add flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix well until blended.
Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts or pecans.
Place level tablespoon size of cookie dough on a greased baking sheet.
Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.

And the cookies are ready to eat.