It’s my Blogiversary!
Happy blogiversary Food Stories! One year old today – how time flies when you’re having fun. As you may know by now (if not, where have you been?!), I am celebrating for a whole week by updating with a new summer salad recipe every day. This post however, is not about salad – we’ll get back to that tomorrow, this post is about a kebab. Yes, you heard me – I am celebrating my first blogiversary with a kebab and I make no apologies. Food Stories is classy you see….Anyway, I maintain that a kebab can also be top notch grub – so there.
My very first post (cringe – please don’t read it), exactly one year ago today, was about the very same subject – a fine way to start a food blog in my opinion. Of course, this isn’t going to be your average slimy offender with unidentifiable brown meat and cheap-tasting, gloopy, chemical infused sauces. Would you like some brown tinged iceberg with that? Nah, you’re alright thanks mate. Not that I haven’t eaten one quite a few of course (alcohol can be a terrible thing) – that’s how I know…..
This, this, is lamb infused with a heady spiced rub and cooked slowly on our shiny new barbecue – topped with a cooling tzatziki, a drizzle of Chris’ chilli super sauce, crunchy tomato, onion and coriander salad – all sealed in a warm freshly made flat bread. This is by no means an ‘authentic’ recipe for the lamb or even the tzatziki but it is ours and we are very happy with it. Nom, nom, nom. Happy blogiversary Food Stories! Nom, nom, nom….
P.S – We also ate pickled chillies. Nom, nom, nom…..
Spiced Rub for Lamb
This made enough for a really small leg of lamb (about 600g).
3 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 sprig rosemary
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon cayenne
Zest of 2 lemons
5 black peppercorns
4 cardamom pods, seeds removed and husks discarded
Small pinch saffron (optional)
Olive oil
- Pound everything to within an inch of it’s life in a pestle and mortar and loosen to a paste with olive oil. Rub on your chosen cut and leave to marinate overnight if possible.
Tzatziki
Total Greek yoghurt (that’s my fave brand)
Small bunch mint leaves. shredded
Small bunch dill, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed with some sea salt
Black pepper
Juice of half a lemon
1/4 large cuke
- Mix together and adjust quantities until you are happy with the flavour.
Category: Barbecue, Blogiversary!, Bread, Main Dishes, Meat, Sandwiches 24 comments »
July 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Congrats Helen and happy cooking!
July 8th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Happy blogiversary!
July 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Congratulations Helen! A kebab is a fine way to celebrate I say..our celebration feast sounds delicious! Love all the flavours.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Congratulations and happy anniversary, Helen!
July 8th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Congratulations! Happy Blogiversary! You’re doing a sterling job
July 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Congrats!!!! Food looks so good!
July 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Happy anniversary! I haven’t had lamb for a while, and now I want some!
July 8th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Happy blogiversary! And what a way to celebrate it with that delicious recipe. We all need more lamb in our lives, right?
July 8th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Congrats Helen! I can see no better way to celebrate! What is classier than lamb, pray tell?
July 8th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Happy blogiversary!!!
July 8th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Happy Blogiversary! Wow, I can’t believe it’s already here.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Happy Blog Birthday Helen! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Helen, Happy birthday to you!
And boy, you are lucky not to have any volume on this!
Since you bring up the topic of salads, then remember the No Crountons Required challenge. It is a herb inspired soup or salad this month
July 8th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Happy anniversary! Wishing you many more years of blogging!
Your salad recipes are so good!
July 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Congratulations! What a tasty looking way to celebrate.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Happy one year of blogging! Keep up the good work!
July 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Happy Blogiversary, Helen!!! Many happy returns! The lamb looks great!
July 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Happy Bloggyversary!
July 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Happy Blog Birthday!! Hope you have many, many more, your blog is terrific!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Happy Blogiversary!
July 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Happy Blog Birthday Helen. I look forward to another year of your delicious recipes.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:17 am
happy blogisversary – I had a peek at the first post and it didn’t make me cringe at all – but it is interesting to see your post when you hadn’t developed your own style!
Can’t say I would join you in the lamb kebab – whenever I think of them I think of Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island saying the rotating slabs of meat in the kebab shops remind him of a man’s thigh – glad I was vegetarian when I read that!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Congrats, hurray for you! Lamb kebabs, mmmmm, the best kind!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I”m with Christie, hurray for you and lamb kebabs! A great way to start and celebrate a year of blogging. Many more happy years! BTW, love that shot of the spice paste in the mortar –yum!
July 25th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Happy blogaversary to you, happy blogaversary to you…!
It’s been great to get to know you via your blog and this kebab looks fantastic – the way it’s meant to, not the way it’s been perverted in dingy late-night shops around the country!
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