{"id":2113,"date":"2013-03-10T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:42:43","slug":"ostrich-neck-in-a-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Ostrich neck in a pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lekkerkampplekke.co.za\/index.php\/tuis\/resepte-2\/1170-potjiekos\">Volstruisnek-potjie<\/a>, translated because I&#8217;m sure one can use the same basic recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/jigsawsthoughts.blogspot.com\/\">should one have a hunk of kangaroo handy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found some ostrich neck at a good price. Undoubtedly because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/articles\/2012\/03\/02\/new-bird-flu-case-dashes-ostrich-export-plans\">the EU didn&#8217;t want it<\/a>, but hey. Ons is nie bang nie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1270457s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2116\" title=\"P1270457s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1270457s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, in my black pot, I browned the meat in some oil in two batches. Then, some onions, on a low heat, went off, loaded some ammo.<\/p>\n<p>Now you layer some potato slices or halved baby potatoes and some carrots. Then about a teaspoon of fresh rosemary, then some baby marrows, grean beans and two\/three chopped tomatoes, or a tin of same.<\/p>\n<p>The potjiekos thing is the layering, and the no stirring.<\/p>\n<p>Some salt over the veggies, and two cups of chicken stock with a bit of lemon juice added into the pot. The original recipe adds vodka as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1270458s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2117\" title=\"P1270458s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1270458s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heat until the stock is boiling, then cover and simmer slowly for two hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>Serve with rice and a green salad.<\/p>\n<p>And whatever you do,<strong> don&#8217;t stir the pot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volstruisnek-potjie, translated because I&#8217;m sure one can use the same basic recipe should one have a hunk of kangaroo handy. I found some ostrich neck at a good price. Undoubtedly because the EU didn&#8217;t want it, but hey. Ons is nie bang nie. So, in my black pot, I browned the meat in some oil in two batches. Then, some onions, on a low heat, went off, loaded some ammo. Now you layer some potato slices or halved baby potatoes and some carrots. Then about a teaspoon of fresh rosemary, then some baby marrows, grean beans and two\/three chopped tomatoes,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}