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As Promised - Some Simple Summer Salads and A Crackling Good Pork Belly
OK. If I loathe one thing, it must be a promise made and not kept. I can remember Butch’s mom Bets’ disappointment when a lady at her bible study (nogal) PROMISED to visit and never did. She was profoundly hurt. The person who made the glib promise (as we so often do.. “Oh we must get...
Winning Winter Warmers When It's Welly Cold
Recipes to warm your heart – Cinnamon Pancakes, Beetroot Risotto and Lamb necks on the braai. This quotation inspires today’s blog “Don’t think about making art, get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even...
Bolognaise Arancini - Flavour Bombs
Arancini is an Italian dish using small balls of Arborio rice, filled with a savoury filling, coated in breadcrumbs, and fried. Arancini is synonymous with Sicily. It’s raining, cold, and miserable. Everyone has fires roaring in the grate, and comfort food is calling, creating a cozy,...
Quiche Me Quick
When it’s sunny and days can be spent on the beach with a book, there’s no time to linger in the kitchen. Quick, easy meals like these help you enjoy your day without stress. Having a few vegetarian recipes in your arsenal is always a good idea, especially when on holiday. I find we need...
Sunday AKA The Wife’s Day Off - Potjiekos recipe and my Polenta
In South Africa, husbands give their wives “the day off” when THEY cook, often on a Sunday, to let them relax and enjoy some leisure time. It means we don’t have to stand in front of the stove and sweat it out. This day off doesn’t come cheap, though. We earn it. Before we can twiddle our...
Hot Chick Spicing Up The Kitchen
Winter food to spice up your life: add heat to your menu with colourful spices, bring out the tartness of citrus with a saucy pudding, go tropical with a pod of vanilla, and pick up an exotic thread of saffron. These international recipes from around the world will spark curiosity and motivate...
Chocolate Champagne and Caviar - Sparkling Berry Cocktail, Blini's, Chocolate Timbale, Berry Compote, Almond Bread
These three C’s, Chocolate, Champagne, and Caviar, are the star attractions that inspire wise hosts to create an elegant, memorable festive table. “Happiness, simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart, Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” - Joanne Harris, Chocolat. Don't invite the usual...
Fashionable Food for Fabulous Fridays - Recipes for the weekend
Those are some of my favourite F words; fortunately, it was a good week, so I have no desire to stab someone with a cake fork. To celebrate the weekend, there’s nothing better than having fab food lined up, which won't keep you in the kitchen for hours. Try these when serving sundowners or...
Cheese Souffles
There’s nothing nicer than waking up to a freshly mowed lawn, Cape White-eyes splashing in the birdbath, and that special feeling of well-being when the sun shines. Perfect Porcelain blooms cover rosebushes; I spot the neighbour’s cat unwinding himself from his scratch-pole. All this calls for...