Yesterday the verse of Mathew 6:33 really inspired me. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these things shall be added to you.” (NKJV) Last night was the the first cell/home-group meeting of the year and when my husband got home at about 5:45, all I wanted to do was put [...]

So my body is starting to adjust to the fact that it needs to digest and use up energy differently to normal. I don’t know what the biology is behind it all, but I had a mean headache yesterday and felt really tired. I assume that I’m detoxing from sugar, because I can’t pinpoint anything [...]

Isn’t it amazing that when we deprive ourselves of something, that’s all we want! I’ve only completed one day of the fast and it was pretty hard considering how much baking I was doing yesterday. Normally, when breaking all of the chocolate blocks and discs, there are bound to be a couple that land up [...]

Ahh Soul Food! Each time we go to Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens we have to bypass the Gorillas:

Anyone who grows up in a Christian household has a basic idea of fasting. Many people have wrong ideas and approaches to it and it’s quite difficult to get everything biblical in line. The first few times that I fasted, I got it very wrong. The definition of a fast is to to deny food [...]

I recently had a conversation with someone about salad and having it for dinner. They looked at me as though there was something seriously flawed in my logic. To them, salad just doesn’t equal a meal. A side dish, yes or a starter, absolutely, but not a meal in itself. I’ll often have salad for [...]

One question that I love to ask people is if they prefer a fridge cheesecake or a baked one. Mostly I find that people have a definite preference and mine has to be fridge. So, armed with my brand new Kenwood Titanium Major mixer, I decided to give a cheesecake a try. I wanted to [...]

When I was young I refused to entertain the idea that I might eat kidneys. It just seemed completely ‘gross’. The more I learnt about the body the more I decided that kidneys just shouldn’t be eaten, but my parents happily had them every now and then and I scrunched up my nose and grimaced [...]

Having been inundated with Christmas Cookie orders I didn’t have time to sort out a couple of Christmas presents before I left to join my family for the holidays. Yesterday I spent a lovely half an hour thumbing through recipe books looking for a cookie recipe that would work as a gift with a bit [...]

Again, better late than never… Angela is a running buddy of mine and asked me to help out with her wedding. They wanted something very low-key and easy and what started out as a quick visit to the registry office turned into an incredibly natural and special wedding. The ceremony was held on Chapman’s peak [...]

I realise that this is a little late seeing as though the course ended in the beginning of December, but it was a fantastic course and I just had to write something on it. We learnt how to make our own puff pastry and Christmas cookies along with learning how to properly ice our Christmas [...]