Archive

Listed are the posts for February 2011.

Potato Salad – not so hard to get it right

I really enjoy a good potato salad. At a braai or buffet it’s usually the first thing that I reach for and a generous scoop starts my meal, but you wont believe the number of times that I have been disappointed! Of course, I valiantly persevere, thinking that the next one will be good. Every [...]


How to be a tourist in Cape Town

Have you ever been so busy with life that you forget to live? Cape Town is a truly phenomenal place to live. We are surrounded by beauty and interesting things to do and see, but unfortunately the procrastination bug often bites. After a full work week it is easier to veg on the couch watching [...]


Stuffed Peppers – what a meal

During this Daniel Fast I have done surprisingly little cooking. I’ve used the mushroom risotto recipe twice and had nice wholewheat pasta quite a few times. Other than that we have been eating out or at Bible Study or having salads, so last night I decided to try something different. I was going to make [...]


Daniel Fast – week 3 (Home stretch)

The Daniel Fast is now in it’s final week and you can see the difference in some people in church, not only physically, but they have a different glow about them. I think that this has been an awesome time of growing closer to God and just getting ourselves back on track.


Horse Birthday Cake – testing my skills

A few months ago I was asked to do a birthday cake for the 29th of January and I was given a picture of what was wanted. It was a beautiful cake, covered in blue plastic icing with a layers of plastic icing creating a picture of a horse along with flowers, polka dots and [...]


Daniel Fast – Week 2 begins

Now that the busy-ness of the weekend is over I have time to write again… I think that the middle of something is usually the hardest. Week 2 is thus the hardest of a 3 week fast. This is due to being all fired up and excited in week 1 and having the end in [...]