I am not a great fish lover, in fact the less it tastes like fish the more I like it. Smoked salmon is definitely not on my menu choice, but then I surprise myself by enjoying kippers at breakfast. My palate is weird and let’s just leave it at that. I read quite a number [...]

I have been overwhelmed by the number of hits that I get on my site for this treatment. It seems that there just isn’t enough information out there to satisfy people with a healthy dose of cynicism. There are some major horror stories of chemical burns on the scalp going around as well as very [...]

The past weekend was another example of being a tourist, but this time a little further out of Cape Town. Two years ago a couple of my friends took up running with the goal of doing the Two Oceans Half Marathon and wanted to do try out the half marathon distance before trying to do [...]

We have a problem in my house: my husband survives on two cups of coffee all day, gets home and could eat a horse. Not the healthiest way to live, but such is life at the moment. We were out on Monday evening for a course and on our drive home we unfortunately drive past [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]