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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I think that roast chicken is hands-down my favourite roast meat. It used to be a celebration meal in our house and I can remember sitting around our dinner table at the age of about 7 and having a Roast Chicken dinner to celebrate that my parents had finished paying off our house. I distinctly [...]

This is one of my favourite quick recipes. I mum would make it fairly often especially if my dad had a nice cabbage growing in the garden. I really miss home grown veggies and can’t wait to have a bit of garden so that I can start growing some of my own. Chutney Mayo Chicken [...]

My husband loves Bobotie. He will often order it in restaurants and believes that getting Bobotie is a good test of a restaurant. My mother uses Vanilla milkshakes for this. I’m all for cheat methods and easier options especially when it comes to spices. It’s hard to make a recipe for the first time and [...]

I was recently approached by the coffee shop in my husband’s office complex to trial a new carrot cake for them. Their current supplier is stopping the carrot cakes at the end of the year so they need a new supplier. I was given this recipe by my mother and with a name like this [...]