If there was ever a truly feel-good food, it simply has to be peppermint crisp tart. This fridge tart favourite is a South African classic, and I don’t know a …
Chocolate Eclairs
There are a few deceiving “so-called basic” dishes in the food world. Deceivingly difficult, that is. Take a béchamel sauce for example: only flour, butter and milk, but it can …
Really crispy chicken strips: perfect rugby food
The Rugby World Cup has officially started today and my husband couldn’t be happier. As far as I understand it, it will be weeks and weeks of endless rugby matches, …
Quick and smooth butter bean soup
To make a great soup, you need to start with great home-made stock. You also need time, because the ingredients need to get comfortable with each other in the pot, …
Classic créme caramel
Most people who grew up in the late 70’s and early 80’s in SA with a TV, would remember the TV ad for “Flanby” by “Chambouchee”. I cannot seem to …
Springbok pie
If you want to make me seriously happy, bring me a pristine 3 kg leg of Springbok as a present. That is what my friends Niel and Nicoline Coetzer did. …
Spiced pecan shortbread
My darling daughter turned 9 months last week. I sometimes look at her and cannot believe that this little angel being is my own child. And now, 9 months have …
Traditional South African Malva Pudding
I never knew malva pudding as a child, believe it or not. My Mom just never made it. And somehow I never had it at anyone else’s house. I think …
Spinach and ricotta cannelloni: a step by step guide
I’ve always been a huge fan of Italian food. It is the way that Italians value food, the way they celebrate life with food, the simple way they cook …
Banana and orange yoghurt cake
The past week hasn’t been my best. It started with my 8 month old daughter falling face first down 3 steps, minutes before I had to drop her with my …