While watching “The Delicious Miss Dahl” the other day on BBC Lifestyle, I jotted down Sophie’s recipe for a decadent flourless chocolate cake. For those who haven’t had the pleasure …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Sticky cinnabons: a tribute to Nook Eatery
I recently became a coffee person after being a tea drinker of note for years. It started last year when I became pregnant: besides chocolate, coffee was one of my …
Organic banana loaf
A light and fluffy banana loaf made with organic bananas from my sister’s garden on Lourensford Farm, Somerset West.
Seedy oat bars with almonds
Easy, delicious oat bars with added sunflower seeds, linseeds, black sesame seeds and flaked almonds.
Buttermilk scones
With the infamous royal wedding coming up this week, we should probably eat lots and lots of scones, don’t you think? It would be my selfless tribute to Her Majesty. …
Sannie Smit’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Classic, chewy, American-style choc chip cookies.
I love “pampoentert” (pumpkin tart)
I love pumpkin fritters. In Afrikaans we call it “pampoenkoekies”: those little round yellow pan-fried bundles of joy topped with cinnamon sugar. It just sounds much nicer in Afrikaans. It …