It’s easy to be intimidated when you hear, sous vide. It is in fact, the easiest and most accurate way to ensure your meat is cooked to perfection, especially when it comes to tricky cuts like fillet or lamb. Translated from French, sous vide means ‘under vacuum’. And to show you just how simple this water bath cooking method can…
It’s easy to be intimidated when you hear, sous vide. It is in fact, the easiest and most accurate way to ensure your meat is cooked to perfection, especially when it comes to tricky cuts like fillet or lamb. Translated from French, sous vide means ‘under vacuum’. And to show you just how simple this water bath cooking method can…
If you’re heading outdoors next week to celebrate with family or catching up with friends, here are some of my most loved and regularly made Salads and Sides for Heritage Day. Once you’ve made a Life changing Wild rice salad, you’ll be hooked. Simple ingredients and exuberant greens that go with just about anything. If you’re at all besotted with grain…
To help make this Heritage Day deliciously memorable, I’ve bundled together my top picks of what to cook, make and bake. Whether you’re gathering indoors for your mother’s signature home-cooked dish or heading outdoors to light the fire, here are a few of my go-to Heritage Day Meat recipes that never let me down. Bredie is as much a part of…
Baked donuts are a quick and fuss-free alternative to deep-frying. There’s no yeasted dough, kneading or extended proofing, just a straight forward mix of wet and dry ingredients. In keeping with tradition, these Jammy Strawberry Yoghurt Donuts have a delicate swirl of homemade strawberry jam laced through the batter. They smell like strawberry cream milkshakes and sweet summer breezes. On…
When you’re testing a new recipe and the room goes quiet, you realise you’ve stumbled onto something truly remarkable. There are some recipes that are worth going wild for. This Pretzel Brownie S’mores Cake is one such recipe. If you’re a regular visitor to the blog you will know, we’re not shy with our chocolate recipes. Besides fruit, there’s no…
It’s been exactly 6 years since I published my first blog post. I still remember how daunting it felt to hit the Publish key. We celebrated the occasion with cake, a simple raspberry vanilla cake with buttercream frosting and fresh flowers. Today we’re doing the same with one of my most loved cake recipes, a Red velvet coconut cake. Four…
I can’t think of a more delicious closure to winter than Sticky Fig and Walnut Pudding. It could be a distant cousin to our much loved South African favourite, Malva pudding, but with softened figgy bits and toasted walnuts. Once baked, the chestnut sponge is thoroughly drenched with a nutty butterscotch sauce. It’s irresistibly sweet and worth every indulgent spoonful….
Initially, these Ras el Hanout Meatballs were headed for the Ebook. In the end, choosing which recipes to include came down to space. It seems a common problem when publishing a cookbook. Over catering? So here they are then. For meatball lovers, because there are many of us. Offer them with flatbreads or heavily herbed bulgur wheat and something cool…
Dessert could be considered slightly posh. Pudding however, is more approachable, the kind of bring to the table, help yourself affair. And because most of us are still cocooning indoors with comfort food and winter woollens, today we’re passing around the pudding bowls and dishing up these Five Swoony Baked Pudding Recipes. The recipe for this Chocolate and Pear Malva…
It seems Spring salads and sandals will have to wait. Hopefully this is the last of winter’s cold shoulder. In the meantime, here are Seven delicious curry recipes to keep you company. Don’t skimp on the naan. You’re going to need it. Next to Butter chicken curry and Tikka masala, chicken korma is one of the most popular curries. It’s not…
