Do you ever get the feeling you simply don’t have enough stress in your life? Well, now you can solve that little problem. All you have to do is decide to organise a surprise party for your husband’s birthday! Plus then you make sure that the two of you see and socialize with almost ALL […]
Click here for a full portionNo-knead quick brown bread
Busy busy busy. Yup, that’s how it’s been around here lately. It feels like I am trying to blog myself to an early grave…! Just in case you haven’t been following the story, here’s why: I spent the whole of November taking part in NaBloPoMo, the challenge where bloggers undertake to write a post a […]
Click here for a full portionWTSIM #11 roundup – more topless tarts than a Paris cabaret!
Is it me or is it hot in here? So hot, in fact, that people are whipping off their tops left, right and centre – ooooooeer, Missus! Yes folks, the formerly demure residents of the foodie blogosphere have all decided to get ’em out and show ’em off. The saucy tarts! No really – I […]
Click here for a full portionMushroom soup from scratch
Ain’t life just like that sometimes?? The very last night of NaBloPoMo and TONIGHT I develop IT troubles. It started with problems with the internet browser and after reopening Internet Explorer a few times I though I would re-start the machine to see if that sorted it out. Only… when I restarted it, Windows refused […]
Click here for a full portionNigel Slater’s spicy slow-roast lamb
Some of you may have been wondering where the leftover roast lamb came from that I used to make very-un-traditional lamb Stroganoff last week. Well, wonder no more. This is not the first time I have waxed lyrical about Nigel Slater on this blog. I’m sure I recall saying somewhere that if the house were […]
Click here for a full portionWaiter, there’s something in my… melktert!
Do you know the feeling when you know something is part of your heritage and you know you should like it… but you just don’t? Like my father growing up in the Afrikaner heartland of the Orange Free State province, but not liking braais. Or a Scotsman who can’t stand haggis. Or me, growing up […]
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