Peppadew cheese puffs – perfect Christmas canapés
Just like living with other people, living alone is something every adult should experience for themselves. Living with other people teaches you about compromise and consideration for others; living...
View ArticleChristmas pudding semifreddo with cinnamon streusel and brandy sauce
One of the things people often ask me at this time of year is what some proper South African Christmas traditions are. It's at times like this when I am faced with the sudden urge to make up...
View ArticleSautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli
One of the disadvantages of having our dining room in the conservatory at the back of the house is that there is no hiding your kitchen and your work-in-progress from your guests. I am inevitably in...
View ArticlePot-roast pheasant with pancetta, apples and a bread gravy
Who can tell me what the following sentence’s claim to fame might be? ”The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.” Points if you said that it provides a an example of...
View ArticleEasy cheesy Brussels sprout gratin
**STOP PRESS** The Randomizer.org has spoken and chosen the winner of the Bluebasil gourmet brownies giveaway – and the winner is EMMA HOWARD! Congratulations, Emma – we will be in touch soon via...
View ArticleSous vide duck breasts with a charred orange & Cointreau sauce
Christmas traditions – they’re a funny old lot, aren’t they? For a start, how did the idea of a snowy Christmas with frost on the windows and northern hemisphere pine trees become so pervasive that...
View ArticleChocolate chestnut fondant – a decadent Christmas dessert
The other day, a friend and fellow-blogger asked an open question of his readers: do you collect mementos when you travel, and if so, what? If you’d aked me that question 15 years ago, the answer...
View ArticleClementine and cranberry upside-down cake
Regard the humble cranberry. Just like that plain Jane in your university history course who seemed to have nothing of any interest to share with the world, but who was actually a pole dancing rock...
View ArticleHomemade cranberry clementine vodka and a Christmas cocktail
When I was a student, we loved to play Pictionary – even more so if we could convert into a drinking game of some sort. Of course, I always insisted on being in a team with my darling future...
View ArticleBrandy and Coke glazed gammon for a South African Christmas feast
Long before Buzzfeed or Mashable saw the light of day, I was a fan of lists. As far back as the early 1980s, some of my brother’s and my most treasured possessions were the two volumes of the...
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