One sip at a time
Saturday 19 September did not dawn a bright and sunny day. Instead it was a continuation of cold, mist and rain that we had been having for nearly a week. This however did not dampen (ha ha) my enthusiasm for this wonderful day. This was the day for the second KZN Rain Africa bloggers meet and I was excited
This is another recipe from the book my mom-in-law made for Neil. We all know that pecan nuts are not cheap but for 1 ½ cups of pecan nuts you can make 3 pecan nut pies (medium sized foil plates) or 33 small tartlets which is very good. Pastry ½ cup sugar 125g margarine 1 egg
Here is another fabulous recipe from my very favourite recipe book “Best of Cooking in South Africa” by Lynn Bedford Hall. I wasn’t going to blog this recipe but a follower on Twitter requested it so this blog post is especially for Stephanie @stefeg79 One Bowl Orange Loaf Cake 500ml flour 200ml castor sugar 10ml baking powder 1ml salt 125ml
I have wanted to make a coffee cake for quite some time now and yesterday was the day I finally made it. The first book I looked in and my favourite and most used recipe book had a recipe for coffee cake. Neil and I are coming up for our 21st wedding anniversary in August this year and we received
Thursday 28 May was my Mom’s birthday and it has become a tradition to go somewhere to either have tea/coffee and cake or to have a full meal. My parents stay in Botha’s Hill so I wanted to go to a place that was fairly close to them. Just a few kilometres down the road from them is Talloula.
I have been watching Neill Anthony Private Chef on SABC 3 Sunday’s at 4:30pm from the first episode and really enjoying the way the program is filmed, the locations of the meals (those houses and kitchens!) and of course the food. Neill Anthony is running a competition on his Facebook page in conjunction with Wellness Warehouse. You need
Welcome to Part 2 of the Berg Adventure. If you haven’t read Part 1 you must go back to see the pictures of the wonderful Gooderson Monk’s Cowl Resort. So as I said in Part 1 we arrived at the resort on 28 April checked in, unpacked, had lunch and then we went out to start our
Last Thursday (30 April) afternoon my Mom and I returned home after a fabulous stay in the Drakensberg. Before I tell you about our stay I had better tell you how it came about. In October last year I was blessed to win a 2 night stay for 2 adults at Gooderson Monk’s Cowl Resort through the Sunday
Kids grow up so, so fast and tonight (17 April) my firstborn is attending his matric dance. The high school has given all the matrics the day off so my son is sleeping in. Hubby took our daughter to school this morning so I will only have to go out to fetch her later. I had better