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The tipsy Monte Cristo Ingredients: Berry jam:  Method  Curried sweet potato mash Ingredients:  Method Carrot röstis with avo-and-pea smash Ingredients For topping:  Method Asian-style chicken meatballs Ingredients: Sauce: Method:

Prepared in under 30 minutes…. Gone in 60 seconds!

The 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds didn’t receive very good reviews but grossed more than two and a half times as much money than originally expected. I think people flocked to see Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie more than the movie itself. The original movie Gone in 60 seconds was shot in 1974. The

Frutti Tutti

It’s the season when fruit of all descriptions make their appearance. One way to enjoy fruit is to incorporate the colourful sweet seasonal produce in your food. If you haven’t tried it before, here are a few suggestions to inspire you. So if you have a papaya, pineapple, some mandarins and bananas handy, you really

Here comes Summer.

The advent of summer seems to bring to life a whole lot of emotions and feelings that have been dormant for some time. Nature heralds in the telltale signs that something exciting is about to happen. What is more pleasing than to see a leafless tree slowly start to take on a green hue as

Seasonal produce… Is it just the latest buzz word?

Making food from what’s available is similar to the latest fashion. If you go back far enough you will find its been done before. As a youngster, accompanying my mother to the green grocer, she would walk around the shop looking and buying anything that was available and fresh. One didn’t buy with a specific

Make and Bake at a later date.

Sometimes when you feel like something nice to eat, you don’t always feel like making something nice to eat. We often had this problem. After a full day of cleaning pools, we were famished. When we arrived home, my daughter, who was helping me at the time, looked at me and I looked at her.

Weekend delights, aka Second helpings.

A friend of mine has three children, two girls and a boy. They play well together but often one of the children will ask if a school friend may be allowed to come for a sleepover. The girls are especially big on sleepovers. They don’t need much excuse to arrange something like that. My friend’s

Meat alternative comfort food.

It’s hard to think of comfort food without meat. On the other hand, just coming out of covert and the high petrol price affecting the cost of living, buying good quality meat has become difficult with a dwindling food allowance. People, who like myself, suffer from high cholesterol, and are advised to cut out red

Avo…. Take One.

As promised, here are the first four avo ideas for you to try. Enjoy! Not-your-average avo on toast Ingredients: Avo hummus: 1 can (400g) chickpeas, rinsed, drained and skins removed  ¼ cup (60ml) tahini 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped  3 Tbsp (45ml) lemon juice ½ cup (125ml) parsley leaves ½ cup (125ml) basil (stems removed) 1 ripe and ready avocado, diced 2 Tbsp (30ml) olive oil 

Tomato

In our old family home, the kitchen window sill was always covered with a row of saucers containing blemished and half rotten tomatoes in various degrees of dehydration. My gran would squash them with a fork and then leave them in the sun to dry out. When dry, the tomatoes would be thrown out the