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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:

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

Fast and Furious

For many years we have lived in a society where both the husband and wife work. In the beginning it was a novelty. Mummy was offered a job and it was exciting to get the first pay packet. The extra money was used to help with the annual holiday. Families could stay in luxury hotels

Heritage Day versions of South African favourites

I’m sorry guys and dolls, I’m a bit late. Heritage Day has come and gone. For all of you in other countries, it actually doesn’t matter, you wouldn’t have celebrated Heritage Day anyway. What I do know is that there is a large following of South African food around the world. So, the names of

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.