Recipes

Grilled ruby grapefruit with yoghurt and honey

Effort:  (very little) Expense: el cheapo Kitchen fire potential: medium Apparently, a hybrid of the pomelo and orange, a grapefruit was named so because they...

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Gooey vegetable and feta pizza with caramelised onions

I was tasked with the challenge of popping into a Caltex Freshstop to find all the ingredients that I needed to make a delicious meal....

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BBQ Springbok loin & roasted sweet potato

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Father's day is coming up and this would be a great treat to do, and compared to the cost of...

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Asian-inspired burger

I was recently tasked with coming up with a burger based on limited but conventional burger-related ingredients: beef, buns, gherkins, iceberg lettuce, tomato and onion....

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Banoffee Trifle

  Last week I enjoyed sharing the world's greatest banoffee milkshake with you here. This week, it's taking roughly the same ingredients, with one or...

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Belly-warming smoked paprika butternut soup

Effort:  Easy Expense: The wine and black garlic might be a bit pricey, the rest is cheapy cheap Kitchen fire potential: Virtually none Serves: 6...

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Roasted tomato and curry soup

Effort:  There's a bit of chopping involved, so its a leeetle schleppy but worth it Expense: Won't break the bank Kitchen fire potential: There'll be...

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Beetroot and dill salt

Rock or flaky salt in a bag is pretty cheap in the shops. And it's handy for all kinds of things, like covering your wooden...

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Banoffee Milkshakes with awesome chocolate sauce

For Valentine's day, the (long-suffering) boyfriend, partner-in-crime and co-pet parent of all our beasties plus two goldfish, prepared the most wonderful meal. With it at...

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Courgette & butter bean soup

This is really easy, cheap and filling. I added the broccolini for a fancy shmancy garnish but it can easily do without. You can serve...

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Autumn Rainbow Salad with Lemon Basil Dressing

I saw rainbow carrots at the shops last week and was overcome with a compulsion to have them, as I loved the idea of cooking...

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Persimmon, plum, camembert & rocket salad

Every once in a while, I see an ingredient that I'm completely unfamiliar with. I'd like to use this platform to share my intrepid (or...

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Watermelon Quencher

Summer is here and with it comes a rainbow bounty of seasonal fruit. One of my favourites being that luscious vermillion globe, heavy with saccharine...

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Chef Gerard’s decadent prawn & chilli pasta

A while back I had the good fortune of attending a phenomenal chef's table experience at the Fig Tree restaurant at Simbithi in Ballito. This...

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Cheat’s poached egg with smoked trout and rosemary mushrooms

I do love to indulge in a good poached egg but as much as I've tried, and I have tried so many times using all...

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Creamy mushroom & leek tagliatelle pasta

Effort:  (quick and simple) Expense: cheap-ish (requires decent wine) Kitchen fire potential: low Serves: 2 If you are on diet or trying to lose some...

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Lazy beef pie with suet crust

I have been participating in a weekly challenge hosted by the PnP Fresh Living Magazine called Freshly Blogged. Every Friday they email us a list...

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Salmon ceviche

Ceviche, pronounced seh-vee-tcheh, is a really fresh, citrus-marinated sort-of raw fish salad. It originates from the coastlines of South America, more specifically Peru, and it's starting...

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Carmelised pear and Amarula ice cream, chocolate pots with Amarula custard

That has to be the longest title ever for this blog so far. This recipe was submitted for the Freshly Blogged challenge. The ingredients that...

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The Art of Plating

This is the 8th submission for the PnP Freshly Blogged challenge. We were tasked with making a dish from the following items: Sedgwick's Old Brown...

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