Christmas eve dinner
Last year we spent Christmas with my in-laws up in Pretoria. I offered to cook us a Christmas eve dinner at Grandpa Joe’s house. I decided to go all out –...
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Do unto others!
What do (did) we, as employees, expect from our employers? For those of us luckily enough to be able to afford a housekeeper, maid, char, nanny, cleaner, helper or...
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Caramelised baby onion, rosa tomato and lentil salad
I have never been a natural salad eater. I have had to work hard at becoming one. Some of the keys to my enjoying a salad are that they need to have more than just...
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Chicken Piccata
This is not a new recipe. I blogged about it about three years ago first but I have so many new followers now and it is such a winner of a recipe I felt I just had to...
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Grilled kingklip recipe with Mediterranean vegetable
I was craving grilled fish yesterday and spotted some lovely fresh Kingklip. I had my nieces coming over for a quick lunch before their extra maths class so I thought...
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Thai salad parcels
It must be at least 20 years since I first discovered Thai salad parcels at Wang Thai. Our family quickly made up their own version of the dish and have been making it...
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Sensible satisfying snacks
I love to snack. I need to snack. I’m not a carrots or apple kind of snacker either, so now that I am trying to be all low-fat, low-carb its making it pretty hard...
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Cauliflower wraps with cheesy bean mash and salad
I’m on a health kick and will be till I shed these 4kgs which sneaked up on me. I like eating too much to restrict myself to small portions of boring bland food....
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Thai chicken meat ball salad with zesty coriander satay dressing
I am trying to collect as many low carb, high veg, high protein recipes as I can and last week I picked up an old Food & Home magazine (September 2007) and found a...
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Chocolate fondant – and how to get it right!
Perfecting the chocolate fondant to serve effortlessly at dinner parties is far easier than you might imagine and likely to impress the most hardened food snobs. The...
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Mini crustless quiche – so quick (and almost guilt free).
Low or no carbs seem to be all I hear about these days. But I am crazy for my carbs and shudder at the idea of cutting them out. I have however discovered a few recipes...
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Creamy tuna dip
For someone who eats most things the one thing I am a bit picky with is fish. I love fish if it is fresh fresh fresh and prepared with care. If there is a hint of that...
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Express Coq au vin
I have been so busy lately, I just have not had the time to blog and I feel terrible about that. I love blogging but it certainly is time consuming. So today I decided...
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Revisiting an old favorite
I have been craving and eating a lot of fish recently, which is odd, cause I’m not the biggest fish or sea food fan. This Sunday I spent a lazy day at home doing...
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Kids love chicken schnitzel (most adults too!)
I am teaching a lesson next week for a family with 4 kids. Each child and the parents have differing dietary preferences, hence the mom calling me in to train up her...
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Thekla is a teacher and seeker, a foodie and a yogi.
Offering customized training in cookery and yoga, she aims at making your life healthier – the easy way.
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