A rainy day must have..
When it’s cold and rainy outside, there is nothing like a good, old, hearty pasta to chase away those winter blues. Or for those slightly more deranged personal,...
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Moroccan Chicken
There is nothing nicer than a simple dish done to perfection Just good, honest food where what you see is what you get. Letting the flavours of the ingredients speak...
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Cheat-meal Chicks
I’m a firm believer in at least one cheat-meal per week. Occasionally two if I’m having one of “those” weeks. One cheat meal isn’t going...
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Chicken soup
It’s been such a long time since I posted a blog. It feels good. Like coming home. This week I’ve been nesting. Nesting because it’s autumn....
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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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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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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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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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My favorite soup of all time
When it is searing hot, like it is in Cape Town at the moment, soup is the last thing anyone feels like. For me however there are two exceptions; gazpacho naturally but...
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Thank you Elle Magazine!
My apologies for my long silence. My time is not really my own at the moment and as much as I would like to take pictures of the food I am cooking, it just...
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Travel musings and chicken soup
As I write this I am sitting at Istanbul airport, it’s 05h54 in the morning in South Africa. I am as well as I could be, considering we were fed breakfast at 03h45 in...
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A cliche is a cliche for a reason!
A client of mine asked me to teach her housekeeper to make, among other things, Chicken a la King. She has two small children and knows that this is a mild comfort food...
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Fussy kids sausage casserole
Today I experimented with a recipe for fussy kids. A client of mine has two kids who aren’t big veggie eaters and we are trying various recipes with somewhat...
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Moroccan chicken, lime pickle and green olive tagine
A client has asked me to teach her housekeeper to cook with her tagine. Now I am embarrassed to say that I have cooked many tagines, but not in an actual tagine....
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Marinated chicken salad
This is a salad I have making for many years and it has been modified and adapted often to suit my tastes and fridge stock. But the recipe below pretty much is what I...
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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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