Making and sharing food is one of life’s most enjoyable communal pleasures, but our busy lives dictate that at some point we’ll need to eat alone and while most of us do solo breakfast and lunch with ease, somehow dinner for one feels different. In our household of two adults and two teenagers, a business […]
There’s something undeniably magical about watching your pre-adolescent children savour every bite of their food. It makes dinner-time feel like a scene from Little House on the Prairie. As much as I love cooking however, there’s something undeniably unmagical when you’re the one responsible for filling those bottomless pits. If they’re not swinging from the […]
Do We Need To Buy To Give? One week to Christmas and there’s a word I’m sick of. Not festive or joy or even BoneyM. Those words are happy and nostalgic and invoke images of rosy-cheeked children, twinkling lights, chocolate balls – and if like me you live near the sea – slip-slops and tourists. […]
The art of gifting is one of those elusive skills I have yet to master, but I am always thoroughly impressed at how effortless other people make it seem – particularly my friends. As a vegan, and someone who is pursuing a lifestyle that does not involve generating waste or sending any matter to our […]
Lemmings. I’ve thought about this some and have concluded that at heart, we’re all really just a bunch of lemmings. Naturally I don’t mean this literally – though a few people of my acquaintance do bear an uncanny resemblance to these small thickset rodents. I’m referring of course to our love of following the pack, […]
It’s as South African as koeksisters and milk tart. At its most rudimentary, it’s just two slices of bog-standard government white bread, onion and tomato. Sandwich the lot together, butter it up on the outside and on the braai it goes. This doesn’t sound like much, but as any fan of the braai knows, magic […]
Dit is omtrent onmoontlik, nee wag dit is onmoontlik om 2 seuntjies vir 80 minute te laat stil sit tydens ‘n rugbywedstryd. Ek neem hulle glad nie kwalik nie. Ek is al 28 jaar oud en ek kry dit ook nog steeds nie reg om vir 80 minute stil te sit en kyk hoe 30 […]
It’s Heritage month and I’m entwined in a net of thoughts and memories about my culinary heritage. What were the dishes, tastes, textures and aromas that inspired me to get my family to spend close to R100 000 on sending me to a culinary school? Please note that my family is not one that owns […]
Die Augustuswinde het nog nie eers begin waai nie en toe is die somer op ons. Die skielike en welverdiende somer wat ons getref het, moes dringend ingelyf en gevier word. So hou ons toe op die voorlaaste Sondag van Augustus, eintlik nog ‘n winter-Sondag, ‘n Pesto-en-Prawnbraai. Of beter in Afrikaans bekend, ‘n Pesto-en-Garnaalbraai. Die […]
I’ve recently started a journey towards zero waste living. As in, I’m throwing out my rubbish bin and making sure that nothing I buy from now on will ever need to go into one. I love the impact that doing this is already having on my life. I can’t deny a certain smugness when I […]
