As a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift, I decided to buy my boyfriend a Smokey Joe. He had been bemoaning the fact that we never braai in the week even though we both love a bit of char-grilled goodness, and we...
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When I was about ten years old, we visited Pennsylvania Dutch Country, the home of America’s oldest Amish settlement. It was as boring for me then as it sounds now (my Dad was going through a huge American Civil War...
What is a cream horn you may ask? Well, it’s like an ice cream cone made out of puff pastry and usually filled with sweetened cream and jam or fruit. Cream horns are the cousin of the Italian cannoli and...
If you grew up in South Africa, then you probably know and love the romany cream. Romany creams are one of my all-time favourite teatime treats – they are crunchy and chocolatey and definitely give the shop-bought ones a run...
When I was in high school I befriended an American exchange student from Virginia who kindly invited me to stay with her. I spent a week doing all sorts of things you see in the movies, including and perhaps most...
I’ve always thought of rhubarb as one of those quintessentially British foods, like strawberries or pork pies. I’ve also always thought that rhubarb was only grown and sold overseas because I don’t remember ever seeing it in local supermarkets… until...
Gingerbread men are one of the classic baker’s rights-of-passage, so I was excited when Yuppiechef asked me to test-drive the gingerbread baking set from Kitchen Craft. I’ve always wanted to make a gingerbread house at Christmas but felt a bit...
Pies have to be the ultimate comfort food; what could be more warming than a steaming, savoury filling topped with crisp, buttery pastry? And in a time when everyone is feeling the pinch, making a pie can be an economical...
I was very fortunate to grow up in a large family where boys outnumbered girls 2:1. The house was always incredibly loud and generally very messy and, as a result, we employed a housekeeper called Sophy to help tame the...
The natural growing season for Cape gooseberries is rather short and sweet (see what I did there?), only running for a few months in winter. In the interests of making hay while the sun shines, I thought I’d throw together...
