Jelly has always meant love to me. Whenever someone close to me has been sick, I respond almost instinctively with a bowl of jelly. Raspberry jelly is my favourite. So it is invariably raspberry. My friend’s little boy is sick and so today I will make him some raspberry jelly to soothe the throat and […]
It’s no secret I’ve always been my grandpappy’s child. We were cut from the same cloth him and I. Dreamy and contemplative, often lost to our thoughts. And with a mom working the occasional evening shift, I was often fobbed off on her folks, my maternal grandparents. Without fail, it was my Papa who tucked […]
I recently went trawling at my local charity shops for second hand books, and was fortunate enough to chance upon a book bundle of five cookbooks for sale for R50 (that’s about two pounds in foreign exchange). Amongst my treasure find for the day were Open Rhodes Around Britain by Gary Rhodes, Canteen Cuisine by […]
Palegg (n.) Norwegian for anything and everything you can put on a slice of bread. I have to say, I’m a big fan of the ‘sarmie’ (or sandwich). Some of my All Time Cravings include pastrami and pickles on rye, or a simple but classic toasted cheese and tomato on the braai, or a fresh baguette […]
Now, as I’ve often written of my darling Nana in the past, if there were one saying that sums her up in the kitchen, ‘Waste not, want not!’ would have to be it! Into the smallest of tupperwares go each spoonful of gravy. Expiration dates be damned… Once cleaning out her pantry I stumbled on […]