Featured Easy Recipes, Tried and Tested For You
Traditional Pot Roast Recipe
Pot Roast has got to be the ultimate winter food next to slow cooker oxtail stew a good curry or a tomato bredie. It is one of those...
Durban Style Lamb Curry
For me, a great Durban lamb curry is spicy, has some chili heat, has beautiful soft potatoes, fall apart meat and a thick luscious gravy....
Fettuccine/Spaghetti meatballs
Updated June 2021: Every so often I like to revisit an old favorite and classic Italian recipe that is my absolute favorite, and every...
Traditional Pot Roast Recipe
Pot Roast has got to be the ultimate winter food next to slow cooker oxtail stew a good curry or a tomato bredie. It is one of those...
Durban Style Lamb Curry
For me, a great Durban lamb curry is spicy, has some chili heat, has beautiful soft potatoes, fall apart meat and a thick luscious gravy....
Fettuccine/Spaghetti meatballs
Updated June 2021: Every so often I like to revisit an old favorite and classic Italian recipe that is my absolute favorite, and every...
Eggs in hell 🙂
We recently visited a restaurant that we have been driving past for a few years, Cafe Dolci, and a few weekends ago we decided to stop in for breakfast. I had my usual eggs, bacon, mushrooms etc but my partner loves a little heat and saw "eggs in hell" on the menu....
Chicken and Mushroom Pie
We are big fans of home made pies and there are many recipes on this website like the chicken, ham and leek pie recipe. I was watching one of Jamie Olivers 30 minute meals programs and the recipe really looked amazing so gave it a try. Well, it was very delicious and...
Easy lamb curry
A good lamb curry recipe is a must have for winter and this one is very easy, tastes amazing and will have you returning to the pot more than once. I am not mad for very hot curries but if you like some heat in yours, just increase the chili powder amount. You can...
Chicken Cashew Nut
Most of us who love Chinese or Asian style food will have ordered chicken cashew nut many times. We really love this chicken cashew nut recipe, it has a great amount of sauce and the chicken is really moist inside from being covered in corn flour (maizena) before...
Spicy one pot eggs and tomato breakfast
We have been eating late breakfasts as part of an intermittent fasting exercise during lockdown, for fear of really packing on the pounds. Brunch is a big meal which means we havn't eaten for about 16 hours. We most often have a traditional style breakfast/brunch...
Roast stuffed butternut
This recipe was an experiment which really turned out incredibly well. I felt like a different type of vegetable dish after a 2 weeks of lockdown. We had been making stir fries, saute veggies and the always present well baked potato, and however delicious those things...
2 very easy Pasta sauces in 10 minutes
I came across a bag of frozen chicken ravioli from Mafiosi in the Bluebird shopping centre (an amazing little family run Italian restaurant and deli) and wanted to make something simple and bit special, so I decided to make 2 quick and easy pasta sauces so that we...
Tashas Hyde Park Creamy bacon and Mushrooms on Toast
Before lockdown we would go to Tasha's in Hyde Park on the weekends to have their creamy mushrooms and bacon on toast, served with poched eggs. It is such an incredibly tasty meal, we just cannot get enough of it. I didn't know until recently that each Tashas has one...
A Brilliant explanation for small children (Corona virus)
I came across this video earlier and thought it too important not to post. If you have small children, grand children or know anyone with children, let them watch this and then do it at home. This really is the best I have seen for kids.
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie
I made this chicken pie the other night and it is becoming a favourite. It really is very simple, takes about 20-30 mins of preperation and 30 mins in the oven. Don't be tempted to leave out the cream or ask what to substitute it with, it makes a huge difference and...
Pickled fish
Updated June 2021: Pickled fish is such a uniquely South African dish, if any of you are having friends or family out for the world cup, you want to make a batch of this pickled fish recipe. It keeps in the fridge for ages ready for a quick meal, is simple to make and...
Perfect gravy recipe
I have been making roast chickens lately and a good gravy is an absolute essential to round off the meal. It is the difference between a good roast and a fantastic roast. A roast it not finished without roast potatoes and this perfect roast potato recipe is the best...
Chicken and Mushroom Pie
We are big fans of home made pies and there are many recipes on this website like the chicken, ham and leek pie recipe. I was watching one of Jamie Olivers 30 minute meals programs and the recipe really looked amazing so gave it a try. Well, it was very delicious and...
Easy lamb curry
A good lamb curry recipe is a must have for winter and this one is very easy, tastes amazing and will have you returning to the pot more than once. I am not mad for very hot curries but if you like some heat in yours, just increase the chili powder amount. You can...
Chicken Cashew Nut
Most of us who love Chinese or Asian style food will have ordered chicken cashew nut many times. We really love this chicken cashew nut recipe, it has a great amount of sauce and the chicken is really moist inside from being covered in corn flour (maizena) before...
Roast stuffed butternut
This recipe was an experiment which really turned out incredibly well. I felt like a different type of vegetable dish after a 2 weeks of lockdown. We had been making stir fries, saute veggies and the always present well baked potato, and however delicious those things...
2 very easy Pasta sauces in 10 minutes
I came across a bag of frozen chicken ravioli from Mafiosi in the Bluebird shopping centre (an amazing little family run Italian restaurant and deli) and wanted to make something simple and bit special, so I decided to make 2 quick and easy pasta sauces so that we...
Tashas Hyde Park Creamy bacon and Mushrooms on Toast
Before lockdown we would go to Tasha's in Hyde Park on the weekends to have their creamy mushrooms and bacon on toast, served with poched eggs. It is such an incredibly tasty meal, we just cannot get enough of it. I didn't know until recently that each Tashas has one...
A Brilliant explanation for small children (Corona virus)
I came across this video earlier and thought it too important not to post. If you have small children, grand children or know anyone with children, let them watch this and then do it at home. This really is the best I have seen for kids.
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie
I made this chicken pie the other night and it is becoming a favourite. It really is very simple, takes about 20-30 mins of preperation and 30 mins in the oven. Don't be tempted to leave out the cream or ask what to substitute it with, it makes a huge difference and...
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