Favourite Recipes
We love eating! If life is a journey, what better way to enjoy the ride than with good "padkos!"(road food). Here are some of our favourite recipes and food ideas... Some are not necessary the most healthiest, but they are the "lekkerest!" 🤣
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Taco Tuesdays – DIY taco shells
Why shouldn’t you trust tacos? They always spill the beans! 😝 Every random Tuesday (or Wednesday), it’s Taco Tuesday at our house! We got this recipe from Robert while standing in the queue…
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Spicy Cinnamon Nuts
What sound does a nut make when it sneezes? Cashew! I have made these nuts a few times since Marisa’s demonstration. It’s easy and delicious! Ingredients: 2 egg whites1kg raw nuts (I like…
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Banana Crumpets
Asante sana, squash banana! Have some overripe bananas? Here’s an easy crumpet recipe which the kids love! What you need: 2 very ripe mashed bananas3/4 cup brown sugar3 eggs1 cup milk2 tablespoons butter,…
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Cheese and Bacon Potato Soup
If you’re looking for comfort food on a cold day, this is it! What do you call a husband who is good at making soup? Souper-man! We make this soup once or twice…
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How to make Kombucha
“The road to health is paved with good intestines.” SA Rodgers Kombucha is a fermented, slightly fizzy drink made when SCOBY is left in a mixture made from tea, sugar and water. SCOBY…
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Celebrating Dakkie’s Birthday with Good Food and Great People
It’s quite lucky when your birthday is on a weekend, but especially lucky when your birthday is on an extra long long weekend! This weekend we celebrated Carol’s birthday with a dinner party,…
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Broccoli, Cauliflower and Condensed Milk Salad
I have put this salad on my blog before, but I have adjusted it slightly. This salad is so delicious! It’s actually a pudding in disguise. Ingredients: Raw Broccoli – broken into smaller…
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Yummy Crustless Pumpkin Pie
What do you call a fat pumpkin? A plumpkin. This is my sister’s pumpkin pie recipe. It’s delicious! Crustless Pumpkin Pieyummy side dish for a braai 125g butter 🧈 (room temperature)150g (200ml) sugar3…
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Best Pudding when Camping
A soft, roasted marshmallow dipped in grated chocolate squashed between 2 Marie Biscuits… S’mores! This pudding is yum for the kids and adults…And it’s part of the camping experience. If you are not…
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Most Delicious Cowboy Salad
This is one of my favourite salads! It comes out a bit differently every time, depending on what’s available….and depending which ingredients I remember or forget to put in. So I decided to…
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Superhero Popcorn
Warning: This popcorn is addictive! Kids as well as adults enjoy eating this snack! For Leo’s party on Saturday I only made superhero popcorn for the kids. Next time I will have to…
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Best Rice Krispie Treat Recipe
You are what you eat… So eat something sweet! I was craving these treats! So I made them “for the kids.” Leo and Natey helped me count the Marshmallows to put in the…
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Geetha’s Meatballs in Tomato Chutney
Geetha came to show us how to make her famous meatballs in tomato chutney dish. She also showed us how to make our own rotis… With the rotis I still need a lot…
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Let’s Eat Local
Where does your food come from? (Before you buy it from Shoprite or Spar) What are the ingredients of the sauce you’re eating? Do you know what E270 and E260 are!? I thought…
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Emoji Cake 😘 (moist chocolate cake with cream cheese icing in the shape of an emoji)
This moist chocolate cake with cream cheese icing is sooo delicious! It was Leo’s idea to bake a “kissy face” cake for his great-grandmother’s birthday… It’s nice and easy and there are many…
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Chocolate Blaze Sponge Cake
We had a blazing good time celebrating Leo’s birthday this year. I used Daleen’s chocolate cake recipe to make a “Blaze and the Monster Machines Mud cake.” It is really a yummy, fluffy…
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Lekker Butter Cookies
Peek-A-Boo here are some cookies for you! Here’s an easy cookie recipe. Similar to the one my mom used to make with us when we were kids. Ingredients: 250g butter 1 cup sugar…
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Pork Belly with Gooseberry Glaze
We made pork belly for our annual “Christmas in July” this year. The meat was soft and succulent and the crackling was very crispy. It was delicious! (And it wasn’t just me who…
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Hannes’s Tomato Soup
I haven’t put anything on this blog for a while… I was a little scared off by weird “outlook” followers. But this tomato soup is yummy! And easy to make. Ingredients: Thick (1cm)…
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Nobis’s Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup
The day before her baby was born Nobis came to show me how to make her yummy chicken and sweetcorn soup. It’s a recipe I don’t want to forget… Here’s what goes in…
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Healthier Rusks
I’m excited because my parents are driving up to visit this weekend. So in preparation I’ve been baking a bit to have some snacks and treats in the house. I like these rusks…
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Jane’s Pancake Recipe
“If I tell you I love you, will you make me pancakes?” I always remember my mom’s pancakes on a rainy day….yummy!😊And they are delicious when the sun is shining too! Here’s the…
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Homemade Fudge
So we finally got Jeff to make his famous fudge for us. I think the last time he made this was at least 15 years ago! But he still looks like he’s in…
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Meringue with Caramel Yoghurt Topping
This is sort of a combination of meringue and a basic pavlova. It’s best to make these the day before you intend on serving them. You need: (To make 6 big meringues) 4…
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Jane’s Chocolate Cake Recipe
I eat cake because it’s somebody’s birthday somewhere.” This is one of the sweet things I remember my mom baking for almost every birthday or event. I think she originally got the recipe…
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Easy and Delicious Oxtail Recipe
One day it was still summer and the next day….bam…the cold was upon us and it’s winter. Well, that’s what it felt like to me! Although I’m more a summer type of person,…
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Biltong Paté
“Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la…” I can’t believe it’s December and Christmas time again! It’s really hot and dry here in the Free…
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Homemade Dulce de Leche
Dulce de leche which translates to “sweet of milk” is a heavenly treat. (Or an evil temptation depending on which way you look at it.) We ate a lot of this delight when…
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Make Stampmielies for Your Next Braai
Now that we’re back in sunny South Africa we’ve had a few lekker braais already, including a leg of lamb spit-braai with the family on Heritage Day.(Braai Day) This samp tart or stampmielie-tert/gereg…
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Watermelon Salad 2015
Happy 2015 to you all! 😄 Hopefully all the chocolates, sweets and festive season leftovers are now finished and you have formulated your healthy eating and exercise plans to start the new year…
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Vietnamese Rice Wraps
A few if us went to an asian cooking class presented by Chef Lauren. She taught us how to make sweet-chilli sauce, bread dough, dim sums and these Vietnamese wraps. We also…
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Sweet Potato Bake
This sweet potato bake is really delicious and difficult to get wrong. It’s a tasty side dish to make when having people over for a braai. It’s made in the oven so…
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Sweet Potato Bake
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Chocolate Biscuit Squares
“You’re so sweet you’re going to give me tooth cavities!”-unknown These are the chocolate squares you usually find in school tuck-shops and at cake sales. Our cafeteria at varsity also sold them. If…
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Whiskey Breakfast Oats
This is an easy breakfast to make, especially if you have to make a quick breakfast for a lot of people…and the whiskey just gives it that extra smoothness and flavour. Our friend,…
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Homemade Ginger Beer
“Listen to your elder’s advice. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.” This recipe is marc’s great gran, Ouma Carol’s, ginger beer recipe. It might…
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Chocolate Stout Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” It’s difficult to be sad when you are eating a delicious piece of chocolate cake- especially if it’s a piece of chocolate mustache cake with…
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Easy Bran Rusk recipe
Rusks are essentially double-baked bread dough. The afrikaans word for rusk is beskuit which, according to the book,”Geskiedenis van Boerekos”, comes from the french word meaning “twice baked.” South African boere tannies have…
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Homemade Pina Colada Cocktails
If you like Pina coladas and getting caught in the rain… Marc called it “songception.” Someone must have intentionally played that Pina colada song to make us think it was our own idea…
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Pineapple Beer
We’ve been wanting to make pineapple beer for a while now so when Thandi, our cleaning manager, said she regularly makes home-brews for her husband we took the opportunity and got her to…
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Watermelon Salad
Happy 2015 to you all! 😄 Hopefully all the chocolates, sweets and festive season leftovers are now finished and you have formulated your healthy eating and exercise plans to start the new year…
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That’s a wrap! – A Healthy Egg Wrap
So, you’ve probably heard of the Tim Noakes Diet and “banting.” It seems like the latest dieting craze but apparently this way of eating was prescribed for weight loss by medical professionals for…
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Ginger Honey Mint and Lemon Health Tea
Legend has it that the first person to make tea was the Chinese Emperor Shen Nong in 2737 BC. Apparently, while he was boiling water in the shade of a tree, a gentle…
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Chocolate brownie Caramel Peppermint-crisp Mousse Delight
This Chocolate brownie Caramel Peppermint-crisp Mousse Delight is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I’m wondering if we should rather call it the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious tart!?? It has a chocolate brownie base, with a middle caramel layer and a…
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Jane’s Crunchies (Oats Cookies)
So I know Spring is around the corner (for the Southern Hemisphere) and we all want to start losing some winter bulge. I’ve been leading you and mostly myself into temptation with the…
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BarOne Peanut butter Cookies
If you watch “How I met your Mother”, these are a variation of the “sumbitch cookies” that “the mother” offers Lilly on the train when they meet for the first time. Anyway, these…
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Knoffel Bekerbrood (garlic bread in a mug)
This is just a fun and different way to serve bread. We had this bekerbrood as well as broccoli-condensed milk salad with steaks which we braaied. What you need: Bread dough (buy from…
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Lemon Meringue Pie
This is our neighbour, Sharon’s, meringue recipe. It is really very yummy! Warning: to be eaten in moderation and as part of a well-balanced diet and regular exercise plan. (I have to put…
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Pete’s Peanut Butter Bomb smoothies
Pete made us delicious smoothies! This is one of his famous healthy smoothie recipes known as the “Pete”nut-butter bomb. Ingredients: vary ingredients according to your preferences 200g yoghurt 1 banana 1 BIG scoop…
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Carol’s Carrot Cake
This cake is absolutely delicious! And carrots are good for you. 😉 What you will need: For the Cake: 1 and 1/4 cups sunflower oil 2 cups sugar 2 cups cake flour 2…
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Easiest way to poach an egg
What’s the easiest way to make a poached egg? We thought it would be the new egg poacher we bought… But actually the trick Lionel saw on Facebook works the best. You have…
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No-bake Cheese cake
With our guesthouse now up and running, Marc has discovered a new love for baking. (He bakes and I eat it all- not too good for weight loss!). Yesterday he made a really…
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Cheesy Veggie Bake with Cream & Onion soup
A very yummy way to eat your vegetables! And we can always do with more vegetables. This is probably not thee most healthiest way to get your veggies in…but it is definitely one…
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Blue Cheese Pasta
This is one of our favourite pastas! It’s so flavourful and also quick and easy to make. You will need: 500g Fettuccini 250g bacon (chopped) 250ml fresh cream (or long life cream) Blue…
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Beer & Sweetcorn Bread
This is such an easy bread to make! Ingredients: 500g self raising flour 1 tin sweetcorn 1 can/bottle (340ml) beer Mix ingredients together. Add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar…
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Liver Paté – a healthy hors d’oeuvre
Looking for a healthy hors d’oeuvre which is high in protein? Or just a tasty starter other than chips and dip? How about liver paté served with savoury biscuits, poppadoms or melba toast?…
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Fourie Waldorf Salad – An Extra-Ordinary Salad
My sister and her husband introduced me to this salad on Christmas eve. It’s not your ordinary salad and makes an interesting and delicious addition to a salad spread. Waldorf salad was apparently…
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Jane’s Easy Tuna Mould
Summer is in full blast here in South Africa and with most people having “eating healthy” as part of their New Year’s Resolutions, here’s an easy-to-make, healthy tuna snack to impress your guests.…
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South African Chakalaka Boerewors Rolls
When we were in South America this is one South African food we really craved: Boerewors rolls! We had chori-pan which is similar but not quite the same. So one of the first…
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Geetha’s Mint-Peanut Chutney (Paté)
Geetha definately makes the best indian food! She spoilt us by bringing supper last night: curry, rotis, meatballs and this mint chutney with papadums for starters. Geetha gave us a cooking lesson the…
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Lionel’s Cream Curry
This is one of the first meals Marc made for me. It’s his dad’s recipe! I must say I was quite impressed! Since then Cream Curry Tortillas is one of our favourite meals.…
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Healthy Butternut Soup
This is my favourite soup to make in winter. It contains vegetables which are healthy and garlic, ginger and curry powder to keep germs (and maybe some people) away… This recipe makes about…
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Chicken & Bacon Wraps
I often wonder what I can make for supper. I sometimes forget about them but wraps are a good idea. My friend, Bianca, made wraps for us when they invited us over last…
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South African Ice Cream Pudding
My mom makes this ice-cream pudding when we go visit. It is impossible to resist! This is a simple and absolutely delicious pudding especially for someone with a sweet tooth. It sounds like…
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Mauritian Granadilla Shooters
We discovered a local restaurant in Mauritius with a very smooth waiter who, after much pleading on our part, revealed his secret “Granadilla Shooter” recipe to us. We’ve made it a few times…
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Melktertjies (Milktart shooters)
These “melktertjie” shooters are too delicious! For part of our dessert at our wedding we had these. We served the drink in a chocolate shooter glass. So when you have had enough shots…
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Honey-Drizzled Chicken Breasts
Needed: Frying pan, 2 tablespoons butter, garlic salt, Cayenne pepper, Meat tenderizer, 4 chicken breasts, honey Turn stove to medium heat and allow plate to reach stable temperature before starting. Melt butter. Place…
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Channa Masala
I tasted this for the 1st time while traveling in India. I was amazed at how flavourful their vegetarian dishes are! Needed: Pot, Olive oil, 1 Onion, 3 chopped tomatoes, 2 cans chopped…
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Very Easy Chicken Pie
Need: Stove, Oven, Pot, oven-safe glass dish/tray Ingredients: Ready-made Puff Pastry 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 egg yoke 1 punnet chopped chicken breasts 250mls cream or plain yoghurt (healthier alternative) 1 Onion Knorr’s…
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Carol’s Easy Guocamole
Serves 2 really hungry people or 4 not so hungry people Needed: Square glass container ( or someting similar ) 1 can red kidney beans 1 onion Tabasco sauce 4 medium Avocados Crushed…
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Quick Paleo Fudge
This fudge is quite addictive and real easy to make. It contains no bad refined sugar. We bought the ingredients at Dischem for about R170 for everything and could make 3 batches of…
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Shebeen Nachos
Last night we were really hungry and craving something yummy fast. So we made really easy and basic “nachos”. Marcus named it Shebeen Nachos. Here’s how we did it: Put oven on grill.…
