Food and 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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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…
