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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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…
