Easy crab chilli and rocket pasta
Isn’t it funny how we humans insist of describing various human characteristics by reference to animals? Take for example: as brave as a lion; as quiet as a mouse; as mad as a badger; as bald as a...
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We’re funny creatures, human beings. We eat our sleekly packaged organic granola for breakfast; we spend our days at our computers talking on the Interwebs to invisible folks on the other side of the...
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My tax law lecturer at university used to say: ”There are only two certainties in this life: death and taxes” – but I beg to differ. There is also the certainty that at any given moment on any given...
View ArticlePattypan squash pasta with capers, chilli and Parmesan
The Afrikaans language, my mother tongue, is nothing if not creative in its descriptions – and sometimes far more so than English. Think, for example, of: trapsuutjies (literally “walk quietly”) = a...
View ArticleSpaghetti with chorizo meatballs and homemade tomato sauce
There are those people who say that you shouldn’t mess with classics. People who start hyperventilating with indignation when you suggest putting anything on a pizza other than the ingredients that a...
View ArticleBeetroot risotto with goat’s cheese and pine-nuts
With touching faith in the reliability of our own senses, we humans are fond of saying “I’ll believe it when I see it with my own two eyes”. But as anybody who has spent 10 minutes in a criminal court...
View ArticleSpaghetti squash, feta and chilli risotto
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon So on Saturday 9 February I was planning to have quadrilogie de canard for lunch at LeVaffiue, Les Get in the French...
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Some people have an uncanny knack for being permanently in fashion. They seem to have been born with an innate sense of trends and always seem to be one step ahead of the fashion pack, unveiling hot...
View ArticleCreamy broccoli, semi-dried tomato and chicken pasta
Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it. Jack London Ah, inspiration, that most...
View ArticleBeef, broccoli and udon noodle stir fry from “The Japanese Larder” by Luiz Hara
When I was six months old, my parents took a trip to Japan. I was my mom’s first child, but my dad’s fifth – so she was understandably worried about leaving me behind whereas he had learnt that babies...
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