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Celebrating life with food, wine, friends & happiness! Writer, cook and blogger. Author of four cookbooks. Passionately South African, proudly Capetonian.
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How to Make Pork and Apricot Curry

This recipe is Vindaloo-ish, but altogether milder, fruitier and sweeter while retaining the tang of the original pork vindaloo recipe. Coconut cream, tomatoes and apricots give this easy pork curry a deliciously creamy, fruity, sweet...

How to Make Tamatiebredie

You can't style a photo of tamatiebredie, and you shouldn't. Why? Because it is bredie. The wonder of Bredie is not about how it looks, but about how it tastes. And about how it makes you...

Persiana Lamb Keftas with Jewelled Couscous

Keftas, koftas...just another name for deliciously fragrant, mildly spiced lamb meatballs beloved throughout the Levant. The recipe below was adapted from the one in Sabrina Ghayour's Persiana cookbook, and it was made by my teenage...

How to Make Masala Steak Gatsby – the King of Cape Town Takeaways

You can't say you've been to Cape Town good and proper unless you've had a masala steak Gatsby from the heart Cape Town. Forget your fancy sunset cocktails at your glamorous hotels and your...

Fiery Harissa Paste for Moroccan Cooking

I first learnt to make this version of hot-hot-hot harissa paste many moons ago, when I was cook/presenter of a TV cookery series. Our guest for one episode whipped up some harissa and chermoula...

Persiana Butternut with Feta, Pesto and Pomegranate Rubies

I was sent a copy of Sabrina Ghayour's fabulous cookbook Persiana by my dear friend Karien all the way from Scotland - what a lucky girl I am! - and needless to say, my...

Ras el Hanout: Essential, Exotic Spice Blend for Persian Cooking #Persiana

If, like me, you're an acolyte of Persian cook and writer Sabrina Ghayour and the intoxicating Middle-Eastern recipes in her new cookbook Persiana, you'll be needing some Moroccan ras el hanout spice blend sooner...

Tuna Ceviche with Ginger, Lime and Chilli

Ceviche is a dish of South American origin, whereby spanking fresh fish straight from the ocean is bathed in citrus - mostly lime - juices to lightly 'cook' it. The lavish addition of finely...

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