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The best bobotie ever!
The best bobotie ever...that I made myself.
Of course many other boboties exist, many of them are spectacularly good, but this recipe comes from my sister-in-law and it's truly the best I've ever made. Yet.
Because...
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Raisin bread toast with honey figs and ricotta
This simple and easy dish combines some of my favourite ingredients in most delectable way. I LOVE ricotta and am always looking for new ways to use it. For this, you'll need to use...
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Top 10 South African hangover cures – post-election day
Today is National Voting Day, which means tomorrow is National Hangover Day. In the interests of public service and good health, I have done some research and came up with the following top 10...
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How to Make Viskopsop: a Feast for the Famished
I first encountered viskopsop, that poor man's staple during the leanest and meanest of times, in the Constantia home of a posh family fallen on hard times. That they were all barking mad might...
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Pickled fish for Easter: a recipe and Thando’s Number One Tip
Having lived in Cape Town for 20 years now, I still wonder why this beautiful city with her very colourful past lacks a unique, celebrated seafood dish to call her very own. We do...
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Old-fashioned Potroast Chicken, Freestate Style
My mother did a lot of things remarkably well, but cooking chicken wasn't one of them. She had one legendary roast chicken recipe (which I wrote about in Anna Trapido's book Hunger for Freedom),...
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Crispy Chicken Nori Bites – low carb snack
Whenever I run out of ideas of what to do with chicken, I turn to recipes from the Orient. This quick and easy dish comes from the book Yoshoku: Contemporary Japanese by Australian chef and writer...
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How To Make Lamb Soutribbetjie
Lamb ribs are an immensely fatty cut of meat, but properly prepared as with the recipe below, delivers a combination of all that is great about lamb: moist tenderness from the fat and the...
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