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How To Make Spicy Roast Chilli Oil – Easy Recipe
Love chilli? Here's your new addiction!
Making aromatic flavoured oils is as easy as pie. Really. It costs less and tastes better than commercial varieties, it's fun and rewarding to make, plus you'll have some...
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How To Make Perfect Carrot Cake
Everyone needs a good carrot cake in their baking repertoire, and this is mine. I inherited the recipe from my mom Adele and have been making it for more than 30 years; heaven knows...
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Cape Chicken and Potato Curry
A random conversation on Facebook recently - about the differences between Cape Malay and Indian curries - ignited a massive craving for an old-fashioned Cape chicken curry. Yeah, I'm cheap like that - everything...
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A Heritage of Preservation: La Motte Estate’s Culture of Winelands Cuisine
It's no secret that I have an ongoing love affair with everything La Motte Wine Estate does. The only reason why I don't write about it more often, is that I'll then become an...
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How To Make Meatloaf with Sticky Glaze
Meatloaf is such a sturdy, comforting thing. The name says it all doesn't it?
No nasty surprises lurking there: just meat, minced, baked in a loaf shape. Simple, done.
It's also a sure-fire way to make...
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Chicken Burger with Bacon, Avo and Blue Cheese Cream
Everyone has their favourite burger and since two days ago, this is mine. Make it as spicy or mild as you like, and go wild with the toppings.
My preferred version is chicken burger-with-everything.
This truly...
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How to Make Perfect Baked Spiced Quinces
Quince trees were a dime a dozen in the backyards of the little Freestate dorp I grew up in, except ours, for some reason. My mom had a sizeable backyard orchard with apricots, plums,...
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How to Make Perfect Slow-roasted Shoulder of Lamb
The first step to making a meltingly tender, fall-off-the-bone lamb shoulder is obvious: find a decent butcher, who won't sell you feedlot lamb. This recipe relies on minimal seasoning and precious little effort from...
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