Recipe For Sachertorte
A long time ago my Mom and Dad went to Austria on holiday and came back with a sugar free sachertorte for me in a wooden box. I can clearly remember that first wooden box more than I could remember … more ♥
Tag Archives: make it sweet
Recipe For Malted Chocolate Tart
When I worked at The Hard Rock Café I would end my shift my a mug of hot milk, flavoured with Horlicks. During the week we worked until midnight at the earliest and some weekends we would be at work at breakfast … more ♥
Recipe For Trail Mix Rusks
These have to be the best rusks I have ever made. They combine my trail mix with a standard rusk recipe and they provide me with a feeling of being healthy with every bite. I find rusks so easy to make, … more ♥
Recipe For Tart Au Citron | Lemon Tart
I have wanted to make a tart au citron (lemon tart) for quite some time, as I love the way it sounds. And after making this lemon tart I love the way it tastes. It is packed full of lemon flavour … more ♥
Recipe For Pinotage Wine Tart
Pinotage is a unique South African wine, best drunk slightly chilled. It is an easy wine to make, according to the wine makers I speak to. Considered a masculine wine, pinot noir (the mother) will show in grapes grown in … more ♥
Recipe For Peanut Butter And Chocolate Rusks
The other morning we woke up to discover that the water had been turned off at home due to some work that the water department was doing on the pipes down the road. Thankfully I had water in the upstairs … more ♥
Recipe For Pan Fried Chicken Livers
Is our ability to handle our finances indicative of how we conduct our lives? And can we be expected to handle our finances positively when so many countries are in debt or facing bankruptcy? The bottom line has to be spend what … more ♥
Recipe For Cari Ga | Chicken Curry With Sweet Potatoes
When James was younger he showed very little interest in food, other than eating it. One holiday we encouraged the boys to choose a vegetable to eat with the meals I was preparing and the vote went to sweet potatoes. … more ♥
Recipe For Yoghurt Pastry
I love the satisfaction of making my own pastry at home, especially when it ends up crisp and short and perfect. I decided to develop a pastry that makes use of yoghurt instead of the traditional sour cream as I often … more ♥
Recipe For Sourdough Whole Wheat Seed Bread
Artisinal bread is a labour of love. You have to have patience, but the reward is great! I make use of a sourdough starter which provides bacterial (in the good sense) action on the starch and proteins in my bread … more ♥
Recipe For Ice Tea Using Roooibos
Summer is all but over but that does not mean I need to stop drinking ice tea. It is refreshing and the fact that I use rooibos tea, means that it is healthy as well. I was recently invited to … more ♥
Recipe For Apricot Ice Cream
It is always good to have your ego boosted by wonderful compliments. From when I started blogging, I looked at myself as offering great recipes that work. I have never looked at myself as taking good photographs. Because of this, … more ♥
Recipe For Sucrose Free Nougat
Trying to create sucrose free candy / sweets is not an easy feat as fructose works in a completely different way to sucrose. Fructose is a monosaccharide which means it is made up of a single unit. Sucrose is a … more ♥
Recipe For Olive Oil Ice Cream
Willow Creek Olive Estate recently extended their range of flavoured olive oils and they sent me a bottle of the Persian Lime Olive Oil to try out. This award winning olive oil is so heady with lime that I am absolutely … more ♥
Recipe For Cinnamon And Coffee Soufflés
I spent three months developing this recipe for cinnamon and coffee soufflés due to a whole lot of factors. The first time I made them, the coffee taste was so overpowering that even I could not enjoy them, and I … more ♥
Recipe For Lemon Syrup Pudding
When I asked Alida which recipe she considers her favourite in her new recipe book Cook From The Heart she told me that she had three favourites. These are her recipes for gnocchi with Gorgonzola cream (page 77), cheese stuffed arancini (page 222) … more ♥
Recipe For Chocolate Buns
20 years ago I had a very open ‘crush’ on one of the racing drivers. He was cute and shy and flirted with me whenever he could. Dave used to call him my hottie and for years that is how … more ♥
Recipe For Sweet Potato Country Rolls
Part of my experience at the Bread Making Day hosted by Taste Glacier was learning how to shape rolls. I usually make round or oblong rolls, or I use my mini loaf pan to make mini bread loaves. I must say … more ♥