The Cheesiest Cauliflower Cheese Recipes Cauliflower cheese has always been a family favourite, not just because it tastes great, but because it’s also quick, easy and relatively inexpensive to make. The simplest version involves boiling or steaming the cauliflower; making and pouring over a cheese sauce; topping with grated cheese or breadcrumbs; and baking in…
Having grown up in a home where my British-South African grandmother was queen of the kitchen, meatballs were just an ordinary dish – tasty, but ordinary. And they weren’t on the menu very often. I don’t cook them often either, unless they are part of a themed dish of some sort, in this instance Thai,…
Eating a low-fat diet that is high in carbohydrates will not prevent you from having a heart attack. In fact you are less likely to suffer from heart disease if you eat lots of fat – provided it is the right type of fat. This is the gospel of a team of South Africans headed…
My personal tradition is to spend Christmas in the kitchen … it seems. This was Christmas 2011 and not much has changed. The Joys of Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere Christmas is a special time; there’s no getting away from this. But as one gets older, for many it loses it’s magic. And I have…
Indian Ice-Cream Called Kulfi It was in 1976 that I was first introduced to Madhur Jaffrey – and I loved her from the start. An Indian from India, she had recently had her first cookbook published, and I had the good fortune to get it to review. Needless to say, this amazing author and Indian…
A Meat-Eating Vegetarian Cooking Venison I have to confess that I’m one of those people who could become a vegetarian – just as long as I get to eat biltong (something like what Americans call jerky) now and then. I also confess that I have brainwashed myself to believe that meat comes from a supermarket!…