Vietnamese Spring Rolls
Today I feeling totally all over the place. I have painters all over my house, I have a million things to do and none of them related to each other, the weather...
Read MoreToday I feeling totally all over the place. I have painters all over my house, I have a million things to do and none of them related to each other, the weather...
Read MoreThis afternoon I baked cupcakes with the housekeeper of a friend of mine. Her daughter has a tea party at school tomorrow and she needed to take cup cakes for the...
Read MoreI haven’t been grocery shopping for my own house in ages. We got home late and felt like something quick but still healthy. So I whipped up a fabulous quick fix...
Read MoreI got back yesterday from a three day private cooking job out on a farm with no cell reception. To my delight I found out that the new edition of Crush! online had been...
Read MoreToday I’m feeling pretty fricken exhausted. I have all kinds of good reasons like having worked a few very looong days last week, house guests,...
Read MoreCrème caramel is one of my mom’s staple special treat desserts. Most things my mom makes from scratch but this is one dish she has always relied on the good...
Read MoreLast week the Pick n Pay in my area was having a huge sale on tomatoes. So I didn’t have very far to go to decide that I needed to make gazpacho. I had a few new...
Read MoreI’m not a breakfast eater, but I have learned that if I skip breakfast I start to crave all the wrong things throughout the rest of the day. I usually start my...
Read MoreMy lunch today – lightly steamed broccoli and cauliflower tossed inolive oil and salt, scattered with toasted seeds and crumbled fetaI have...
Read MoreToday it’s raining in Cape Town. My husband just left for a 10 day business trip to Russia this morning. I worked flat out on my feet for 13 hours yesterday....
Read MoreLast week I trained a housekeeper for a family that prefer to eat an organic raw vegan diet as far as is practical. It’s way easier than you might imagine, it...
Read MoreOn Friday my husband called me to let me know that his Buddhist teacher, Geshe Phende, and two of our friends were going to pop in for a quick bite before going off to...
Read MoreI find it pointless to teach lessons with recipes for salads (unless it’s a classic like a Caesar or a Caprese) I prefer to give guidelines and suggestions. For...
Read MoreEver since I saw this recipe on the blog veggie num.num I have been dying to make it but just somehow not getting around to it. This Friday however I did, but… I...
Read MoreToday I experimented with a recipe for fussy kids. A client of mine has two kids who aren’t big veggie eaters and we are trying various recipes with somewhat...
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