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Day 36: Boerewors And Mash In The Rain
…… Needless to say, there is no chance of a sun shot today, as the sun is hidden behind the clouds. This makes for some interesting navigation practice for me, as there are now several factors to keep...
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Day 40: Land Ho And Onion Cashew Risotto
… My plot put us twelve miles closer to the island than the GPS, which translates to an hour or two additional sailing. At night the difference would be negligible, as the lights on the island and the...
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Winter Weather Food: Traditional Groenboontjie Bredie
Perhaps better described as green bean stew for my friends overseas. But something is lost in the translation, methinks. The Afrikaans language just has that extra ring to it. Most of us grew up with...
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Boeuf Bourgoignon a la Mode
It has been a while since my last venture into cooking for fun. The recent adventure of sailing a boat from the Seychelles to Gordon’s Bay left me with hardly any energy to experiment. Besides, I had...
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Pagan Style Lamb Chops
I like lamb chops on the braai. But forever the meat is overdone by the time the layer of fat on the outside is done properly. Then the chops are definitely not OK. Cooking them until the meat is to...
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French-Moroccan Style Food Aboard
The last week saw me yet again playing the sailing instructor to a boat load of young people. Young, healthy people with appetites to match. Put in some physical sailing exercises, anchoring off...
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A New Life, A New Beef Stew
I recently seemed to have lost my zeal for cooking. Perhaps I lost my muse, as authors and artists would have it. Or perhaps the two major surgical procedures and the large amounts of anaesthetic in my...
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Flavours of Africa: Oxtail And Samp
Winter arrived properly here in the Cape yesterday, along with the associated rain and cold. Today we have had some thunder and lightning already, with heavy clouds over the Helderberg. Time for a real...
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Poor Man’s Roast
Having a small family is sometimes a hindrance to a food blogger. With just the missus and myself, things get tricky when thinking up new ways to prepare food, given the small quantity required. The...
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On Being A Food Snob
Often-times, one hears about a person being a food snob. Specifically food bloggers. I never cared much for such talk, being rather laid back about criticizing other people’s efforts. Everyone has a...
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