This recipe for a classic South African smoked snoek pate comes from Isabella Niehaus’s beautiful new cookbook ‘Duinhuis’ (Dune House). The book – which is written in Afrikaans,…
Liam Tomlin and his exquisite cookbook Thali inspired this recipe for fried curry salt & pepper squid. Its one of the most vibrant and beautiful cookbooks I’ve ever…
Marshmallow sweetie pies are an iconic South African sweet treat and the stuff that confectionary dreams are made of. Snappy chocolate domes smother pillowy marshmallow nestled on a…
Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook and TV series ‘ Jamie Cooks Italy’ has me in raptures. I’m obsessed with everything Italian, so watching Jamie and Genarro Contaldo cruising around…
There are a few things I use as a metric to judge a cookbook, and one of these is how urgently I feel the need to hit my…
I chose to make this kale salad as the first recipe from Bertus Basson’s new cookbook ‘ Being Bertus Basson’ because I was lucky enough to taste it…
A friend who was flipping through my second cookbook ‘sweet’ remarked at how many recipes I had with oranges in them. I hadn’t particularly noticed this or thought…
This orange and Campari cake comes from one of my all-time favourite cookbooks ‘Polpo’ by Russell Norman. Not only is it the most exquisitely designed and made book…
This decadent and utterly delicious chocolate tart is the only one you will ever need. I’ve added pine nuts to break the intense chocolate and add delicious nutty…
I stumbled across this recipe from Menemen whilst reading Diana Henry’s cookbook ‘Simple’ and planned to make it as soon as possible. I had all the ingredients on…
If I’m not making my super easy boiled fruit cake with stout and I want to go all the way, I make my all time favourite fruit cake with…
If you follow along my blog you will know that I had an exceptional experience in Israel in January and I still havent recovered from the most amazing…