african vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Pasta, food blogging event
I’m not really sure why, as Italian is the one gene pool that my family haven’t been swimming in, but my daughter’s favourite food is pasta. She has loved it in all its various guises for as long as I can remember. Her favourite is almost any sort of pasta from spaghetti to linquine, or [...]
african vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: vkcb
I love this easy mix and match mince pie mix for the fact that you can tweak the ingredients and spices to reflect different tastes.
It also uses lots of apple instead of suet, making it less fatty but just as delicious.
In a big bowl mix:
400g raisins
400g currants
200g sultanas
Or a combined 1 kilogram of luxury dried [...]
african vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: cake decorating, meme
One random fact down and six to go in the 7 random things meme I was tagged for by Belinda of WHats cooking in a Southern Kitchen.
Today’s random fact is that I love to paint. I am not very good at it and see it more as a therapeutic process and less as a desired [...]
african vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: SHF, christmas, vegan, vegetarian
Apple season is in full swing and the apples seem to be dropping faster than we can collect, juice, bake, pie or otherwise transmogrify them into the ultimate autumn comfort foods. The wide variety of trees in the orchard offer up a lottery of ‘cookers’ and ‘eaters’. Some of them are eaters (deliciously sweet and [...]
