Tag Archive 'sweet kitchen'

Buttermilk and Orange Blossom pancakes with Homemade Honey Yoghurt

Buying gifts for cooks is always an easy thing to do. You can never have too many kitchen gadgets, or too large a kitchen for that matter. Lately I’ve been incredibly lucky on the kitchen gift front and this morning I put one of those gorgeous gifts to good use. On a [...]

Organic Honey and Oat Granola Bars

The great thing about this recipe is that you can customize it and use your own flavours. I like to use all organic ingredients, a sweet local honey and some sour cherries to stop it from being too cloying. If you like you can up the sugar and lessen the honey as [...]

Super sunshine granola bars - or how to feed your kids like a Jewish mother even when they’re not home.

This week was my daughter’s first ever school camp. She, despite her excitement overdrive was extremely organised about the whole thing. Sunday morning dawned bright and indecently early as it always does in summer. But in direct opposition to the enthusiastic dawn chorus I was determined to have a lazy Sunday [...]

Buttermilk rusks

One of my daughter’s favourite treats, and despite the fact that this is one of the best recipes I have seen for rusks, she still doesn’t think they are as good as the ones we get at the little coffee shop in Greyton, Cape Town, where my parents have a holiday cottage. Shows you [...]

Monday is a good day for a MEME

A week or so ago I was tagged for a MEME by Anne of Anne’s Food. She was one of the first bloggers I started reading and I’ve always been drawn to her clean clear style, so different from my wildly undisciplined ramblings. She has a few other points in her favour, not [...]