Here are a few recipe ideas to help you through stage 6
#LoadsheddingUpdates
A thread (also assuming you have have a gas job)
Pasta dishes (stove top):
6 weeks ago I thought I was blessed to live in SA under the leadership of
@PresidencyZA
Cyril Ramaphosa, but now I wake up with utter dread & hopelessness that this govt is driving this country into the ground with sinister political agendas 😩😢
Yesterday I logged a call for a broken cable and loss of a phase of electricity to my house. Reported it on the
@CityofCT
app at 11.30 am. They arrived at 1.30. The cable was fixed by 2pm. I would never not vote for
@Our_DA
. I just want a city that works. It's the only option.
I would love it if restaurants promoted that their staff were all vaxxed and it was a safe environment. I have seen waiters wear badges saying they are vaxed and it makes me happy.
Cape Town you are in for the biggest treat with the new Time Out Market the V&A. It's world class and I'm so excited for us to have this 🙌🏻. There is a bit of everything so you can pick & choose.
I literally get asked almost every day to personally recommend restaurants for any friend, arb person, their aunt and their aunts boss out from London, which is why I created my very comprehensive guide to eating out in CT:
So blown away and honoured to have just won the Digital Food Influencer award at the
#GalliovaAwards
🥂🙏🏻 which were held via Zoom. It's the second year that invited digital food media were invited to enter.
I keep thinking about the waiters and chefs who peacefully protested during Covid & they brought out teargas, water canons, riot police to disperse the crowd. None of that seen now with these thugs
#Taxistrike
I couldn't hold back the tears after I was vaccinated today. I feel so grateful & relieved that I have this extra layer of protection and can be part of the solution and protect others too 🙏🏻💉🥂
My Sunday just became awesome with afternoon tea delivered to my door from the
@themountnelson
🍰
Available Sat & Sun & bookings in by Thursday. Exquisite!
I've been fiddling around trying to make perfect muesli rusks during lockdown and I can now present the recipe. Loaded with oats, raisins and 3 types of seeds these are so easy and wholesome:
I left my house in a rush today after cooking and left a tray of garlic bread in my kitchen. I just got home and all the bread is gone. There is no sign of a break in and I'm totally freaked out 😱
#garlicbreadmystery
I found stunning house. I'm getting a 2 year lease and all this on the anniversary of my return home to Cape Town 13 years ago to build my dream life around food creativity. The 5th of November is a day of good juju for me 💫🥂🙏🏻
I turned my best ever hot cross bun recipe into a loaf because we only ever want to toast the buns anyway right?
The recipe to make 1 medium loaf + 8 HCB's in here:
Today is kinda a big deal for me because it's my Blogs Birthday and turns 14 🥂⭐️ 🥳🎂🥂
I obviously had to have cake and share MY BEST CARROT cake recipe:
My nephew was on the first BA direct flight back to Cape Town from Heathrow and said the welcome at CT International was incredible with huge fanfare, Firetrucks shooting water into the sky people dressed up as penguins and it made me feel quite tearful & happy for tourism.
I wish Woolies (or anyone else) would make simple cotton winter pajamas that are not a skinny fit, have an elasticated waist and are black. Just so simple but seemingly impossible 😔
*I’m SO EXCITED to announce that my eBook is finally launched* 🚀🥂🍾
Comfort is a collection of 42 deliciously nostalgic and familiar recipes that are designed with the pure pleasure of eating in mind. To buy my book:
When I started this blog journey 8 and a bit years ago I would never have thought I would reach 10 million views. I'm super proud that my tiny corner of the internet has been seen by so many people.
In order to help support our restaurants, let's see what their new opening hours are and adjust our supper times to earlier. Personally I love eating earlier. Who's in?
I'm very pro vaccine passports. Choosing to be vaccinated is about putting others ahead of your self. About creating a secure eco system in our society for everyone. You should not be able to roam freely in this system if you arent taking a jab for the team
#VaccineRollOutSA
@GrootConstantia
What a tone deaf and highly insensitive tweet at a time when the entire hospitality industry is suffering & crumbling. I will go out of my way to ensure I never support your estate going forward
#jobssavelives
👋🏻
Today I reactivated my Sea Point library card & took out 7 cookbooks (could hardly carry them). Chatted to 3 lovely librarians who were 👌🏻. I logged onto the Press Reader & Libby apps. Access to the
@nytimes
Taste Mag + so much more. Found my my 1st cookbook in the library
I did my last ever shoot in my studio yesterday. And it was bittersweet. I started my blog and built my business in this cluttered little space & produced 2 cookbooks. I know every nuance of light that seeps in and I'm slightly terrified of how it's all going to be in my new one
Thanks to the person on Twitter (sorry I forgot) who gave me the idea of using a spekboom as a Xmas tree. I'm rather pleased with the result. Also my first xmas tree of my own as an adult 🎄
Heartbreaking chatting to Zimbabweans who now live in fear of being murdered every day in South Africa & of their bleak future after working so hard to get better jobs 🥲
I’m kinda glad the Instagram algorithm hates stills images right now and not too many people will see this pic of me. I literally hate being in front of the camera for a portrait 😬. I needed to get a few images taken for my new eBook which I launched…
Just weighed in and in 10 months I'm 14KG's down and lost 42cm on hips, waist and breasts (sadly breasts lost 20cm of that alone 😢). I'm doing this slowly and carefully eating all the food groups 🤘🏻
#Drizzleandstrip
PSA if you have cracked heels. I was recommended this product (From Dischem) years ago and it's like a miracle balm. It takes 3 applications to totally eradicate the cracks 👌🏻💫🙌🏻
Today I'm down 4.5kgs in 4 weeks on my healthy eating plan. I eat 6 times a day and havent cut any food group. I've also had a portion of every delicious thing I've made for my blog. YAY!
I created this autumnal cheese board with the new range of President cream cheese's. Pomegranate, pears, grapes, crackers, honey, figs, cheese straws, baguette, caper berries, olives and almonds. What else do you like on a cheese board? 🧀🍷
I snuck away this weekend to a very isolated corner of Robertson which was pure nectar for my soul. Drank some incredible wine including
@dewetshofestate
Finesse which paired perfectly with fire grilled peri peri prawns 👌🏻
@ltyira
@Rooivalk
@Abramjee
Surely boycotting the store would be a better way to go? Or protest outside stores to strongly communicate your position against the t shirt
I did a shoot at Noop in Paarl today and got to taste a few dishes. If this restaurant was in Cape Town, I would eat there all the time. Just so so good 👌🏻Chef Zian is such a lovely guy too. No badass chef energy, just chill.
I don't understand how people can be going to bars and taverns at this stage of the pandemic? It literally blows my mind. Any indoor venue where mainly alcohol is being served is problematic. I can't understand why these places aren't shut down instead of the beaches 🤯
People show their true colours when they share the Cyril mask meme. I think I respect him too much and I would hate if I made a mistake like that and then to be so hectically ripped off.
Another wonderful trip to Jozi with lots of family bonding. As usual I loved the weather, the trees and the fact that people know how to drive properly, but most of all, I just love the people. Joburg people (on the whole) are just so much nicer than Cape Town people 💫
This is hands down the coldest winter I have ever experienced in Cape Town 🥶
Anyone else agree?
My electric blanket broke and I need another one. Any recommendations? My last one was about 15 years old
This year the
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
#woolieschristmas
range launch party is virtual but they sent me some goodies to show you 🎄💫🥂(the mince pie selection always a huge treat). Also loved the trout ribbons with bagel seasoning & roast cauliflower kit 👌🏻
I shop a lot across all the food retailers and can honestly say that no matter what store, PnP has the worst user experience. From layout to range to staff to Q system. Today in the V&A only 3 tills open per side.
Over the week end my website had over 7k hits a day. People are cooking and baking up a storm. My classic buttermilk recipe from 2011 is very popular right now, showing you that content on food blogs have massive longevity
I think you have to be really unhappy with yourself if you feel the need to go out and attack another person on social media (or anywhere). Happy people won't feel the need to do that.
When
@gennarocontaldo
agrees that if this chicken were a woman he'd marry it and THEN you see this beautiful recreation, you know you have to give it a try! >>
One thing I am getting really sick of on SM is people telling me how I should feel, think, behave and what I should be doing during this crises. I think we need to be kinder x
I'm compiling a list of retailers that sell SA wine in the UK. Let me know of any good ones you know of. I will share this so we can all try get our UK friends to buy our wine and help our industry 🙏🏻🍷
Can we just talk about the 50 civilians decapitated in our immediate neighbour Mozambique as Islamist militants attempt to establish an Islamic state in the region? And the ongoing threat 😨😱😭 It's buried at the bottom on the news.
I always get the sense that no one works on a Friday afternoon. Am I the only one? No emails come through, no replies etc. Especially from Capetonians.
I'm 6 months into my healthier eating / weight loss journey and I've lost 13 kg's. I eat ALL the food groups and could NEVER EVER do anything as silly as cut out carbs.
This Chilli Crunch from
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
is completely delicious. I'm going to attempt a copycat but also stockpile it in case they ever discontinue it 👌🏻
Day before my move and I'm feeling calm. I'm making sandwiches for my contractors because feeding people is my default position to show my appreciation.
The
@CityofCT
is off their rocker charging R19/ hour for parking on sea point main road 😳 (was R8 pre pandemic). Most parking garages including the V&A do R10/ hour. Gardens R10 for 4 hours. It's totally outrageous 🤬