Whether you like it hot, medium or mild you will be able to try it all at the Bamboo Chilli Festival tomorrow. Do you make the hottest chilli sauce/product? Bring a sample and you could be crowned as the Bamboo Chilli King or Queen! Cheap Luxury will be there. I have been given my dream…
Month: June 2012
New life for your old knife
New life for your old knife: Do you have a drawer full of old, blunt knives that you can’t use anymore without injuring yourself? Sloane Meat Market will sharpen your all old knives for just R10 per knife. They use a fancy Tormek T7 knife sharpener that they use to sharpen their butchery knives. What…
Irish stew – the way my mother made it
This is one of the dishes that I remember from my childhood and my mom remembers from hers. It has no frills, just good old fashioned simplicity. Enjoy x Natalie IRISH STEW Set oven at 180º C YOU WILL NEED: 2 large onions finely sliced 1 kg stewing lamb (or mutton) trimmed of visible fat…
Capturing Autumn
What do I love about autumn? Cosy fires, gluwein, getting out the woollies after a long hot summer, but if someone asked me what I love best about it, I would have to say, it’s the leaves turning, making the green world into a rich landscape of golds and reds. The trouble is the season…
Cheap & Easy Comfort Food
I think this could become one of my top ten comfort foods. My Mom made it the other day for lunch from a recipe she found in Food & Home. The ingredients are cheap and it is simple to make. Ideally to be served with a carafe of red wine looking over a vineyard –…
What to give the Dad that has everything…
When it comes to days like Father’s Day and Mother’s Day, I like to step out of the commercial buzz that is created by advertising agencies and huge shopping chains and all the pressure that is created to just buy, buy, buy, and think how can I let my Mom or Dad know what they…
Good Ol’ Homemade Remedies
I have just spent the last couple of days tucked up in bed nursing a cold. Although I have felt awful, the best place to be in this sort of weather is in a nice warm bed. I am also blessed with a gem of a husband who keeps me stocked up with tea and…
Cheap & Cheerful Dessert: Bread Pudding
I hate to waste food, and after we’d used a loaf to make lots of dainty sandwiches for our Diamond Jubilee tea we were left with all these crusts! So I devised a bread pudding that also used up the rest of the cream we’d bought for the Coronation Chicken. This is rather rich so…
Have your own TTT Dinner Party Part 3: Dessert
Okay, I have finally got my act together, here is the final part of the TTT Dinner party! And the most delicious one if I may say – The Dessert. If you haven’t yet tried the starter and main course click here for the recipe (Part 1 the Starter & Part 2 The Main Course)…
Open doors…
Happy Friday from us!! x Natalie & Elaine
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