When one’s reached a point where they have to lose kilos in the double digits, food choices shrink considerably. Breakfasts have been consisting of fruit and sometimes porridge loaded with fruit, and egg whites but that gets a bit monotonous after a while. The kids and the hubby love their cornflakes and sugar loaded honey loops and other items with tons…
Whenever I’ve made chocolate mousse for guests at a dinner party, there've been rave reviews. My family loves it, especially my husband. The recipe is so simple and one can use any liquor of their choice here, rum, kahlua, flavoured brandys. The texture of the mousse is smooth and melt-in-the-mouth and the flavour decadent. My introduction to this came from Irish T.V.…
Most of my cooking has generally veered towards Continental cuisine mainly because being the lazy person that I am, I prefer to use as few ingredients as I possibly can. Spices and the huge array of them used in Indian cooking used to completely overwhelm me. Also, having someone make our daily meals gave me the liberty to try my experiments with…
Summer is truly upon us and the dry hot weather just begs for a refreshing drink to cool us from the inside. While many people go for the traditional iced black tea, I’ve moved on to the green tea version at home and have been drinking this all through the summer for the past few years. It’s light, refreshing and healthy to…
You can just see how much I love potatoes. My affinity for the spud shines through on this blog with almost every second post featuring them as the lead. There are a gazillion ways to make potatoes and I plan to try out as many of them as I can. All this love however, is quite unfavourable to my waistline, but what…
What does one even need to say about fried rice. It’s quick, easy and wonderfully tasty if done the right way. There are so many variations of this dish and one can use just about any vegetable or meat to make it. And the best part of it is that it can be made with leftover rice. I’ve kept mine simple with very…
Modified Post: I had posted a recipe for mayonnaise three years ago and after making it a few times in different appliances, realised that it needed a little more body, so I've replaced it with completely new proportions. This one is fool proof and uses a lot more oil and fewer everything else from the original but it's wayyyyy better. We…