It´s about early spring, sunshine on the balcony, lazy days with good friends, flaky pastry, smokey bacon, guitar riffs wafting in on the breeze, dirty dishes that someone else will wash up… hopefully… otherwise, who cares? They can stay there until tomorrow.
Cookies are good any time of the year, but I always seem to make them more often around Christmas time… These ones are shortbread and are ridiculously easy to make, they only need 4 ingredients and you don’t even really need to be exact in your measurements. As long as you’re able to work it all together into an easy-to-roll-out dough, you’re good. If it’s too solid? Add a bit more butter. Too soft? A bit more flour. Easy. Plus, they’re delicious… Merry Christmas! 250g butter 2 cups flour 1 cup Maizena (corn flour) 1/2 cup sugar Cream the sugar…
I am a big follower of foodie blogs, for the food, obviously, but also for the photography. Every time I spend 5 minutes on Pinterest I discover another deliciously photographed food blog that joins my list of favourites… This Apple Sharlotka is from Smitten Kitchen, a blog I have been following for some time now, and the recipes and photos never fail to inspire. I changed a few things from the original… switching white sugar for soft brown (because it was all I had) I used the seeds of half a vanilla pod instead of vanilla extract (because I was…
Garlic is one of my all time favourite things to cook with and roasted is probably the most delicious way to do it. My friend Kirstin taught me how to cook garlic this way, I come from a family of non-garlic lovers so my experience with this yummy stuff was limited until I was in university… We were in the same photography class and Kirstin happened to be assisting one of Cape Towns hot-shot fashion photographers at the time, which meant she had access to all of her equipment whenever she needed. We would create elaborate studio set-ups in her…
So I forgot that it was valentines day today… so did my husband, we remembered in the car on the way to work. So much for breakfast in bed… we decided to do valentines day next week rather, which sounds like good idea to me. So instead of hearts and chocolates we have tomato chutney, which really has nothing to do with anything, except that I didn’t have room in my suitcase to bring a few bottles home from South Africa recently, so I made some instead. Yum.
Kerry Murray 