I love a good high tea, and when I saw Liberté's Instagram post about their French High Tea every Friday, I had to look into it. The first thing I did was send the post to Nafisa, who took these incredible pics and my usual partner in crime when it comes to exploring...
Jan Braai kombineer pizza en braai in ‘n innoverende Col’Cacchio veldtog
Col'Cacchio se span het hierdie persverklaring deur gestuur met die hoop om verrykende blootstelling te kry vir die Iris House Children’s Hospice and The International Youth Fellowship wat voordeel trek uit die veldtog. Na die bekendstelling van hul Travel the...
Something fresh at Starbucks
As summer draws to an end, Starbucks is rolling out fresh food nationwide with a delicious new menu of freshly prepared and ready-to-go snacks and treats. They invited me to try some of it. Some of their new offerings include the granola pot, a breakfast favourite...
Review: Home Cooking
Home Cooking by Herman Lensing is a title sent to me by the wonderful people over at Penguin Random House. I have to be honest; I outsourced this read to the family that cooks my daily dinner. While William does most of the cooking, the gorgeous gilded pages lured...
NESTLÉ SMARTIES get smarter
NESTLÉ SMARTIES has been a constant favourite throughout my life, as I’m sure it’s been for many South Africans. As a child, an ice cream with SMARTIES was the ultimate treat (by the way, I see that a certain fast-food chain is now offering their ice cream mixture...
The baking starts
Everyone probably baked at least one thing during the lockdown. If you had flour and eggs you baked. Or you added them to your list for your next essential grocery outing. I'd made sure to get the ingredients for these blueberry muffins. Grant loves blueberry muffins,...
It’s started
Lockdown started in South Africa at midnight on Thursday 26 March 2020. I decided we should start the day/lockdown deliciously and whipped out a bagel and bacon breakfast. Also coffee, of course, and some few fruit to make sure we don't get scurvy while avoiding the...
Cadbury’s generosity has taken root
In May 2019 Cadbury Dairy Milk launched The Little Generosity Shop to appeal to south Africans to make a difference in the lives of some of the millions of orphaned and vulnerable children in the country. More than 90 000 donations from this initiative were handed...
Celebrating spring with NutriBullet
NutriBullet is super versatile. It is one of the best press drops I've received, and as promised, this weekend I used it to blitz some boozed-up slushies. Syllable's Strawberry Rose I love Hendricks Gin. It's definitely in my top three, if not number one. Inspired by...