• Shallots are wonderful in soups, as they are much sweeter and cook quicker than regular onions. This delicious recipe for French shallot soup takes only 45 minutes to make and will feed your whole family! Use this quick and easy beef stock recipe for this soup (link opens in a new tab). Recipe and styling by Illanique van Aswegen Photograph by Adel Ferreira

    If you prefer to make one large limoncello tiramisu, simply layer your ingredients in a 30cm round or square serving dish instead of individual bowls. 

    This sweet potato soup with maple and whisky-glazed bacon is the only way to beat the winter chill. It’s the perfect combination of sweet and salty. We love making a batch big enough to feed the family AND take some for lunch the next day. Serve with croutons or a slice of bread of your choice. ALSO TRY: Smoky pumpkin chowder soup with pumpkin seed pesto and sriracha crème Recipe by Jacques Erasmus Another one of our favourite soup recipes: Cheesy beer and fennel soup

    We’re easing into the autumn months with this hearty favourite. You simply cannot go wrong with a delicious ragout and this lamb ragout is perfect for colder evenings.…

    The term “aha moment” is one I tend to use sparingly, because it’s been my experience in life that shortly after I think I’ve had one of these revelatory realisations, something happens to undo it all, thus unravelling my newfound resolve as quickly as a kitten does a ball of string! As I recently discovered, there’s a term for this humbling, and admittedly frustrating, fact of life: aporia, which stems from the Greek word for puzzle. In his book, Aporias, Jacques Derrida – the late French philosopher and founder of the “deconstruction” movement of critical thinking – summed up aporia…