Here’s a helpful hint when it comes to these haloumi and rosemary veggie skewers: make extra! These skewers will be gone before you know it.
Roast turkey breast with onion and herb stuffing is a delicious festive dish. Give Christmas dinner or lunch a new twist with this stuffed turkey breast, it only takes an hour and a half to roast. The wonderful lemon and herby aroma add a lovely zesty touch!
A little more grown up and refined than the standard soft drink and ice cream combination, this strawberry and champagne float is deliciously bubbly and zesty. It isn’t…
A pleasant alternative to gammon, this pork joint is cooked like gammon and served with exotic caramelised fruit TO DRINK: Pork loves fruity flavours. A dry chenin is full of sweet apples and tropical fruit
COOK’S TIP You can use 250ml (1 cup) of mixed seeds, available in the health section of most supermarkets.
Beans are a power food second to none and they ‘beef up’ soups and stews too. Plant in December and you’ll reap the rewards in winterALICE SPENSER-HIGGSDry beans are a much underrated winter vegetable that adds a particular flavour, texture and substance to slow-cooked comfort food like soups, casseroles and stove-top stews. “The limit of most people’s bean knowledge is how to make a three-bean salad,” says Sean Freeman of Living Seeds, “and invariably one thinks of the speckled dry beans in the local supermarket.” There are at least 15 types of heirloom or open-pollinated varieties that are grown specifically…
Ayurvedic health care adviser and author of Conscious Cuisine, Damyanti Gajjar, focuses on the importance of energy or prana (life force) when it comes to cooking. Using herbs…