About the most sinful thing you can do with fat and eggs… Yup folks, that would be those three charming French culinary cousins mayonnaise, béarnaise and hollandaise. Mayonnaise is the odd one out in this party as the fat content is provided by oil, whereas béarnaise and hollandaise use, you guessed it, butter. I’ve seen many a competent cook blanch [...]
The mercury has hit the high thirties (Celsius of course, not Fahrenheit) in the Cape quite a few times these last two weeks. Now I know ‘glowing’ is the dainty way of referring to what happens to a woman who’s hot – and I mean hot in the overheating sense, not the boy-I-could-date-her sense. But trust me, ‘glowing’ is entirely [...]
It wasn’t pretty, but somebody had to do it – eat all the leftover Christmas cake and pud that is. Along with all the panettone and trifle. As I sluggishly emerge, Jabba the Hutt-like, from my self-induced Christmas carb coma, I’m counting the cost. I don’t need to get on a scale to know the damage is considerable. One of [...]
Sex On The Beach, it just doesn’t do it for me. Neither do Orgasms. Not terribly Cosmopolitan of me, I know. But I’m just not that kind of girl. A cocktail drinker that is. My knowledge of hard tack and cocktails was kinda up there with No 1’s ability to make sense of income statements and read balance sheets. Notable [...]
The psychology of marketing is pretty basic. ‘Discount’ gets my attention. ‘Save’ is good, but ‘half price’ much better. ‘Free’ is awesome (if it has some credibility that is, and is not accompanied by an increase in price – yes retailers, we notice). But my favourite marketing shout-out has to be ‘NEW’. My response is positively Pavlovian. I guess that’s [...]
When it comes to a braai, I’m as fond as the next guy of chop-’n-dop. But see here’s the thing – I suffer from a terminal case of DGS (Domestic Goddess Syndrome). I may not be one, but I do rather try, so for me chop-’n-dop simply doesn’t cut it for guests, even if it is just a braai. When [...]