Posts in the "Wicked Tips" Category

• tip of the week – stone the avos

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  I know I’ve already done a tip for the week, but I didn’t do one last week, so consider this my sorry attempt to make amends. Actually, this silly little tip has been bashing about in my head for a while now – it’s irritating me and I want it gone and the only way [...]

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• tip of the week – tomato stalks

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  Nope, this is not a sequel to “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” featuring a giant red stalker, it is, in fact, a tip I picked up while watching a program by Heston Blumenthal (you know, the granite-jawed, bespectacled, celebrity chef of The Fat Duck fame) and one that I thought at the time was fabulously simple [...]

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• diet tips for breast health

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  October is breast cancer awareness month, and although I know that (hopefully) all of us are concerned about this horrible disease, I suspect that a lot of us don’t really think about it too much until, god-forbid, either we, or someone we love, is diagnosed with it.
  I had a bit of a scare last month, [...]

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• handy flour conversion

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  I don’t know about you, but I find it hugely frustrating when recipe books give measurements in the “wrong” units. What I mean by that is that, for me, dry ingredients are for weighing, liquids for measuring. I don’t want to work out 180 grams of water any more than I do a cup of [...]

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• tip of the week – marinading

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  My tip for the week is in honour of National Heritage / Braai Day, next week Thursday, the 24th September. Once again it’s not exactly the culinary equivalent of nuclear fusion – hell, if I ever get that right, I’ll patent it and then blog about if from the island in the Caribbean that I [...]

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• store cupboard essentials – baking

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  Top 10 Baking Store Cupboard Essentials
  I love lists. I’m absolutely useless at following them, but I do love creating them. It makes me feel like the organised little Santa-elf I always aspire (and fail catastrophically) to be…
  With that in mind, I thought I’d start a new section called store-cupboard “essentials” that will list (I get [...]

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• tip of the week

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  Okay, this is stunningly simple (I actually feel kinda guilty devoting a whole post to it) but it is also stunningly useful, so, just in case you don’t know, I thought I’d share this cunning little secret with you!
  If you ever have some champagne / sparkling wine / fizzy rot-gut left over (an odd thought, [...]

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