Category: Crafts

Hamish loves being in the kitchen and one day I’m sure he will cook his future partners one amazing meals.

This weekend while Brent had a braai going, Hamish asked if he could make the salad.

I handed him the salad ingredients and he cut, sliced, diced and tossed us the perfect rainbow salad to go with our braai.

To make Hamishs rainbow salad for yourself you will need:

Ingredients

* pre-packed Italian salad from Pick n pay ( or a mix of salad greens and red peppers.)

* baby tomatoes

* cucumber

* yellow peppers

To make:

Open your salad and toss the salad greens and red peppers into a larger bowl.

Drop in baby tomatoes that have been washed.

Slice cucumber and place in the bowl.

Cut up yellow peppers and add to the salad.

Toss all together.

Enjoy served with a salad dressing.

Nando’s recently shared a delicious recipe to make true Mozambican peri-peri sauce.

I immediately jumped to it and tried. What a delicious fusion of Chilli, tomatoes and lemon juice.

This recipe will go down well on Father’s day if dad likes a hot meal. In fact both Brent and my older sons were licking their fingers after tasting.

Give it a try….

Mozambique Peri-Peri Sauce

You will need:
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp pureed garlic
4 tbsp pureed onion
1 tbsp chopped fresh red chilli
6 African Bird’s Eye Chillies finely chopped with seeds

To make your sauce

1. Preheat heavy based pan on medium to low heat with oil
2. Crush the fresh chillies and the spice with the mortar and pestle until smooth paste forms. Set aside
3. Add onion, garlic and salt to pan. Cook for 10 minutes or until onions are translucent
4. Then add the fresh chilli and spice mix to the pan, cook for another 5 minutes
5. Add vinegars, lemon juice and 1 cup of water to the pan. Bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes
6. Mix the cornflour with an extra 2 tbsp water, stir into sauce and simmer for another 2 minutes
7. Blend the Sauce with a hand blender until smooth
8. Pour into a jar and close lod tightly. Leave to cool.

Recipe courtesy of Nandos

This morning breakfast is an Egg-stra special bunnylicious treat.

A cute little egg bunny and some dinosaur Easter eggs on a field of grass.

To make your own:

You need:

• Markers
• Half a toilet roll tube
• 3 hard boiled eggs
• Paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Paint brush or earbud
• Food colouring ( red and blue)
• Pear
• Food grater

The Egg bunny

For your bunny cut the toilet tube in half and let your child decorate with markers as the bunny’s body. ( This also acts as an egg holder)

Place your eggs into boiling water and cook until hard boiled.

Remove one egg and peel.

Paint on the eyes and bunny mouth using a brush or ear bud and food colouring.

From paper cut a crown shape with two ears, glue to fasten and place this on the bunny’s head.

Dino eggs

For the dinosaur eggs, take the remainder of your eggs and lightly roll them on the counter to crush them gently.

Place these into a cup with food colouring.

Remove once the entire egg has been covered in colour and set aside to dry for a few minutes.

The colouring will seep through the small crack lines and when you peel your egg it will give the marbled look.

Pear grass

To finish off our egg- stravaganza I grated some pear as grass. You could also use apple if you prefer.

To finish

Place the grated pear onto the plate.

Put your egg bunny onto the pear grass and lay the dino eggs at his feet.

A lovely way to surprise the kids on Easter morning.