African Vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I love this easy mix and match mince pie mix for the fact that you can tweak the ingredients and spices to reflect different tastes.
It also uses lots of apple instead of suet, making it less fatty but just as delicious.
In a big bowl mix:
400g raisins
400g currants
200g sultanas
Or a combined 1 kilogram of luxury dried [...]
African Vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
One random fact down and six to go in the 7 random things meme I was tagged for by Belinda of WHats cooking in a Southern Kitchen.
Today’s random fact is that I love to paint. I am not very good at it and see it more as a therapeutic process and less as a desired [...]
African Vanielje on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Apple season is in full swing and the apples seem to be dropping faster than we can collect, juice, bake, pie or otherwise transmogrify them into the ultimate autumn comfort foods. The wide variety of trees in the orchard offer up a lottery of ‘cookers’ and ‘eaters’. Some of them are eaters (deliciously sweet and [...]
African Vanielje on Oct 17 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
A while ago (everything in my life is a while ago, I’m constantly playing a half hearted game of catch-up) that Fabulous Southern Girl tagged me for a 7 random things meme. Yes I have been procrastinating, what’s new, as everything (and nothing) in my life is random. I’m not sure what to [...]
