African Vanielje on Jul 11 2008 | Filed under: light meals, vkcb
You’ll need to have all your ingredients ready to go before you start. It is a quick and easy dish but requires a little multi-tasking. The basil aioli needs to be made in advance.
Rinse your asparagus and gently snap off the ends. Go as close the the ends as possible until you find the snapping [...]
African Vanielje on Jul 11 2008 | Filed under: light meals, seasonal menus
Seasonal eating, normally such a pleasure in the Somerset countryside, is proving a little disappointing this month. Hold on, that’s not entirely true. I think it is just a little disappointing as my head and heart are still weighted down and groaning with the feast of last summer’s bounty, and the lack is not actual, [...]
African Vanielje on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: how to..., pasta
Making your own pasta is really quick and easy and you can’t beat it for thinks like tagliatelle, cannelloni and lasagne. I used to make it often even before one of my favourite people (and the person who taught me to make pasta) gifted me with the pasta rollers and cutters for my kitchenaid.
My point [...]
African Vanielje on Jul 02 2008 | Filed under: pasta
I admit it. I love kitsch. But not just any kitsch. Specifically that peculiarly, joyously colorful, sundrenched African kitsch. It stops me in my tracks. It speaks to me on some visceral level. It beckons with little cameos of home.
It wasn’t always that way. Growing up I was very boring, and as a teenager, instead [...]
