African Vanielje on Mar 25 2009 | Filed under: baking, breakfast, sweet kitchen, vkcb
Waffles have a fond place in my memory as a very rare wimpy treat when on one of our holiday roadtrips as children. In my mother’s book it was definitely considered junk food, especially when paired with soft serve ice cream and maple flavoured syrup. I mean is any of that actual food?
Well, these are [...]
African Vanielje on Mar 25 2009 | Filed under: foodie events, sweet kitchen
A friend of my dad’s, and a regular deli customer, was reminiscing a few weeks ago over his son’s breakfast order of lemon buttermilk waffles. Beezy’s father was born just before the war, and consequently missed out on a whole chunk of childhood. As he grew older and had his own children, he took every opportunity [...]
African Vanielje on Mar 20 2009 | Filed under: my life
It’s difficult to tell exactly how you will react in a crisis unless you’ve been through one or a hundred. As a family we’ve been through our share and it’s becoming fairly easy to predict that my sister will be transformed into someone emminently sensible, my mother will cope with her usual equanimity, quiet strength [...]
African Vanielje on Mar 18 2009 | Filed under: vkcb
If you do not have any sour cream, try substituting creme fraiche or even buttermilk, or put 1teaspoon white wine vinegar into a cup and top with 250ml milk. Allow this to stand and curdle, then use in place of the sour cream.
Cream 250g unsalted butter and 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar, until pale [...]
