by Alet | Jun 16, 2013 | Cooking
Twinned bread rolls: I took the short cut – using bread ready mix for both the brown and white parts (seeing that I don’t have to prove to anyone that I can make bread from scratch.) For 12 rolls I used 250gram of each and prepared as instructed on the packets. While...
by Alet | May 19, 2013 | Articles, Writing
Q: Help! I want to be more than I am right now, but how will I ever attain that? I am tired of wondering and wondering and being on an emotional rollercoaster I don’t want to just carry on with life – I want to LIVE! How am I going to succeed in doing that?...
by Alet | Apr 22, 2013 | Cooking
What do you do when you are stuck with a bunch of grapes past their “best by” date? Other than cooking jam or making a fruit cobbler? Have a quick look on the Internet whether anyone else has had the mad notion of combining grapes with butternut, which was my only...
by Alet | Mar 4, 2013 | Cooking
As usual, I had to make do with what I had, so this is how I came up with a stunning salmon dish: Ingredients: 2 salmon steaks ½ an onion, chopped 1 garlic clove, chopped ½ a mild chilli, deseeded and chopped ½ – 1 bell pepper, chopped a large handful of baby...
by Alet | Nov 18, 2012 | Arts and crafts, Series 13
An apron with a message for Elmarie –a dear friend and a tiny bundle of love and laughter, ideas and inspiration. She is married to a gentle giant and has two young adult children taking on the great big world. Elmarie het ‘n neus vir ‘n droom en weet net hoe om haar...
