Turkey for Christmas lunch
A large Christmas lunch takes time to prepare. Here, we use standard industrial time and motion methods to speed up production while maintaining quality.
Cape Dutch house design
Dear Jonno Your environmentally friendly designs have made me a loyal Farmer’s Weekly reader. I need you to help me design a lovely house – the...
Christmas trifle
This is without doubt the simplest dessert recipe I know, with the exception of vanilla ice cream. The only skill demanded of you is to make the trifle look elegant...
A holiday and retirement home
Dear Jonno We need help with the design of our new home in eMacambini on the KZN North Coast near the Amatikulu Nature Reserve. The...
Fabulous fish pie
You don’t have to live on the beach to enjoy this delicious meal, since the fishy parts come straight out of the supermarket freezer. And to make it even easier,...
An elegant, practical home
Estelle and Barry would like to build a retirement home on their son’s farm in the eastern Free State.
Cauliflower mash with chicken livers
To make cauliflower mash with chicken livers and chorizo sausage for four, you will need: For the mashed cauliflower: 1 head of...
A modern farmhouse
Dear Jonno Neil and I want to build a new home in the Karoo and eagerly await each week’s copy of Farmer’s Weekly for ideas.We...
Thai-style steak and salad
Eat more plants, we’re told. An excellent idea, especially with the wide choice of delicious greens available these days. But we love our meat too, don’t we? So here’s a...
Modern rural living
Dear Aubrey Thank you for calling and discussing the requirements for your new home outside Pietermaritzburg. Looking through my file of more than 700 sketches...
Hellfire chicken
This is the stage name for grilled chicken in red chilli sauce. The red chilli sauce is a variation on a riff on an improvisation on a South East Asian...
Modern home in rural setting
Dear Jonno I would like to build a three-bedroom house in Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape, so I kindly need your help. I have...
Cost-effective retirement home
Dear Arnold Here is the sketch of the layout for the retirement home you are planning in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. I’ve made the sizes of...
Roasted prawns with dipping sauce
We all know the traditional image of prawns: palid specimens covered in red goo, heaped in a sundae glass dish or even a wineglass. Oh, I nearly forgot the ‘bed...
Designing a block of flats
Dear Jonno I need your help as I would like to build several one- and two-bedroom flats on a 1ha piece of land. I would...
Pork belly: cooked twice, eaten often
Twice-cooked dishes are usually Chinese in origin, with the raw ingredients getting two treatments instead of one. While a little heavy on the cook, the effects on the diners make...
A cost effective cottage
I would like to build a house and have designed a plan. It is, however, incomplete, so I require your help. I need you to also include the approximate costs.
Feta and broccoli lasagne
This is a huge blast of flavour created with little effort, and a regular hit in my household. Be sure not to skimp on the whisking action to ensure the...
Retiring at the lakeside
I received a call from Mike and Molly, who would like a stage-built house in a private lakeside home resort. The man-made lake, which...
Pasta with brinjals and tomatoes
Spaghetti with a sauce is a family staple throughout this nation of ours. Instead of working a can opener, here’s a more hands-on pasta meal for four that is easy...
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