Lifestyle

There are times, usually when the night is dark, the wind howling and the rain beating on the windows, when all you want out of life is a bowl of hot, steaming soup.

Dear Jonno As per our discussion, please find the attached sketch, which I would like your assistance with. Kindly use minimum dimensions for bedrooms, toilets, living...

The English cook stews. The French design casseroles. Give this lamb and haricot bean combination your best shot. Your guests will love you for it.

Dear Jonno Here is an outline of the requirements for my new home: It must be a double storey house that features a combination of...

Some Israeli friends recently dropped by just long enough to cook me a breakfast of shakshuka. This rewarding dish consists of eggs baked on a bed of spiced tomatoes. Add lamb kidneys and you have a delicious, quick-to-prepare Sunday brunch.

My family and I are considering building a home on a piece of land and would like some assistance with a basic sketch and dimensions, so we can get a builder’s quote to assess viability.

Completing a rapid review of my past pasta recipes for this page has revealed that nearly all of the recipes entailed sauces for store-bought pasta. While these products, both local and imported, are very good, something deep inside told me that maybe, just maybe, making the stuff at home was the shining path to pasta truth.

Would you please design for me a layout for a retirement cottage? I have attached a rough sketch of what I have in mind...

Stews are perfect for a chilly winter's evening. Here's a recipe for a delicious hearty beef stew.

Dear Jonno I have been reading your column in Farmer’s Weekly for a long time and have attached a rough floor plan for a structure...

This classic one-pot family meal owes much of its ongoing popularity to an amiable relationship with mushrooms. These fabulous fungi contribute to the feast with their delicious flavour as well as their appearance.

Dear Jonno I am a Farmer’s Weekly magazine subscriber and I normally see your beautiful plans in it. I do not know if you could...

Cajun cooking is a mixture of smokin’ and grillin’. Like Cajun music, it’s both familiar and unfamiliar. While this recipe works well with alligator or any local giant water-living reptile species, some frozen hake fillet is really all you need to hunt for.

Dear Jonno I have a 9m x 25m steel shed on my property, which I would like to turn into a home. I would like...

Chicken pieces are ideal in the hurried kitchens of working people. Here’s a quickish dinner for three or four people complete with potatoes and a revved-up sauce. All in one roasting pan…

Dear Jonno Membership of our clay pigeon shooting range has grown over the years, and we now need to cater for more than 200 participants...

It’s easy to forget that chilli is so much more than a local curry, with or without rice. Here’s a New World homage to the chilli, that glorious, scarlet, life-enhancing veldfire in the mouth.

Dear Jonno We would appreciate it if you would consider posting a suggested design for us in your next article. We would like to build a...

It’s a pity that ‘Lemon Cream’ is a brand name, as this is a better description than ‘lemon curd’ for this magnificent sweet-and-sour dessert. With sparse ingredients and minimal preparation time, it is the perfect complement to ice cream or yogurt.

Dear Jonno, My husband and I are planning our retirement home on our newly acquired farm in the north-eastern Free State. We enjoy your innovative...