A Mediterranean pasta classic
Here’s a meal from the great folk who gave us the Roman Empire, Luciano Pavarotti, Ferrari sports cars, and some of the strangest Test rugby known to modern man.
A unique cottage plan
Dear Jonno I’m always fascinated by your unique country design homes. In one of your recent articles, you suggested the use of throw-away wood quarterings....
Calamari pasta in tomato sauce
Pan-fried calamari is an impressive addition to the new cook’s repertoire, and the tomato sauce is a tasty reinvention of a classic. Enjoy this dish with a cold beer, or...
5 tips on designing a home
Every one of us is unique and has a different idea of what we want our home to look like. To date, I have prepared over 4 800 working drawings...
An unusual gathering place for a rural community
A client, Lethu, recently collected the working drawings I had prepared for his two-bedroom home.
Stir-fried beef & broccoli
Stir-frying, as I never cease to tell my readers, is a liberation for the new cook. It’s a quick path to astonishing dinner parties or even a quick and fragrant...
Roast chicken with lime salsa verde
While a broiler fowl straight from the chiller at the supermarket may be a marvel of contemporary agriculture, the bird can sometimes be a little low on flavour. And that’s...
Two-bed farm cottage
Tyron asks Jonno to design a double-storey farm cottage for him. Look at what Jonno comes up with.
KZN coastal aubergine curry
This is a fine stand-alone dish, or if you’re a relentless carnivore like this writer, a great side-dish to a mutton or chicken curry. A couple of roti per diner...
Variation on a glass-front theme
Dear Jonno Thank you for the initial sketches you sent me for my idea of a u-shaped lodge building. Here is my plan for moving...
Saigon lemon grass, chicken and noodle salad
Well, not so much a traditional salad as an unfamiliar, quite wonderful combination of hot stir-fried chicken and noodles with cool cucumber, lettuce and carrots.
Twice-roasted chicken in lemon sauce
Just when I thought there was nothing new to learn about cooking chicken, along came a totally unexpected roasting method. Not only that, but I received this recipe from a...
Wilderness hideaway with a view
Dear Jonno We find your regular advice in Farmer’s Weekly on the design and construction of houses exciting and informative. My wife and I have a...
Linguini with basil, blue cheese & chicken
The invention of pasta is almost as important as the discovery of bread. And the genius of both is their ability to trigger so many different flavour combinations.
A timber home on a lake
Dear Jonno We’ve enclosed a sketch of a house that we would like to build. We have not allowed for any doors, apart from the...
Sizzling red-hot fish braai
There comes a time when the amateur braai mechanic realises that not all protein is red nor are all steaks beef. Here’s a magnificent fish braai procedure that I learnt...
Tuscan – family style
Thami, a client for whom I previously designed a community hall, called to ask for another plan, this time for a family home.
Grilled chicken breasts in a cast-iron pot
Grilled chicken, as endless retail outlets prove daily, is an all-time favourite. Here’s my way of producing damn fine grilled chicken at home.
Dukkah: spice of life
Dukkah is an Egyptian snack, designed to be crunchily consumed with crusty bread, limpid olive oil and the Ethiopian coffee of your dreams.
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