Pad thai Bangkok’s sizzling street food
I guess there are 10 million versions of this national dish. This one gives you the basis to experiment while simultaneously amazing your friends with your Thai-flavoured expertise.
A user-friendly makeover for a holiday home
I received a call from a previous client to come on site and see what I could suggest to make their holiday home more user-friendly and generally improve the look...
A recycled braai: breakfast after the night before
So this family holds a major braai with food of limitless quality and abundance. Somewhere around midnight, the well-fed masses went home, leaving this writer with the singular task of...
The Falls Backpackers and Adventures
In 2004 Adriaan Badenhorst and Angela Metcalf quit their jobs as guides on the Orange River and moved to an abandoned trading station near Maclear in the Eastern Cape to...
Basic two-bedroom house
I got a call from Makwati in Serowe, Botswana. He said that he regularly bought the Farmer’s Weekly to see Hillbilly Homes, but that it mostly featured large, expensive-to-build homes.
Cutting tools- Mankind ultimate tool
Cutting tools, especially knives, are mankind’s ultimate tool, writes Abré J Steyn. This week he looks at various folding knives, including one of his favourites – Leatherman’s Klamath.
Two-bedroom double storey flats
This week Jonno designs a two-bedroom double storey flat and a townhouse of three bedrooms for regular reader Herold.
Fishcakes with sweet potato
This quick and easy recipe produces a meal that works almost as well cold as it does hot, providing content for a dinner party or picnic. The breakthrough that makes...
Seafood pasta with tiger prawns
Do tiger prawns taste different from non-tiger prawns? Not in my opinion. But they certainly look better on the plate with their stripes only marginally dimmed by cooking. So here...
Pears in red wine
This is a magnificent dessert. Never in the history of human pear eating has such a marvellous recipe come into being. Splendid to look at, blissful to eat, this out...
Flight to the lakes
Kenya is iconic wildlife territory, place of the annual wildebeest migration and the mighty Great Rift Valley. Millions of migratory flamingoes find sanctuary in the Rift Valley lakes. Keri Harvey...
Farm-style design
I received a call from Chris, who said he and his wife are purchasing a cattle farm in North West. They want a home which allows for catering, sub-letting, letting...
Camouflaged cottage
Maaike and Stefaan look to Jonno to help them design a holiday cottage in the Eastern Cape.
Slow simmered pork with spring onions & anise
Part of the seriously marvellous joy of cooking is the combination of the familiar with the new. While sometimes this produces a meal fit for Frankenstein, mostly the outcome is...
From Kenya with love
Jennifer and Jeffrey contacted me from Kenya. After more than 30 pages of back and forth emailing of conceptualisation of their home, this sketch was the final outcome.
Polenta-battered chicken breasts
Good to look at, better to eat and best to cook, this Italian-influenced masterpiece might just have been invented by Michelangelo, and offers yet another inspiring way to cook chicken.
Chocolate surprise
Surprise your loved one with a homemade chocolate heart-shaped gift filled with dipped chocolate strawberries.
Herb-stuffed lamb
Sheep have been on the menu for over 10 000 years. It follows that there’s one hell of a lot of ways to cook one, either whole or in part....
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