Italian chicken with herbs and mushrooms
The love affair with Italian cooking continues with plump and seductive thighs enhanced by herbs, mushrooms and olives. A real classic!
The passion of bassin’
The hobby of bass fishing takes place from the river bank and entails much more than simply putting your line in the water, writes Eugene Kruger.
Spacious Living
Jonno designs a beautiful spacious house for a reader.
Quick Pasta
The copyright on this recipe is held by ten million Italian grandmothers. In other words, this is a classic, but for all that, a classic well within the reach of the new cook, determined to handle every single step of his personal carbo-loading...
A bird that tells the time
The fascinating cuckoo with its distinctive call parasitises the nests of other species and emerges to follow patterns that have existed for millenia, writes Abré J Steyn.
A good start
Jono helps design a 6-10 room lodge for a reader.
Mushroom and pumpkin lasagne
An early morning visit to the Karkloof Farmers’ Market provided
the freshly harvested oyster mushrooms that give this pasta dish its distinctive flavour and texture. For the beginner cook, this meal is a double success as it is delicious hot or cold
The green ‘guardians’
Are those who are supposed to protect us the ones hurting us, asks Abré J Steyn.
Building with stones
Jono helps a reader design her dream home on a farm.
Home-made marmalade
On a hot, humid Durban Saturday, the last thing any normal person would want to do is spend a couple of sweaty hours in the kitchen, but when the purple grapefruit season arrives, that’s what you have to do.
Retire in style
Carol and Barry called to discuss their new home to be built near Thabazimbi in Limpopo. Carol had a layout of a double storey house with three more bedrooms upstairs she’d taken from a magazine.
Kings & queens of the jungle
Throughout the ages, lions have evoked fear and fascination and endured being ‘tamed’. Rather conserve big cats in the wild, writes Jo Hedges.
