Author: seemzl
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Double Chocolate Berry Trifle
After 5 months of perfecting (jokes) my baking skills at home, I finally had the opportunity to prepare a dessert for friends. Given this was my first time making a dessert for people who are not my loyal, family taste-testers, the pressure was on. After much deliberation I decided on a braai classic – a…
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Creamy Pineapple Dessert
I don’t have an intro to this dessert other than it is super simple and super yum! Oh, and read up on the effects of mixing fresh pineapple and dairy before serving bitter dessert to your friends and family… (see below) Ingredients 250 ml tub fresh cream 250 ml tub sour cream 1 can condensed…
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Bar One Baked Cheesecake
I started my career working at a leading law firm which had an in-house restaurant with an amazing pastry chef. Don’t get me wrong, I also worked with incredibly talented professionals from whom I learnt a ton. But the personal highlight of my legal career was the AMAZING cheesecake the pastry chef would make every…
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The sweetest sour things: A few of my favorite (sourdough) things
My close friends (and poor Mum) know that I have recently started spending a lot of time talking about, experimenting with, baking with or just generally obsessing over my sourdough starter. Like a lot of time. I have lost sleep stressing over why my starter isn’t rising. I have also gotten out of bed early…
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Chocolate Cardamom Tart
This tart started it’s life as a chocolate lavender tart which I was going to make for dessert on Mother’s Day. Until I realised that the monkeys had pulled out all the lavender which lived in my Mum’s garden, and lockdown regulations prevented the procurement of lavender plants. I then transitioned to a rose tart,…
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The rainbow after the storm: Post lockdown themes
The world has spent a lot of time over the last few months discussing the idea of a post Covid-19 ‘new normal’. The idea of stepping out into a new and improved world, once our respective governments allow us out of our houses, has kept us warm during the long nights in quarantine. Quarantine is…
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Spicy noodle broth
For 2 months, South Africa imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. This meant that for the first 5 weeks we weren’t allowed to purchase takeaways and had to cook every meal ourselves (the horror!). Spicy noodle based dishes and ramen are amongst my favourite dishes and bring back the best memories of…
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Marbled Fudgey Brownies
Being an extrovert stuck at home ALL THE TIME with no traveling plans or Bumble/Hinge boyfriend was really a special kind of hell. My go to, to ease the pain of only having virtual friends and plans, is baking. My family has been subjected to a myriad of baked goods but my Mum’s famous brownies…
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Lessons we learned during a Global Pandemic
Hello and welcome to ‘Fine Whining’ 😊 Whilst we know this post doesn’t find you well, we would like to thank you for taking the time in your weird ‘lockdown is lifting, should I be going to the park to see my friends?’ schedule to read our post. We spent a fair amount of time…
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