What a Beautiful Country!

Soccer fever has hit South Africa!

Here's my yellow post today for my country and our soccer team, Bafana Bafana! Let's hope they can pull off a miracle today!

Cheerful Butternut Soup in a beautiful bowl by a local ceramicist.

 

Isn't my hat awesome!

Recipe for Golden Butternut Soup.

1 medium butternut diced

4 leeks sliced

1 onion sliced

500ml chicken stock

4 TBLS marg

2 stalks celery

3 medium potatoes

500ml cream

1 tsp sugar

Salt and pepper and thick cream to garnish (as you can see, I didn't have thick cream!)

Method:

Melt marg, saute leeks,celery, onion, butternut and potatoes. Cook for 10min. Add stock and cook til veggies are soft. Add milk (thin cream) and sugar. Liquidize, and add seasoning. Serve with a scoop of thick cream or as desired!

From the recipe book: Still  Cooking the Grey way!

Nurturing

Nurture, guard, and guide the flock of God that is your responsibility … Not domineering as arrogant, dictatorial, and overbearing persons but being examples, patterns, and models of Christian living …. 1 Peter 5:2-3 (Amp)

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me.” That’s absolutely wrong!

Names hurt more than sticks and stones. A child can break a leg or an arm and it’ll heal, but some of you are still under a curse today because when you were growing up your dad or mom said, “You’re never going to amount to anything.” And you’re still trying to prove them wrong. You’re still reacting to life instead of acting.
As parents we must understand the power of our words to hurt or heal. Always encourage, give praise when it's due but gently guide them on the right pathway. Finally, pray for them.

See you soon!
Shel

Food for my Soul!

A beautiful day long ago!

Thank you for family and friends.

'Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all life's blessings! 'Our God is great!

Food for my Soul!

My older son, Wesley and his girlfriend did the Tsisikamma Waterfall Zipline this weekend!
(Part of a team building conference with her company.)
Well, well, just look at these awesome photographs courtesy of the Waterfall Zipline team!

Awesome, awesome!

As for mom, look out for my beautiful 'cupcake' tea cosy I crotcheted this weekend! And lots of baking,too!
Jarryd is writing exams for the next two weeks, so it's hush- hush and lots of foodie treats for everyone!

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble!

See you soon!
Shel

A Beautiful Mother's Day.

Simple pleasures.

Lunch under the trees in my garden.

Roses

Steak on the braai only how my darling can!

My family all gathered around

Chocolate cake to die for!

Then these little darlings for an apertif!

Sweetcorn Fritters with Mascarpone and strawberries!

1 tin of sweetcorn kernals

1cup of cake flour

1 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

1 egg

1/2 cup milk

1 T oil

3 or 4 fresh strawberries

castor sugar

6tsp mascarpone cheese

Sift dry ingredients together. Add egg and drained corn. Then milk to form a runny batter. Heat the oil and drop tsps' of batter into the frying pan. Fry 'til golden and assemble. It takes +-1min either side to fry. Stack, add mascarpone to tops of each pile and top with a stawberry! Dust with icing sugar.

Heavenly!!

Enjoy!

See you soon

Shel

Food for my soul!

'Until you make peace with who you are , you'll never be content with what you have'.--Doris Mortman......~ so true!

Our Ironman with a heart of gold! Well done Wes, we are proud of you!

A beautiful cake for you!

Ingredients: ~

250g butter

1 tsp vanilla

11/2 cup coffee

200g good quality dark chocolate

400g sugar

2 eggs

180g sifted self raising flour

20g sifted cocoa

Icing ~

3/4 cup cream

200g drk chocolate

2 T Bailey's or Amlarula Cream

Method~

Preheat oven to 170 Cel. Grease a tin. Let the vanilla and coffee simmer for a while. Add butter,chocolate and sugar and continue to heat until choc and butter have melted. Pour this into a mixing bowl and whisk in eggs. Fold in sifted flour and cocoa and pour into greased tin. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours til skewer comes out clean. When cooled, turn out and drizzle with chocolate ganache.

See you soon

Shel

Happy Easter!

Easter is a time of the year when we are filled with joy and love!

Have a blessed Easter 2010.

We are off to the sea, to renew, breathe in new life and just enjoy every breath of fresh air!

Who better to spend it with, than my loved ones (or some of them anyway) and the best friends in the world!

Easter hunts on the beach and bonfires!

Lots of love

See you soon!

Shel