We are coming up to the final leg of the Jewish Holidays. Sukkot is also known as Harvest Festival.  Beginning five days after Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and one of the most sombre of all the holidays, Sukkot is the opposite. It is the festival of rejoicing.  Sukkot is named after the booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew) in […]

Today’s post is unedited as I decided at the last second to write something about this Nation called South Africa. I apologise in advance for any mistakes made. The 24th of September is National Heritage Day in South Africa, it is also referred to as National Braai Day. For those reading this blog who do […]

2 1/2 cups warm water 2 packets of instant yeast 2/3 cups of sugar 3/4 cup of oil 1 Tbsp salt 6 eggs 10 cups of cake flour FILLING 1  cup sugar 1/4 cup of cinnamon 1/4 cup oil METHOD In a large bowl mix the warm water, eggs, oil, sugar, salt, and yeast. Slowly add […]

We got married in 1991 and it is 21 years since we moved into our very own new home. At the time, we had no children and, amongst our friends, we were the only married couple.  Being ‘Frum’ was relatively new to our Jewish community. First we lived in a beautiful, large 1 bedroom, 1 […]

I learned these 4 things when I didn’t do online shopping. Due to technical issues, I have had to post this blog unedited. Please forgive the grammatical errors. On a Facebook group I belong to, the topic of budgets came up and we started talking about the cost of groceries.  I have already worked out my […]

What does the expiry date really mean? The food monitoring people require companies to have expiry dates on their products to protect us. It doesn’t always work. So what do those labels mean? Food life SELL BY: This is actually not for the consumers but lets the retailers know how long something could be on […]

As part of my mission to declutter, I read blogs about decluttering, downsizing, minimizing, purging and the lingo that goes with cleaning up the mess that has taken up residence in my home over the last 20 years. Now I am following (sort of) the 15 minute a day method. It is a very good […]

It is Tisha B’Av, the 9th Av and observant Jews are going meatless for the build up to this terrible day in Jewish history, see my previous blog post “going meatless”. For today’s blog I decided to do a different blog post. Not on anything to do with saving money, getting organised or even cooking. […]

I have been really busy this week and got my days mixed up. I try and post to my blog on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, with short posts to the Facebook page every day. This week I posted to the blog on Wednesday! As part of the post for ‘going meatless’ I gave you Chef […]

With a lot of the world following the “Meatless Monday” trend and for the Jewish people the 9 days to Tisha B’Av (9th  Av)coming up, I decided to post a few meatless recipe ideas. The Meatless Monday idea actually started in America during WW 1, when the American government asked families to cut back on certain […]