Recipes by Jeanne Horak-Druiff (Page 12)

	A hot chilli sauce tasting - 5 sauces compared by Jeanne Horak-Druiff One of the things that has always fascinated me about the human senses is that you can never be entirely sure that you see, smell, hear, feel or taste anything precisely the same way as another person. An extreme example was a relative who is colour blind – where I saw all the seven colours of the rainbow, he saw… well I’m not sure…	1 vote 560 views
	Christmas pudding semifreddo with cinnamon streusel and brandy sauce by Jeanne Horak-Druiff As a child, I simply accepted all the traditions, decorations and food of Christmas as being normal. I loved the synthetic white Christmas tree that my mom put up every year, not because it symbolised a snowy tree, but because I thought the white…	1 vote 2052 views
	Sautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli by Jeanne Horak-Druiff One of the disadvantages of having our dining room in the conservatory at the back of the house is that there is no hiding your kitchen and your work-in-progress from your guests. I am inevitably in the kitchen when guests arrive and they either pop…	1 vote 514 views
	Sausage and cannellini bean gratin with kale and Parmesan by Jeanne Horak-Druiff In the late summer of 2010 we rented a villa on the Costa Tropical in Spain, near Almunecar (which turns out to be the source of every cherimoya fruit I've seen since!). The villa was gorgeous, perched high up on a hillside with a 180 degree view of the blue Mediterranean and spectacular sunsets to be enjoyed over poolside cocktails.…	1 vote 487 views
	Steak on a blue cheese, spinach & pecan risotto by Jeanne Horak-Druiff As I have said before, I do love a good simile. One of my favourite wine-related similes is this: Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. Sexist? You bet. Amusing? Every time. In fact, if…	1 vote 798 views
	All Star Lanes, Westfield Stratford by Jeanne Horak-Druiff Isn’t it funny how a single smell or sound can transport you instantly from the here and now into the way back when? For me, the smell of a certain air freshener whisks me back to Grahamstown in the early 1990s. I was staying in a motel on my own for two weeks, conducting the hopeless pro bono defence of a sullen and clearly guilty…	1 vote 676 views
	Spring greens with blue cheese by Jeanne Horak-Druiff Predictions. What is it about them that the human race simply cannot resist?? Nostradamus made a career out of making them. Generations of scarf-swathed women in heavy black eyeliner with cards or crystal balls or tea-leaves have made a good living out of them (or got condemned to death on account of being a witch - not a great…	1 vote 1087 views
	Chicken breasts in a mushroom marsala sauce with roasted beets by Jeanne Horak-Druiff I have a confession to make.And yet, and yet... I. Freaking. Love. Watching. Big. Brother. There, I've said it. I think it has to do with the fact that the first ever show took place in 2000 when I was living in the UK for the first time, and was…	1 vote 677 views
	How to make sloe gin - and a Sloe Lovin' cocktail for Valentine's Day by Jeanne Horak-Druiff So I heard that old zombie project Valentine's day was doing a circle-round again this week. Time was running our - I was where the rubber meets the road and I realised it was time to think out of the box and try to schedule some facetime with The…	1 vote 692 views
	Cream of celery soup and memories by Jeanne Horak-Druiff When I had to write and deliver the eulogy at my father's funeral nearly a year ago, I remember starting off by listing the things for which my father probably wanted to be remembered. He was a complicated and, in some ways, a vain man who would have listed his achievements as being a medical specialist; owning dozens of exotic cars…	1 vote 1249 views

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