There’s a quiet little workhorse living in your bathroom – and no, it’s not your fancy hand soap or that perfectly folded guest towel. It’s your toilet brush. Not glamorous. Not Instagrammable. But absolutely essential. And here’s the thing: if you’re not cleaning your toilet brush, you’re undoing all your hard work every time you scrub the bowl. The problem with “out of sight, out of mind” A toilet brush does the dirty work, so it’s easy to assume it can take care of itself. It can’t. Left damp and unwashed, it quickly becomes a cosy home for bacteria, unpleasant smells and residue you really don’t want hanging around. The fix? A few simple habits that take minutes – but make all the difference. 1. Start with a proper…
Love chocolate chip cookies but don’t feel like scooping tray after tray? This choc-chip cookie dough pie is the ultimate shortcut dessert. Made with a store-bought cookie mix…
There are few things more frustrating than getting halfway through a recipe only to realise you’re out of breadcrumbs. You’ve already chopped the onions, seasoned the mince and preheated the oven. The last thing you want to do is dash to the shops for one ingredient. Luckily, you probably already have everything you need to make your own breadcrumbs at home. It’s one of the easiest kitchen staples to DIY, and it’s a great way to give stale bread a second life instead of throwing it away. What are breadcrumbs used for? Breadcrumbs do much more than coat chicken schnitzels.…
If you’ve ever opened a kitchen drawer only to find it crammed with gadgets you’ve used once (or never), you’re not alone. Somewhere along the way, we were…
Women’s Month Sunday Lunch Series celebrates Cape Town’s Women in Food and Wine This Women’s Month, Upper Union and Reverie Social Table will come together for an intimate Sunday lunch collaboration celebrating women at the table, in the kitchen and in the cellar. Hosted by Upper Union’s chef Amori Burger and Reverie Social Table’s chef Julia Hattingh, the lunch series will take place over four Sundays in August, with each lunch featuring a three-course menu (with a few surprise extras) and a female winemaker pouring wines selected for the occasion. Bringing together two Cape Town restaurants with distinct yet complementary…
Turn everyday vegetable odds and ends into a comforting bowl of goodness with this no-waste vegetable soup. Made with cauliflower florets, stalks and leaves, spinach stems, and stale…
Crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside and ready in just 15 minutes, these easy homemade waffles are the perfect way to start the day. Whether you keep it classic with maple syrup and icing sugar or load them up with fresh fruit, whipped cream, bacon or chocolate, this foolproof recipe is guaranteed to become a breakfast favourite. Also See: Pancake toppings galore: Delicious ideas to brighten up your mornings https://www.foodandhome.co.za/recipes/irresistible-pancake-toppings Feature image credit: Pexels
Butter is butter… until you’re halfway through a recipe and realise you’ve got the “wrong” kind sitting in the fridge. It’s one of those kitchen dilemmas that crops…
Bless containers and Tupperware – they help us with food prep, meal prep, and bringing home Mom’s curry. But as versatile as they are in the home, they can get stained and smelly pretty fast – leading to an expensive and drastic next step: being thrown away (hey, when that curry stain and smell from last Christmas just doesn’t go away, what else can a girl do?). The good news is that there are ways to salvage your stained and smelly containers – and you won’t have to spend money on harsh chemicals either. How to get rid of…
If you think about it, we spend a lot of time sleeping (or trying to). In fact, studies have found that we spend up to a third of…