Happy Friday!

Happy Friday, friends! May your weekend be splendorous, lazy, funfilled and crazy!

What's for Supper?!?

Hi Sugarpies!

This weekend I had time to make some fun dinner. I love cooking! :)

First up chicken and bacon kebabs, spiced up with my home grown spring onions (boy, was I proud of those babies!). If you want to try this recipe at home, my top three tips would be, one, coat your chicken properly with a nice variety of herbs and spices. I used a bit of originum and dried basil (that I dried myself - yay!), black pepper and Aromat.

Two, chop your chicken into quite large chunks, as they do decrease a little in size in the oven. Three, make a homemade marinade and leave the chicken in it for approx half an hour. My favourite marinade recipe is below.

Absolutely cover the cutlets in rosemary!
Two most complimentary flavours EVER!

Aaand zen, lamb cutlets with black olives, garlic and chilli on Monday evening. I made some mashed potatoes with chives, cinnamonny butternut rounds and carrots to go with. It was YUMMMAY! 

 

So my favourite marinade recipe goes like this... It's pretty simple.

About one and a half glasses red wine (I prefer Shiraz)

A few tablespoons of honey

Two or three big glugs of soy sauce (the dark and sticky type)

2 Tots brandy, 2 teaspoons brown/palm sugar, A bit of olive oil, black pepper and salt. Herbs that match the meat you are marinading, ie thyme or originum for red meat, rosemary and sage for lamb/mutton, etc

Mix all up, taste it to see if you are happy with the flavour, and soak your chosen meat in there!

Enjoy my pretties, I did!

Woza Weekend!

Hello babettes. And dudes too. :)

How was your weekend?

I had a pretty relaxed time, generally doing all the things one is dying to do during the week. I.e., nothing!

I had my first appraisal at work on Friday - man, was it nerve-wrecking! But I conquered and divided, walking away with a 20% increase, YAY ME! So I've been feeling pretty damn good since then. :) 

  

Boyfriend making creepy Mr Burns face

Overexcited on the Bus

On Sunday the BF and I tried out the new MyCiti bus that's been launched in Cape Town. Pretty smoooth. We took the route from Gardens to the Waterfront for five bucks each. That's right. Five Souf Efriken Rond. If you had to use other public transport to get to the Waterfront, you would pay about R15, and take two busses. So all in all, a pretty       schweet deal, if you ask me!

I wanted to sit at the back of the bus, 'cuz I'm badass like that, and ended up getting carsick. So there goes my Chola* image. 

Carsick Face

Whose been on the bus? What do you think? Drop me a line in the comments section. I know you want to!

Nighty night, fair readers

Xoxo

*Chola is Spanglish for lady Mexican Gangster - Booya!