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My 4th Anniversary Hub - Posted 2 Days After my Anniversary
An Anniversary, a milestone to remind you and remember, something that has happened and still happens in ones life, as long as the event/happening continues. A rather long winded way of saying I've been around here for a while!
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Home Economics - How to Save $'s.
Frugal living becomes a way of life, one must do what one can do to reduce waste without sacrificing the living standard if one can! Finding ways to stretch our income a little bit further without feeling the pinch.
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How To Make a Milkfree Carrot Cake
This is a remedy for those people who suffer from that malady! It is a pleasant tasting and a very popular line for me. Had to make 9 of these for various friends etc., all to be ready on Christmas Eve, it took some doing I can tell you as my oven...
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How to Cover Up A 'Oooops' - A Culinary 'Watergate'
A Gastronomic Catastrophe Arises as a New “Tea Time Titbit's” Now one of my favourite pastimes when I am sitting, either in a Doctors room waiting for an appointment or whiling away a couple of hours in a coffee shop being bone idle taking...
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Lactose Free Cakes - Milk Free Banana Bread or Cake
Lactose Free Banana Loaf Ingredients 250g White Sugar 250ml Oil 220ml Flour 2ml Salt 2ml Baking Powder 2ml Nutmeg 2ml Baking Soda 3 Eggs 500ml Banana Pulp 100g Pecan/Walnuts finely chopped Method Preheat the oven to...
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Close-Up's Odds & Ends
A photo gallery, no nudes, just some of the odds and ends the are captured by my Iris and Eye. Views of images around me.
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Photos Of People & Other Things ... Do YOU Use The Flash/Flash Gun Or Choose Not To Use
Using a flashing or not using a flash when taking a Photo. A bit of a photography lesson. Flash or not to Flash that is the question.
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Abstract Slice of Life Photo Contest
Photo Contest entry. A quick look at a sliver of photography.
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Childhood Extreme Sport In A Major Metropolitan Area # 1
How to spend your day careening down a grass embankment on a sheet of cardboard. A memory trip aided by a google map to review my old stomping grounds.
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How to Boil that Perfect Egg
A How to on boiled eggs, from sloppy to hard boiled. The Egg Saga unfolds. So carefully see how to take control and get it Egg-xactly right!
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Storm Brewing in Gauteng - Later Early Hours Next Day A Tornado Hits Free State South Africa
Hail storm building up, was that part of the masses of pressure that fed the tornado? Highveld thunderstorm, developing opposite to its norm.
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A New Style of Cooking At Just_Rodney
Cooking a steak at your dining room table, try a hot rock. Instructions on how to enjoy a hot rock.
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38 Year Old Starts Karate
Karate, starting to take self defence in the late 30's. A new look at what Karate can achieve.
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Karate - For Self Defence
Well this a real life story, set in South Africa, in a suburb of Edenvale, my eldest son was 15, my daughter 12, the youngest, also a boy was 10. My eldest came home from his primary school, in South Africa this was ages from 6 to 12 year olds. He...
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Mans Need For Aphrodisiacs - Where Have All The Rhinos Gone?
Mans supposed sexual pleasures and Gods creations must be decimated. Rhinos for sex enhancers? Realy?
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Your Digital SLR - Using Manual Mode
How to explore aand see other options on using your camera.Rather use your camerathan let it use you.
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Hints on Using Your $DR Digital Camera
Some interesting pointers in making your photos come out like the profesionals, Great tips on using your camera.
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How to Explore Your $LR Digital Camera - Its Options
This is a commentary on some of the reasons as to why people buy SLR gigital Cameras. Without exploring the whole gammut of digital photography.
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Your SLR Digital Camera or Should it Read $LR Digital Camara- How to Use It
Introduction to the expected costs of buying and using a Digital SLR Camera. A bit of humour on buying an SLR digital camera.
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Life of A River
The birth process of a river, its progress. The progress of life and ARE WE LEAVING AN EARTH HERITAGE?
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Life's Illusions
We CAN live in a Fortress Rodney Fagan The more time we spend living our life Through thoughts that are flashed on a network That we cannot see Nor perceive Establishing bonds of people we may never actually see From Continents far flung From...
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Tighten Ones Belt - How to Feed Your Family on a Shrinking Budget
A useful guide to make ccost savings in the kitchen, as tasty as possibe. A bit of planning, and culinary magic, for low budget eating, tasty and healthy.
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Is It Man's Given Right To Hunt For A Trophy?
All the great people in the world, have this God given right to hunt and shoot a variety of animals for sport. That is sport, a blood sport we do not need, in today's enlightened society.
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Epilepsy or 'Madness' Petit Mal - How Manage the Malady
How to accept and adapt to a lifestyle altering event.
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War Declared! The Entire Animal Kingdom Stands Firm.
Man,the male of the species, in his desire to maintain an erectio, for his pleasure, must destroy another species, The Rhino, so his 'horn' can stay strong.
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Happy New Year to All Hubbers
To all my 400 plus followers, and those casual hubbers who pop in and read hubs, and do not find what they have wanted. I am taking a short spell to post the Hub to all the friends and followers. To wish you all a safe and Peaceful Day, With...
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How To Empty That Brand New Tin Of Jam or "Doggie Tub" - With No Mess
Hi there, i was out for a birthday dinner, with some friends, This being the second meal out, well you are only 60 once. However, in defense of my belt size, I had ordered what I presumed was a light sized meal, which turned out to be a large bowl...
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To Braai or Not to Braai, That is the Question.
That Succulent Middle Cut Of A Matured Rump Caution This hub is for mature audiences and PG is recommended. So bring in parents and Grandparents to ensure maximum Parental Guidance while on this page. Some of the rituals have been excluded or...
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Conversions Tables
A selection of Marrows As I am normally writing about food and cooking I am therefore giving you the Volumes and Weights These conversions have been slightly rounded for easier measuring. Let us start with the Volume US = Metric 1/4 tsp = 1...
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Recipe For A Two Pot Vegaterian Casserole
I had arrived home after a long long night shift, my relief was an hour late, the hand over took longer than normal, as the night had not run smoothly. Major glitches with the run parameters,, which we had managed to fix, but needed reporting ...
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Insanity-Another Book in outline
Professor Gimble rose up from his chair, a fine figure of a man, with neatly trimmed beard and mustache, his full head of dark brown hair with white streaks at the temples, his open lab coat fron revealed a fashionable 3 peace Gucci suit, a bright...
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How to Make Comments or a Statement with a couple of Photos
A couple of old photos, a bit of new, some illustrations too. A zany look at a mix match of Images
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Is What You See or is it Seeing What You Are Told You See
I am sure every watches at least the high lights of the evening news, maybe while sitting and eating your take out or frank and beans, scenes flash before your eyes painting the pictures for you, going into great depths explaining, as to just what...
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New Style Cook Book
Hi there all my faithful Hub friends, I am now going to bend your eyes for a few minutes. I am busy with several cook books at the same time and doing a we bit of juggling and changing my mind. The reason for changing my mind is that I have...
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Starting Work My First Two Jobs
A view of the Northern side of town. My working life Part 1. I am a white South Africa who has been around for many years, some 59 I was educated at Parktown Boys High School gained my matriculation certificate in December of 1968. Grew up in...
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Ravensklip Later That Same Day
Chapter 6 He arrived at the school just as the twins came out of the school gates; they clambered excitedly into the back of his car, both babbled at the same time. “youwill neverguess whatstrange things are goingonin Ravensklip”, was the...
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The Hitherto Untold Story Of Ravensklip
Ravensklip The Untold Story A Novel set in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2008 A novel by Just_Rodney This is an outline of my proposed novel, I have quite a few chapters down already, the plot and how it should finish. Now the problem is to...
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Ravensklip Armed Robbery At A Restaurant
“Good grief, man, you are as jumpy as anything! What's wrong? What has happened? Is Lilly and Beatrice OK?” Thomas fired away questions to his obviously badly shaken and distraught neighbor “No they are fine, the problem is me and what...
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Ravensklip Tuesday Morning
The strident alarm of Thomas’s cellphone woke him from a deep sleep. He rolled over and fumbled at his bedside table and succeeded to knock his spectacles, cursed and found the offending cellphone set it to snooze, thus giving himself a ten whole...
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Ravensklip The Saga Continues
Chapter 2 Ravensklip Thomas Terrance, a widower, whose late wife had passed away seven years ago, lived together with his second wife, Ann and her mother, Barbara in a small, select and exclusively affluent suburb called Ravensklip, believed to...
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Ravensklip Monday Night
Chapter 3 Monday night They enjoyed their leisurely meal, the casserole accompanied with a fresh green salad and crisp homemade garlic bread, no wine as they were going out for drinks later on. The dining room faced west and they could see the...
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Ravensklip - A South African Novel
Early spring It was mid October, yet another Highveld spring day with the temperatures again reaching the early to mid twenties, with no rain forecasted to break this spring heat wave. The morning sun shone brightly into the neatly kept, suburban...
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Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
On Sunday I evening, while watching the evenings news, I was moved to tears as the footage of the Sixty Seven Minutes was being shown from around the world. Madiba, has again proved that statement "One Man can make a difference." Indeed he has made...
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Mixed Vegetable Relish or Achar, Tastey & Spicy Hot - The Recipe
How to make up a quick and easy HOT & SPICY VEGETABLE PICKLE, ideal as a spicy side dish. Tasty mixed pickles for your next Taco evening, works great with creamed cheese.
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Cutting an Onion Without Tears How To
One of the more effective ways of avoiding tears while slicicing or chopping onions. It is also succesful if you intend to grate tehe onions.
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Vegan Four Bean Salad - High Nutritional Value
This is a high protien meal on its own a good source of fibre. Rated as GL as low, and is good for diabetics and general weight loss.
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How To Have A Pacifists Potest Against Eco Disasters The Recipe
Before we can adopt measures to end an existing Eco disaster, we need to define what is a man made Eco disaster! From my viewpoint lets start of by defining a disaster Definition of an Accident or Disaster. Or using that sweet, sugar coated...
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Illusions or Delusions
Yes I know I started a hub, I wrote down the title and then had the whole plan worked out. But something strange happened on the way with this hub. It was one of those hubs, well after several false starts, I shelved it. Then as I reflected on my...
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Cash Strapped Solutions
When every thing is getting expensive and we really have to tighten our belts. This is not only temporary, or even localised, it is all around us, at home and abroad. This is not only affecting the poor, but also the top billionaires, have...
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Look What They Have Done To Our World Ma, Look What Have They Done
A social comment on man's destructiveness and general apathy to what is happening on this plant, An ECO Plea for cleaner earth. Look at how we have messed up paradise, destroyed Eden, all for the sake of a few Dollars more.
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Make Informed Choices - Updated
Yes the political arena has now moved from the Lamp posts, bus shelters and banners festooned on over head bridges. The unpaid solicitation and voting persuasion has hit us in our homes! This latest form of unpaid urgings and methods of try to...
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Now is it Spring Or Is It Autumn
Well here I am in the wee hours of the morning, pondering on the meaning of our existence, who we are as well as how we got there? Johannesburg South Africa, not 50 Kms away from where I am sitting at my keyboard, even less as the crow flies, is...
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The Recipe for Corned Beef and Carrots - Celibrating St. Patrick’s Day -
Silverside, a cut of meat located on the inside of the hind leg of an ox. A popular peasant dish, pickled and boiled. Served first hot, then left to be served as cold cuts.
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Visit Game Reserves Without Leaving Home
Well, living in South Africa has a lot of perks, as we are surrounded with Game Reserves, how ever this can be rather costly with the price of petrol, wear and tear on motor car, accomadation and the amount of time versus the time you can spend in...
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Humour in a B Cup - Boobs that are Almost Barely There To Double D's
Boobs neatly tucked away in the correct fitting Bra. Bras for all shapes and sizes, a humouress view of supporting the breast, of all sizes.
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Clouds & Reflections
Clouds, and some photos of them, they are for dreamers to stare at and see what they can see in them. Reflections the second part is the image herself looking at herself, a bit refectively.
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Chinese New Year - The Lion Dance a Part Of Tradition
My wife and I were invited to join my daughter and her son in law for a special buffet lunch as this was the last day of the Chinese New Year. We had to be at the restaurant a bit earlier, as there was to be a Lion Dance. We were ushered to our...
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Life With Goompy
For those of you that have seen my latest avatar, Goompy is that funny one on the right, yes the one with the long nose beard and mustache, that's right that really wild looking character. Now, on the other hand, the placid, little green feathered...
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Now what was that number?
I will not get into a long involved hub on those alpha particles, or is it radiation, then again it could actually be nuclear charged protons. All these have been examined and researched and even analysed to see if they do in any way affect and or...
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Golf ?(golfnow)! Now What Is Your Handicap?
Scotland may have redefined the modern game of golf, having taken it from the Dutch origins, however in my research, at the end of page 1 of search "origins of golf" There it was the entry for Ancient Asian origin of Golf, I followed the link...
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Giving Our Homes A Face Lift - Soon To Be Newly Weds, Spruicing Our NestS.
The Aganony and Ecstacy, of woring, cleaning, repainting of working on your own homes. The fun and joys, of preparing your first rented premises as about to be newly weds. Upkeep on your own home, the single most important asset.
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The Goompy A Red Neck Rules the Roost
It may come as a surprise to some, if not all of my fellow hubbers, but a magical transformatation has eased itself into our household. The agent of this transformation was a bundle of feathers, about 10 cm long, the day he arrived, it still had...
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Recipe for a Rump and Potato Bake How to Make a Real Super Supper
It was one of those days when you started out with a planned meal, when out of the blue, or should I actually say ominous grey clouds, along comes this totally unexpected obstacle which causes the entire meal plan to change. What was planned was a...
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A Recipe For Braised Liver With Onions
This is a couple of recipies for making a braised liver, supper or lunch. The one traditional, the other with a bit of a South african family twist, Enjoy.
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Triple layer Chicken Lasagna, to die for.
Lasagna an italian dish that is made up with layers of pasta sheets, meat, onion and tomato sauce, white sauce. Image 3 layers yes 3 layers of meat pasta and sauce. Topped with cheese & grilled.
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Chicken and Savoury Sausage Medly- Flashback Recipe
Many years ago, when all those great memories were were born, it was Sunday evening, the time that my Dad's took over the kitchen. Yes every Sunday night, he would walk into the kitchen, an hour or two later he would come out of the kitchen, with a...
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Saving The Change - That good old Fashioned Jam Jar
From the old times a way of budgeting, having different envelopes for all accounts, with the Jam Jar, for change and any savings. Rainy day fund, all in a large Jam Jar.
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Saving - In The Modern World
A guide to cut back on expendature, and begin to save money.
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Portrait Gallery Of Just Rodney
These are some of my more serious photo studies that I have taken recently. The occasion my daughters betrothal. Stacie Taryn Stacie and Taryn The Bride to be The wedding being witnessed The Second Witness Husband and Wife The sun shone...
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There is a Indian Ring Kneck In My Kitchen,
As Suggested By Sixtyorso (Food Critic, and Gastronome, cook) Goompie, Just_Rodney and the kitchen prepare for Christmas. How's that for a hub title in the current hubmob? And Egged On By Mistyhorizon2003 (must be a choreographer, especially...
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The Hubs Pinup Girls
Well, one cannot live by bread alone, he needs those added spices to enhance the pleasures of life to make the bread a bit palatable. Not so! I have seen, enjoyed, and even commented on some of the hubs that I am a fan of. So I thought about...
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My Ring Neck Arrived To Roost
Well I had published a hub a couple of weeks ago, about the impending arrival of my Ring Neck, which was one of those items on my personal "Bucket List", yes it had taken a long time to for this to be realised, and alas this nearly did not happen....
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The How to Green Your Garden Manual
When I grew up we always live in High Rise Flats or Apartment buildings, and we did not have to bother about gardens. My father, who was the Superintendent for the most part, in these blocks of flats that we stayed in, there was not much of a...
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Low Fat High Protien - Four Bean Salad for vegans
A great way of having a high protien, Low GI meal, with a fare amount of starch. Healthy beans and chickpea combination for a balanced light lunch.
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The Thousand Rand Cat
The One Thousand Rand Cat Being a pet owner can be a very expensive undertaking. I need to go back to the year 1982, when this saga with a plain grey tabby tom cat named "Macavity", yes my first wife named him after that classic poem. Friends...
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A ligh hearted statement of "Some Times It Is Accepable To Use That "F" Word"
A look at contrived photos, which had been created by "authers unknown ", this email, was altered, and turned into a subtle protest about that, all to popular verb"F#@&"! This a light hearted Hub.
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Making Space For a Ring Neck
Great excitement and a whole lot of changes going on at present in our household, as we now anxiously await the arrival of our latest family member. Why the excitement you may wonder, Simple, ever since I was a little boy, I have always, wanted to...
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When did Halloween Start - Pagan Festival Without Costumes not Nude
A look at the origins of halloween, or All Hallows Eve, as the Christian Relegions observe. Dispelling the myths of witches cavorting around ind the moonlight totally naked.
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Settings for Seduction a How to!
During that "fun" time that I had, during What-Happened-to-a-Month-of-my-Life which resulted in numerous visits to Doctors, Radiographers waiting rooms, that I had inadvertantly been exposed to so much propaganda about female issues on...
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Tai Chi Chuan is Good Training - Weight Loss
Tai Chi is an ancient art of exercise, that enhances ones breathing balance and health, it has zero impact on your body.The long term benifits is increased health, vitality, body toning and prolonging sexual activity. It is also a means of self defence, which is secondry to its original purpose. It...
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How to Improve your SexLife - Recipe for Healthier Life
Tips on how to improve your Sex Life, understanding some of the inhibitors that prevent you from total enjoyment. No artficial stimulants, plain guides to improve your health and therby enhancing your Sex Life.
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Potato Salad a South African Version
One of the many and varied ways that tis noble dish can be prepared. This time with the Soth African touch. Tried and tested!
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A Recipe From South Africa on How to Make A Crustless Milk Tart
South African Melktert, or Milk Tart, this is a recipe for a crustless version which has become the vogue these days! Still the most popular fete or kermis dish. With or without the crust or korsie.
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A Recipe for Frosting/IcingThe Cake High Calorie Intake
Yes I am talking about all of you out there, who love cake, but need that frosting as well. Truly a good cake is complemented with the correctly balanced bit of frosting, however there are several cakes that are not traditionally, or should I say...
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How to Make a Cake Using Fruit Yoghurt - A Tasty Light Cake
It sounds strange but yiu can make a cake using fruit yoghurt. A quick and easy cake which is very simple to make, a 12 year old coul make it.
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How to make A Vegan Rice Salad - The Recipe
Its summer, and too hot to schlep into the kitchen for too long. So you scoot around your organic vegetable patch and pluck the greens, that is if you are that organised! I am not, so I have to get my greens from reliable green crocer who does...
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Organic & Vegan Mushroom Pate Recipe
Mushroom Pate Ingredients 250g of button or brown mushrooms 1 large onion 1 clove of garlic 2ml of mixed herbs 2ml of parsley 15 - 20ml of Olive or About 15ml of chickpea flour And 25ml of filtered water Non-iodated sea...
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How To Make An Irish Stew (Mutton/Lamb) From An Old Fashioned Family Recipe
Irish stew, that mutton or lamb stew that is thich with cooked potat, onions and carrots slow cooked and served withh thick slices of soda bread. Tennant farmes cooking at its best, today served as a winter treat in some ares.
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A Recipe for Poached Eggs - and Spinach.
A healthy recipe for hat free poached egg breakfast. Poached eg and spinac, an ideal helthy start to the day.
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What Are They - And How to Make Spicy Cheese Straws
Cheese straws come in many shapes forms and sizes, some are simple, some a bit ore difficult. This is one of the easier ones and is relatively quick to prepatre. Enjoy.
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How to Make Those Deep Dish Pies (Use this Recipe)
There used to be a very French Patisserie in downtown Johannesburg, which ran for many years. It was a firm, favourite venue for a lot of company's social clubs, advance booking was essential, we at our company used to go there at least once a year...
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A Modern 4o Years ago - South African Ghost Story in Hillbrow
Hillbrow, Johannesburg some 40 years ago, a young life plummeted down onto a cement courtyard, my father in an act of compation, covered her with a blanket, to prevent people gawping at her earthly shell. There is also a brief description of my world at the tender age of 13.
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Recipes for Vegan Dips (With Black Eyed Peas/Beans - Chick Peas) And Corn Chips How to Make
A must for any Vegan Party Platter, especially if you like pate's! A tasty mixture of both black eyed peas/beans and chick peas, this in the form of a tasty and healthy dip. This is also designed for a truly vegan party platter. The Corn chips are Vegan as well!
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Exercise For Life and Life For Exercise
While writing the Naturopathic Cook Book, I was asked to include a section on exercise and how to recuperate from post traumatic stress,as well as how to handle depression. This, at that stage, I did not feel that I was able to include in the book,...
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How to Make Vegan/Organic Spinach Pesto with a Gucamola Dips to be served with Melba Toast.
If your a Vegan or simply an Organic food lover, here is a recipe for a Spanach Pest and as a bonus, have added a recipe for Gucamola dip, great as starters or a quick snack!
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The Best Recipe with Pork Neck, Bean and Dumplings Stew - By Far
A heart warming meal, using Pork neck, Haricot Beans and lentils, with a savoury dumpling to round it off. A twist to the Irish Stew, use Pork, add a couple of dumplings.
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How To Make A French Omelette or omelet
How to make a one egg per person omelette, light and fluffy with indiudual toppings. Geat easy meal for hungry kids and starving husbands.
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Vegan Recipe - How to Make a Chickpea & Pumpkin Curry
Some of favourite recipes, a winter stick to your bone type of stew, meatless, yet high in protein and a Low GI. Eating both Vegan and Natural. Mix up your own curry spice.
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Photographic Images Where?
Electronic Photograph Hub! No thank you, This is not another of those long hubs page after page of nubile images, seductively posed, airbrushed images that scroll on for what feels like eternity, interposed with those cute comments on their...
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Recipe for Curried and Pickled Fish - How To Make
A simple tasty batter fried fish in a homemade curried and or oickled fish recipe for your fish, guaranteed a success. Pickled fish, once the kids have tasted yours, they will not want to have take out or canned pickled fish again, this is a a budget beating recipe.
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Chicken Schnitzel - How To Make it Perfectly
The ultimate recipe for a chicken breast, crumbed and pan, or deep fried. This is ia a quick and easy way of preparing this, from naked breast to cooked perfection in a matter of minutes. The king of healthy fast foods, a succulent crumbed and cooked to perfection.
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Traditional English Style Battered Fried Fish
Wjere would a recipe book be without Fried Fish, this Battered fried sor is no exception. Greate eating, high on cholestrol.
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A cure for Colds and Flu - Onion and Garlic Soup Vegans & Added Bonus Intro To Naturopathic Life Style
A soup, that will help you fight the colds and flu. A salad, healthy, that helps you build a resistance to fight colds and flu. Eating for good health. Natural antibiotic flu fighter!
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What Happened to a Month of my Life
Hernia repair, having a mesh put in the"joys" of rejection, when having a hernia repair operation snd something goes wrong, this was only the start, I have a goodly supply of the epic saga continuing.
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Johannesburg - South Africa my Early Years
Yes, here is another South African sharing his normal, or average working day with all of my fellow Hubbers. I live and play mainly in the Johannesburg area, as you have seen from my profile I am a bit of an extrovert and enjoy cooking, photography...
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A Selection of my Photogaraphs
A summary, of what I lioke doing, a bit abstract, a statement here a glimpse of humour there. The mechanical Iris A view of my own eye.
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Recipe for Hot & Spicy Sausage Soup - How To Make
This is a winter type soup, that is designed as a meal on its own when served with hearty slices of thick fresh bread. This soup was first served to my family just after I returned from hospital, having had some abdominal surgery, for the 2nd time...
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Vegan Recipes - How To Make An Egg Free Apricot Mayonnaise & ChickPea Burgers or Shwarmas
Want to free your taste buds? Enjoy the natural way of eating - no meat or meat by products, just plain helthy vegetables. Not just salads and raw vegetables, but a whole range of true meatless and eggless recipes.
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How to Make Homemade Brawn a Family Recipe
Memeories from childhood, frugality a its best. Makiing use of scraps to produce a three different tasty treats. Lessons fro the 50's which my father had learned in in the 30's when frugality was the order of the day.Make your own cold meat from buying large quantities at the meat market, getting...
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Clouds and the Images we can See in Them
A thunderstorm was brewing behind the craggy outcrop of rocks, this was when I experienced my favourite memory, it was the best cloud shape that I had seen, and wonder if I would see something so spectacular or similar again. This occurred,...
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How to Make Old Fashioned Frikkadels - The Recipe
One of my all time favourites, bothe to eat and to make, Frikkadellen, those meatballs of various sizes. Served up in so very many ways, a dish that becomes a firm family favourite!
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Recipe for Steamed Leek and Onion Suet Pudding
A recipe using Suet crust, these wete very popular ways of spreading a meagre amount of meat and vegatables for a large family. They were developed in the colder climates as the high starch and fat contents helped keep you warm, burning calories.
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The Revised Recipe for Home Made Butter Cookies - How to Make Homemade Biscuits/Cookies
A simple recipe for make tasty real butter biscuits or cookies. How to make a batch of biscuits using a few simple ingredients, no preservatives.
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Steak and Kidney Pudding a Family Favourite
How to make a homemade traditional steak and kidney pudding. Traditional suete crust, steak, kidney and rich brown sauce, makes up that splendid King Of Puddings!
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Simple Economics - a Child's Impression
Way back when I was very young, the government over and above deciding to change our identity by becoming the Republic Of Southern Africa, then had to fiddle around with not only our currency, but also our units of measure. This was the birth of...
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How You Can Save Water and or Recycle it
On reading HubSub Urban Mom's Hub on draught in California, I am reminded of the plight we in South Africa have every so often, as in the bible sometimes we had that seven year spells. Even if we are not susceptible to draughts, that is no excuse...
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Cutting Expences - That Breakfast Egg Muffin - Home Made!
An honest to goodness home made muffin and egg, bursting with goodness flavour and that secret ingredient - care! Another guide to cost savings in tough economic climate
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Do the Games Children Play - Guide their Future
While in primary school, age group Five and a half year old to Thirteen year old, were we, unbeknown to us already being formed and molded,into what we would become in later life? no not by the education system, but by our interaction with each...
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The Photographs of Just_Rodney
A summary and vignette of some the types of photos I enjoy. What happens in the world around me, captured digitally, mostly natural, no posed photos.
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Kleftiko (Slow Roasted Lamb Shanks)- South African Style and a Hearty Vegie Soup
Klefitic or roughly translated "Stolen Meat", this was a common way of stealing a goat or a sheep. Slaughtered and cut into small bits, placed in a pot and left to cook in an anthill, or any other clay recepticle for the entire day. Unearthed and feasted on.
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Censorship - is it alive and well
Buffey Sainte Marie, A native Indian American Folk singer was put out of business by the then Government of the US of A, why? Censorship of Buffey Sainte-Marie - According to Wikipedia She has claimed that she was blacklisted and that she, along...
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Recipe for Pasta Arrabiata Modifed for Vegan
A pasta Arrabiata quick and easy type of recipe.
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Johannesburg - This is my world. The City in within which I spent the first 22 Years of my life.
This is the city in which I grew up in, although not born here, My formative years and earliest memories are of this city. My schooling and vast periods of my working life was within in this city, I have lived within this city and also a nearby...
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Hot Beetroot and Baby Potato - a Salad
When I was on a holiday in Dublin, in the summer of 2002, during the World Cup, I came upon a pleasant little restaurant near Trinity College where I was confronted with salad. It appealed to me because it contains my two great gastronomic...
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An Organic Salt - spice up your meals
A quick and easy way to spice up any dish that requires a touch of salt. This is adds a nice fresh taste with a bit of zest to your homre cooking. Ingredients Zest of a lemon 5 to 10ml of fresh Rosemary 10ml of non-iodated Sea salt Course...
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How to Cook (Make) - Stiff Porridge (Maize Meal)- A South African Favourite Recipe for Grits
How to make putu, stuiwe, polenta porridge or Grits as it is known in the US of A. This is done in a microwave oven. Stuiwe pap in under 10 minutes using a microwave, no messy pots to clean.
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Recipe For How To Make Your Own Organic Mayo/Mayonnaise Traditional or With A Twist
The homemade Mayo saga, it is so quick and easy to make your own mayo. How to make a healthy tasty Mayo with suggestions for 4 interesting additives.
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How To Make Chez Rodne` ~ Homemade Chili or Chilli Relish- A Franchise Proposition
Chilli, or Chili, with onins, and spices,taht perfect relish for hot dogs. This recipe will keep you coming back for more.
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Hot Pasta Salad Vegan
An ideal light light lunch or dinner, fun and quick to make. 1 batch of Hand Made Pasta follow link for homemade pasta, use the vegan version if you so wish 1 fresh lemon Extra Virgin Olive Oil about 50ml or to taste Non-iodated sea salt and...
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Home Made Pasta With a Chilli/Chili Sauce - Vegan Friendly
A recipe for using homemade pasta, with a diavalo ( devil's ) sauce either as starte to a main meal, or as a main course, only the size of servings differ.
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Fresh Home Made Pasta Vegan Version Included
Makes sufficient pasta for 2 to 3 people, this will vary with what recipe you use. If you to make a larger quantity, you need to double or treble the mixture. It takes a bit of time and a bit of practice, as well as a steady hand, however the end...
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Cooking 101 For Teenagers -Ice Cream and Shortbread - Recipe on How to Do It
This is a very tasty treat that does not take to much time to make, and will definitely be a firm favourite in your house. Maximum fun as you only have one bowl, your Swiss roll baking pan, a fork and a knife to clean up afterwards. Makes about...
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Hub Pages that Secret Society
Then, upon opening an email, all was altered, and that which had been planned from the day before was moved to simmer on the back burner. The email had a link to Bonnie Ramsey's latest hub on the History of the Cherokee, this sent me back on a...
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Cooking 101 For Teenagers & Recipes for Kids - On How To Make Easy & Tasty Muffins and Date Loaf!
How to start your children off with following simple cooking recipes. Cook some Muffins for tea, using actual ingredients, not prepackaged box types of mix.
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Health Rusks a South African Treat - This is a Recipe for a Healthy Rusk
Rusks, a modern version of the sea bisuits which the Dutch sailors, and most probabably all the saiing ships carried in the 1600,s. A twice baked bread or biscuit. This was the staple diet of the seafarers diet,that and the barrels of apples that were carried on board at every port!
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That Perfect Eisbein - Crisp & Golden Brown
A pickled and smoked pork hock, the skin grilled it to a golden brown brittly crunch. Served with mustard sauerkrauet and boiled potatotoes. A German Speciality.