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I'm doing a German menu for DH for date night tomorrow evening. Thinking of doing a German sausage casserole, potato salad and maybe German style green beans. Anyone got any great German ideas/recipes for me ?

How do you communicate with your husbands,wifes,friends in the course of the work day? If I see they're on line I'll Skype them, if not I'll e-mail them - last resort is to phone them - and only if I need to know something immediately(most of my friends do the same). DH and I will only ever...

The whole family is coming for Sunday lunch. 12 people and all the men eat a lot so I have to cook a lot of food! My Mediterranean style menu is subject to what I could find on special:rolleyes: which was ground beef, chicken fillet and frozen mixed seafood so on the menu will be lasagna...

Does anyone have a great Manhatten Clam Chowder recipe ? And I have whole clams - how long before serving should I add them?

Over here we call it "Potjie Kos" which translate into "Little pot food" and it is just as popular as barbequing. Companies often have events like "potjiekos" competitions here for promotions etc and we have a yearly camping weekend with a "potjiekos" competition for all our friends. Even...

Now that I know how easy it is to make ! Made these wholewheat tortillas last night - they may look a bit "burnt" (must still practice a bit) but they tasted great. Much nicer (and cheaper) than store bought ones!

I never make dessert for only myself and DH - I'll only make it when we're having people over for dinner. When we go out for dinner we might share a dessert. I remember when I worked in the UK years ago the family I stayed with always had dessert (or as they called it "afters") every night of...

Has anyone ever made something like this before ? Not sure how the tequila and chocolate will go together . . .

I see most of the recipes for Jalapeno Poppers are for deep frying but I want to bake them (btw I've never made them before) I'm going to stuff them with cottage cheese mixed with cumin with maybe a bit of bacon on top(any other suggestion welcome :-)). How long should I bake them for - would...

Thursday is my dinner to make a surprise dinner for date night. I'm making a Mexican dinner which is DH's favourite cuisine. On the menu is : - Fried stuffed chillies in egg batter with cream cheese&cumin. - Homemade Wholewheat Tortillas - I have bought ready made back up tortillas for in...

I always read how superior it is to store bought mayo and finally made it last last week. I actually prefer store bought mayo. I don't think I did anything wrong in making it as I looked at a couple of recipes to determine the ratio of oil,eggs and lemon juice but it just tasted a bit too oily...

I read in a thread a while ago that cooking potatoes in chicken stock before baking it in the oven improves the flavour. I can't find the thread though. Can anyone tell me for how long I must cook it in the stock before I rub it with olive oil and salt and put it in the oven ?

There's very few dog rules in our house but the one rule is that they're not allowed to jump on the beds or couch. The past week our bulldog has slept on the couch every night (he jumps up after we've gone to bed and jumps off when he hears one of us coming down the passage but sometimes he's...

Do you have a song that always cheers you up when you're down ? Mine is "I would die 4 U" - Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution.

My staffie's eyes are blue on all photos these days. Any idea what I'm doing wrong ? Jake the bulldog's eyes are its usual color . . .

This afternoon I heard a woman screaming next door - our walls are high so I couldn't see what was going on but she sounded as if she was in trouble. I called the police (engaged) and then the flying squad and reported it. I then called the our neighbour who owns the house and told him what...

We have a lot of friends who moved from another province (I suppose state in US terms) and still cheer for the rugby team of the province they used to live in; even though they haven't lived there for years. I don't have too strong an opinion as I've only lived in one province my whole live...

I've just come back from filling up with diesel and doing our monthly grocery shopping and now feel like I need a very stiff drink.:ohmy: How do you economize (if you need to) with the rising gas and food prices? We eat out much less than we used to and when we do we'll choose less pricey...

where would you choose to live ? I'd choose Australia as it's a bit similar to South Africa in terms of climate, sports, way of life etc.so it would be easier to adapt (plus there's loads of other South Africans who have already emigrated (just as long as I don't have to convert completely and...

Just got back from holiday to the Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape a while ago and going through our photos. We got this one of an elephant and a tortoise drinking water together at one of the watering holes - the photo doesn't really capture it (as usual) but it was really cool to see !

This is a very popular Portugese inspired South African/Mozambican dish and one of our favourites. 2 tablespoon olive oil 1.5 pound steak cut into cubes 3-4 hot red chillies with seeds 4 cloves minced garlic 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup stock 1 cup red wine 1 bay leaf Bread Brown beef cubes...

I've gotten hooked on "Who's Wedding is it anyway?" on the True Style Network - don't know if anyone watches it. Seems according to the show (and I know it's a TV show so take it with a pinch of salt :-)) the average wedding is anything from $30 000 (considered to be a small budget) to $80 000+...

A lot of people I know throw perfectly good food out the next day because they don't like "old" or "warmed up" food. To me there's nothing better than a curry or a stew the day after you made it. We never throw food away(except every now again when I forget about something in the fridge and it...

Someone gave us a bottle of Moet for our wedding and we opened it on our anniversary. First time we've had french champagne(definitely not in the budget:-) and I was a bit disappointed. It was nice but not nicer than most of our South African Cap Classique sparkling wines (cap classique being...

Did anyone on here ever go to any of their shows ? We have "The Dance" in Boston(1997) and an earlier one from the 80's on DVD and it's our favourite DVDs of all times. We even had "And you say that you love me" as the opening song to our wedding last year. It's the only band we would have paid...