Sunday (Cooking) Reads

Happy Easter!! Our Lord and Saviour is risen

• Coffee and Walnut Loaf
• Butternut squash salad
• Various winter soups
• Chicken yassa (braised chicken with caramelised onions)
• Healthy salad dressings
• Black bean tacos
• Tuna salad

Sunday Reads

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• 17 mess-free summer craft ideas for kiddos (because we know that schools are closing for the year)
• … and more ways to keep them entertained at home.

• Tips for those of us who will be flying with kids over the break.
• Packing light when travelling with kids.
• Dental tips for little people from Instagram Dentists.
• At-home date night ideas.
• Sharing the mental load with your partner. #2 and #3 are my personal faves and something that I am trying to include in our set up.
• The importance of praying when you don’t feel like it.
• Now I want to move to a new city and start over.

Recipes

• Warming whiskey cocktails
• Cooking black beans and black bean enchilladas.
• Other bean recipes
• Chicken enchilladas.
• Poached eggs, Yummy
• Lunch wraps
• I’m always here for pretty salads like this one with beets and goats cheese.
• Roasted vegetable pasta

Sunday (Cooks)

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• Crispy Chickpea Rice Pilaf
• Home-made ice cream recipes
• Simple jeera (cumin) rice
• Sugar bean curry
• More chicken recipes
• Mediterranean White Bean Salad
• Harissa-Braised Eggplant
• Pesto Shrimp Pasta
• Roasted Vegetable Baked Penne
• I love a good mac and cheese
• Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
• chickpea and kale shakshuka

Some meal prep help is alway helpful

Lockdown Lesson II

Do not trust a recipe that asks you to to make meatballs with quinoa. NEVER EVER AGAIN!!

Sunday Reads

• The power of connection and being bold to ask for something
• Raising bilingual kids
• The pressure to exclusively breastfeed is hurting mothers’ mental health
• Rethinking efficiency and productivity in meetings
• Really thinking through each critical step of decisions you have to make
• Fish and Chips shops in Joburg

Recipes

• chickpea and kale shakshuka
• Meatballs with any type of meat
• … another meatball recipe
• cooking with zucchini

Sunday Reads

• How to get kids to read more.
• Miscarriages are never easy to talk about.
• Traveling with kids and toddlers 
• Imagine being married for 64 years and then getting sweet anniversary shots.
• This TEDTalk made me realise I need to let go of a certain friendship

 

Recipes

• How to make Ice cream, yum
• Some more ice cream recipes
• Lemony Artichoke and Quinoa Salad
• Blueberry Ginger Sorbet

Sunday Reads

• “The story I’m telling myself…”
• It breaks my heart that kids go home sans any clothes
• Making ice cream with your toddlers.
• I thought this video announcing their pregnancy reflected my own journey

Recipes

• Soy Glazed Eggplant
• I want to bake this cake

Sunday Reads

Source

• Traveling with baby …. we have a little trip planned later next month so. …
• I LOVED this book, please read it!!
• What Every Grandparent Needs to Tell Their Grandchildren
• I love these breastfeeding tips for new mothers.
• Making time for all the things that you need to as a parent.
• Truly the Victor dictates history

Recipes

• Dessert Recipes Starring Greek Yogurt
• Yum for these potatoes, schlurpppp!

 

Sunday Reads

• The lies parents tell to keep peace and sanity around the house.
• May the Church of God continue to stand strong always.
• Just read a bit of the Word, regardless.
• This little baby made my day.
• These lessons can easily apply to any new job.
• Oh New York how much I love thee

Recipes

• Cilantro Lime Dressing
• More pasta recipes
• Must try this: Blueberry Ginger Sorbet
• Chicken breast recipes
• Chickpeas stew

Sunday Reads

• I loved this story of how food bridged the gap between the mainstream culture and “the other”.
• Relating your faith and child discipline.
• I loved Asma Khan’s episode of Chef’s Table.
• I love a good playlist and have gotten started on this one.
• This teacher deserves an award.

Recipes

• 10 Cozy and Quick to make Vegetarian Dinners 
• Some more potato recipes

Sunday Reads

• RTWT – Read The Whole Thread
• I suppose middle class parents mean well but the cost of intensive parenting is rather steep.
• Loved the reasons that kids threw tantrums, so hilarious but i suppose not for the parents.
• I want to check out this Art bar in Braamfontein.
• Being a good friend at all times is quite tough but beneficial.
• An ode to female friendships

Recipes

• 10 Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes
• Banana Bread Muffins
• We all need some quick weekday or actually, in general recipes
• Some more pasta recipes.

Sunday Reads

• How do you talk to kids about attacks on their faith?
• Economics meets theology, I love it!
• How to Discern God’s Will in Your Workplace
• I pray for strong faith like this Chinese Pastors‘.
• In case you are looking for some book inspiration …
• …. also how to get more reading done.
• I love it when Economics solves an actual problem.
• Enjoyed the writing not so much the subject of this profile.
• This Humans of New York story just broke me.

Recipes

• Yummy enchiladas
• Braised chicken thighs
• Spicy Coconut Vegetable Stir Fry
• Overnight Oats
• 15 Citrus Recipes
• Roasted Cauliflower and Quinoa Salad
• I want to eat these mashed potatoes …
• … but I am definitely making this Cauliflower and Chickpea Masala.

Sunday Reads

Chronic Flex

A condition in which someone feels compelled to constantly bring things that make them look good in casual conversation. It can be the same thing every time or a variety of things; as long as the subtle or obvious aim is to make themselves sound or look cool, it’s a flex, and if it happens all the time, it’s chronic. It’s most obvious when a detail is tossed in that is really unnecessary for any other purpose than flexing.

haunting

A variation of ghosting, in which the ghoster continues indirect contact with the ghosted by liking and faveing his or her social media content.

• How do you talk to kids about attacks on their faith?
• FOMO and the Christian.
• Isn’t this so cute of Prince Charles?
• Representation is everything.
• How do chefs work around their own food allergies while at work?
• Women and emotional labour
• Food unites immigrants
• Racism and poverty are systematic.
• Male friendships are not always easy to understand or appreciate.
• Not sure what must be done so the Gun problem in America is fixed.
• We all have stories of the first night you met your in-laws.

Recipes

• I made this lentil recipe this past week, YUM!!
• Some more pasta recipes.
• I love cooking with pumpkin

Sunday Reads

• Love how this father dealt with the loss of his wife.
• Is African philosophy a misnomer?
• We recently studied the relationship between Ruth and Naomi.
• Some podcast recommendations.
• I loved this post and all the comments.
• I want to check out this restaurant.

Recipes

• Swedish meatballs

• Apple Cider Braised Chicken

Sunday Reads

• I struggle with a proper Christian view of comfort.
• Planning a trip to Greater Nairobi?
• How not to parent.
• For those that have people in their lives that don’t read but want to get started.
• What happens to your body when you stop drinking alcohol?
• When you are serving looks.
• Visit Joburg’s Little Addis.
• Facing the future with God.
• The more I read about it, the more I think America is like any other African country 😦

Recipes

• One Pot Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta

• Roasted Yam & Collard Green Enchiladas

Some Recipes to Try

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• Nine great lentil soups
• Garlic Rosemary Masala Fries
• Curried Red Lentil Hummus
• Delicious Vegan Pasta Recipes for Weeknights
• Cooking with butternut
• … and more butternut recipes here

Sunday Reads

• What does prophecy look like today?
• How the Spirit draws a child.
• I generally like this blog but this post was tone and culturally deaf.
• This story of police neglect was heartbreaking.
• Loved the explanation behind Mummy Brain.
• I love bananas, here’s how to cook with them.

Sunday Reads

• Would you keep a journal of all your failures?
• Why is Cape Town so cliquey?
• Please read this post on church planting and then listen to This America’s Life podcast on the same.
• I’d also love to know my family history but what if it yields such a negative story?
• How did you know your person is the one?
• Each of us has elements of being a people pleaser.
• …. because I love talking about #2’s
• This list talks of the world but glaringly omits Africa.
• I love these book club recommendations and the fact that I have read so many of them already. Nice!!

Recipes

• Quick weeknight dinners coz we all need those at some point or another.
• I love potato salad but I hate the creaminess of mayo and that’s absent in this recipe.
• Another yummy pasta recipe.
• .. and another set of recipes.
• Blueberry ice cream for the soul.

caucacity 

Something done with the audacity of white privilege.

An act showing little compassion towards people of color.

 

Sunday Reads

• On being young, overeducated and struggling to find employment.
• How do you pick yourself up after failure?
• Faith in the workplace.
• For those looking to get married, here is an ebook you can enjoy as you prepare yourself.
• Lost and found in Tokyo.
• How you can help refugees in your town.
• A Tour of Johannesburg Food Trucks

• This DIY Bath tray seems so easy to make, sigh!
• Podcast recommendations.

Recipes

• Raspberry, white chocolate ice cream pops
• Tamarind and Ginger Glaze Chicken Wings.
• Stuffed tomatoes.
• Cooking with breadcrumbs.
• Toasted Oats ‘n’ Spice Make Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream

Sunday Reads

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• This advise for young college graduates still resonates.
• … this too.
• Some questions to ask as you interview.
• God calls us to be faithful not successful.
• I have thought of starting a podcast with a pal *sigh*
• Things to do around my new hood.

Recipes

• This is so odd of me but I really want to have a party with a cheese plate 🙂
• Artichoke & Quinoa Vegetarian Enchiladas
• Quick Vegan Enchiladas with Sweet Potato Sauce
• A fail proof way to make sorbet.
• Love this chocolate cake recipe.
• A pasta salad with roasted carrots and sunflower seed dressing
• This coffee recipe sounds yum 🙂
• Vegan Panna Cotta recipes