by Lucy Corne | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog
Today is Shrove Tuesday. As a practicing Pastafarian, I’m not entirely sure what that means, but as a Brit it means pancakes! (Is that also the case for South Africans??) And what better way to make a pancake than by getting rid of the milk and replacing it with...
by Lucy Corne | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog
There’s a strange idea floating out in the world that beer is not a breakfast beverage. This is quite ridiculous – not only can you drink beer for breakfast (I suggest restricted this to weekends/non-working days), you can even make breakfast with the...
by Lucy Corne | May 13, 2015 | Blog
Beer and dessert can be a superb match – and it’s not just me that thinks so. Even Shakespeare wrote about ‘cakes and ale’ in the same sentence and if that’s not a recommendation for drinking a pint with your pud, then I don’t know...
by Lucy Corne | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog
One of the things I’m always keen to do is to make people realise that beer can be a delicate beverage; that it’s not just something to drink with a burger or a plate of fish and chips. So I was thrilled when Tanja Kruger, head chef at Majeka House’s...
by Lucy Corne | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
In an ongoing crusade to prove to people that beer goes with food just as well as even better than wine does, the blog will now feature recipes – some paired with beer, some cooked with beer, some paired and cooked with beer and all to be prepared with a beer in...