Pure Temptations

1. Name 3 vegetables you really really dislike (hate is such a strong word):

Sweet Potato, sweet potato and more sweet potato – in fact I dislike it so much that I won’t eat anything that has actually touched it on a plate

2. The kitchen appliances/gadgets you wanted the most, and hardly use now you’ve got it: 

My terracotta roasting dish – but only because I’m terrified that it’s going to get broken and I can’t replace it! - I desperately want a bread maker at the moment 

3. Favorite Wine (cellar/ type/ color will do) 

Wine – Red and alcoholic.  My most enjoyable easy drinker has got to be Sandor – which a friend had here in the UK.  Don’t know where she gets it from and she won’t tell. After growing up on a wine estate – I’ve been lucky enough to be exposed to so many different estates that it would be difficult to chose just one but  I absolutely love my Cab Sav  

4. What is one of your worst childhood food memories?

Being forced to eat sweet potato one Christmas and spending hours at the dinner table – whilst everybody else got to open presents – just because I wouldn’t eat it.  Needless to say – a bit of starvation, a little mould and I won the war that my parents waged.  Never eaten it again

5. If a craving/muchies strike, what would it most likely be for and what would you do to get it: 

 Flings or cheese curls – my ultimate to die for snack. 

6. Strangest thing you’ve ever eaten (foreign and/or frightful): 

Haggis – Minced sheep and pig offal stuffed in a sheeps stomach – AWESOME!!!!!!!
and Black Pudding – dried pigs blood in sausage form

7. Do you ever buy ingredients, having absolutely not clue what to do with it? 

No – I always know what I’m going to do with what I buy.  I will try new ingredients but only if I have some idea of what to do with it

8. Do you have any Obsessive and/or Compulsive behaviours in the Kitchen, name a few!! 

According to my husband, I’m a perfectionist.  Everything has to be just right or the same as the image in my head.  He says I keep adding until I get it right – no matter what anybody else says

My kitchen has to be spotless before I do anything – if it means that I have to clean it again – then I will

My kitchen has to stay clean – nothing spilt on the counters – otherwise it freaks me out

Spillages on my stove – the quickest way to get me annoyed – My stove has to sparkle at all times

My herbs and spices must be int he right spots – heaven forbid I have to look for any of them.

I could be here for hours – so I’ll stop before you all think I’m totally insane

9. Name one thing you would like to have in the kitchen 

A decent set of knives – I used to have a set until a friend of my husband’s decided to sharpen them with an angle grinder – such an idiot!

A bread maker is on my want list at the moment and a titanium food processer that would cost my husband £500.00 (just over R5 000.00) – It’s absolutely gorgeous

10. If life was like box of chocolates, which chocolate would you choose? 

I’d bypass the chocolates and go for the flings