Cook & Culture
We are adapting to new routines and taking up new essential exercise challenges during lockdown, we need it, especially with all the cooking and baking.
Make Easter extra special this year. Our goal is to keep ourselves and the family positive, healthy and happy.
Pro tip
Home office? Get stuck into work early, keep your desk organised and make a list of tasks and goals for the day. Don’t get distracted by endless scrolling online, set some limits. Stay in touch with your colleagues on WhatsApp groups. Laughter goes a long way, share some humour with friends and family groups.
Digital
If you are not a 100 per cent sure don’t share, that is my motto for now, with an insane amount of fake news, rather stick to news and communication from trusted news sites.
Have you seen it yet?
There is a positive culture worldwide and it is incredible. The legendary Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow is broadcasting its best classic opera and ballet performances from the so called “Golden Fund” for free. Subscribe to Bolshoi Theatre on YouTube.
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Family Easter
Make Easter extra special this year. Watch an Easter movie, do Easter theme crafts, decorate Easter eggs, have an indoor/outdoor Easter egg hunt, whip up Easter theme stacks, set up a beautiful Easter table and make the best-ever Easter lunch.
Easter cake idea
- Buy a ready-made vanilla cake, or a make-at-home box cake kit.
- Whip up white chocolate ganache icing and spread minimal frosting on the outside, exposing the cake layers for a naked cake style.
- Pick fresh thyme sprigs from your herb garden and twirl/interweave them to create two long pieces.
- Fold pieces in half and stick ends together into cake.
- Carefully cut a hollow chocolate egg in half on the join with a serrated knife.
- Decorate top with speckled eggs.
* White chocolate ganache
- 1/2 cup cream
- 1 cup (250g) white chocolate chips or grated white chocolate slab.
- Pour cream into a saucepan over medium heat.
- Heat until just boiling.
- Remove from heat.
- Add white chocolate chips or grated slab.
- Whisk gently until white chocolate chips are melted and blended into the cream.
- Let cool until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes.
Local is lekker
Local is your home, let’s keep it fun and amusing. Did you know you can run a full 42km during lockdown – well not all at once, but if you run 2km a day during lockdown, in your yard or around your living room, you will complete 42 km in 21 days!
Garden remedy
Start making your own compost, use an old bin (drill holes in the bottom or use a small section in your garden. Add leaves, and all the peels from your fruit and veggies, eggshells, nut shells and even shredded egg cartons to start this project.
Community stars
Shout-out to all the doctors, nurses, medical staff, laboratory workers, journalists, security, food and essential services workers all working during the lockdown.
Thank you, we appreciated your hard work.
Food for thought
There is always something to be grateful for.
Next in Cook & Culture we will be sharing a flavourful bunny chow recipe.
Bi-weekly by Annelette Bezuidenhout, a media specialist at Caxton local media.
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