Hansie's Kitchen

21/10/2026

25/09/2026

📍 Mangosteen, Southville
Absolutely love the Cotham location, but having closer to home is a game changer. The aubergine curry was unbelievably creamy, the sea bass was insane, and of course, I can’t leave without getting the Som Tam.

26/08/2026

Northern highlights ✨

1) The Stottie filled with pease pudding and ham, particularly this artisanal potato stottie, dense, comforting, delicious. I am already craving this for the impending Autumn!

2) Drake's fish and chips in York, family owned, crispiest batter with perfect salt:vinegar balance. We didn't intend to eat fish and chips in York, it was a quick snack box to tide us over and unintentionally became a highlight.

3) The Cross Keys Inn Tebay, views, sweet little play area, cocktails, nice food (tuna steak) and sports room. After having a couple of horrendous meals out when travelling up north this came as a right little slice of heaven when we started heading back south.

25/05/2026

Our first purple cauliflower is peeping through 💜

02/05/2026

We seem to be touring afternoon teas... The Pony did not disappoint! 👌

Delicious food, beautiful setting, decent price ✔️

02/12/2025

📍 Six by Nico
We went for the nutcracker meal. The food was lovely and it was very festive with a short walk to the Christmas markets afterwards 🎄🥂

27/10/2025

The first thing I ever posted to this account was my first sourdough loaf back in Jan 2019. Since then I've baked a bit here and there (mostly flatbreads nowadays) but it dwindled with a change to my working pattern and the price of electricity going up meaning we now, like many, mostly use the air fryer (am I right?).

My brother's-GF's-mother recently gave me some starter to get me back on my feet (thank you Karen!) and despite it almost dying after I abandoned it during a Summer holiday I have managed to bring it back to life feeding it fortnightly with dark rye.

With the clocks going back I put that extra hour to good use and whacked the oven on and baked the loaf, I then made the most of that heat and cooked a roast dinner and some extra pumpkin to prep for the week ahead.

The thing I enjoyed most was how much my boy loved it ❤️

I used dark rye to feed the starter (continuing this fortnightly)
Dark rye for the sponge (b**a?) which I left for 12-18 hours
Then strong white flour for the loaf dough.

26/10/2025

Lovely little brunch with the girls 👌🏼

27/09/2025

We made the apricot, almond & dark chocolate balls for after school snacks this week They were delicious and a nice change from peanut butter balls, I've frozen half for another week ☺️

08/06/2025

Lemon & blueberry breakfast muffins 🍋

From latest book
I cannot stop making her recipes, they are SO good.

These are great little after school snacks, with a good balance of protein and fibre.