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Recipes for Love and Murder

MysteryCrimeDrama

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Mar 20, 20222 seasons18 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Maria Doyle Kennedy

Tannie Maria

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Kylie Fisher

Jessie September

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Tony Kgoroge

Khaya Meyer

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Seasons

Season 1

10 episodes

Premiered Mar 20, 2022

Season 2

8 episodes

Premiered Mar 3, 2025

Episodes

1–6 of 10

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Ep 1

Bereft Woman

Mar 20, 2022

45m

Tannie Maria Purvis has just lost her job as recipe-writer for the local paper so turns her talents to the advice column instead. One of the first letters leads her to an abused woman whose life may be in danger.

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Ep 2

Sex Cake

Mar 29, 2022

45m

Tannie Maria has grave doubts about the police's investigation, but is distracted by a lovelorn farmer who needs a little sweetness in his life. Jessie's drive for investigative journalism lands her and Maria in the middle of a shootout.

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Ep 3

Do You Lick Everything?

Apr 5, 2022

46m

Tannie and Jessie have some awkward questions to answer at the police station after another murder. Jessie's mother has a mystery at work that needs solving.

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Ep 4

Operation Vetkoek

Apr 12, 2022

44m

The community says goodbye to Lawrence and Martine's cousin arrives to take charge of her funeral. Maria and Jessie attempt to interview a befuddled Dirk and Maria uses mince to solve a teenage identity crisis.

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Ep 5

A Shoe Murder

Apr 20, 2022

48m

Tannie Maria and Jessie take their shoes off before they sneak into a house. Later She comes home and finds her missing shoes sitting on her front porch cut in half as a warning. She reports her murdered shoes to detective Khaya.

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Ep 6

Breakfast for Dinner

Apr 26, 2022

44m

Dirk and Anna drive the police to distraction. The town attends Martine's funeral but then there's a near death at the reception. Khaya and Maria share their suspicions.

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