January 2005

Featherbed eggs for EoMEoTE#3

January 30, 2005

Isn't it funny how tastes differ (or how men and women differ, depending on what lesson you choose to learn from the following anecdote!).  When I say I am making pasta and tomato sauce for dinner, I will choose a nice wholegrain pasta and boil it with a little oil and quite a bit of [...]

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Announcing the End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza #3!

January 28, 2005

Well, as the more astute readers may have noticed, there is a shiny brand new logo in the upper left corner of this blog (thanks to Anthony of Spiceblog for that!!) – the EoMEoTE official logo!  For those of you who have not heard about this most exclusive of blog events, it’s a little something [...]

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WWBW#5 – Fairview’s Goats do Roam in Villages

January 26, 2005

At last the turkey leftovers have been finished, the streamers have been swept away and it’s time to get on with the business of 2005 – and the blog events start rolling again!  We’ve already had the first Is My Blog Burning? for the year and now it’s time for the first Worldwide Wine Blogging [...]

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Boereboontjies plus easy sausage & bean casserole with herb dumplings for IMBB #11

January 23, 2005

Family legends – there's nothing to beat them.  All those catchphrases, anecdotes, made-up words and in-jokes that form the glue that bind together a group of people across the miles and across the years.  Our family seems to be a particularly rich source, possibly because we have more eccentricity per square chromosome than most (!), [...]

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The camera loves you, baby

January 18, 2005

Yes, yes, I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but quite often I find a thousand words easier to produce than a good picture of food!  In theory, it should be a breeze – it can’t move out of the frame, because you are usually indoors you have control over the lighting, and [...]

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Food blog events round-up

January 18, 2005

After a rather quiet festive season, the calendar of foodblogging events has once again creaked into action and is chugging along quite nicely, thank you! Here are some events that you miss at your peril: The grand old dame of food blogging events, Is My Blog Burning?, fans the flames again on 23rd January.  This [...]

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Red wine, figs in chocolate… just another Friday night at home

January 15, 2005

Just another Friday?  I wish.  But if I ate like this every Friday I’d be twice my current size and probably stuck at home on account of being unable to fit into any form of public transport!  So what was the occasion?  Well, I hadn’t seen Bronwyn for a month, and I felt like cooking [...]

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