September 2007

Does My Blog Look Good in This – September 2007

September 17, 2007

Seeing as Andrew recently posted the winners of the enduringly popular Does My Blog Look Good in This? event for August, I guess it must be time to announce the next round.  Yes, folks, the Cooksister herself will be hosting this month’s event! So… what are the rules? Only one food photograph may be entered [...]

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Spicy plum crumble in a flash

September 13, 2007

So you’ve heard of speed dating?  I predict the next craze will be speed pudding.  Well, it will be in my house, in any event.  Old married ladies like me don’t have much use for speed dating Speed pudding happens when you’ve had a nice meal but you still feel inexplicably peckish.  Ice cream does [...]

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Oktoberfest, honey and savoury preserves

September 12, 2007

Contrary to what the enigmatic of this post may suggest, we haven’t devised some new and super-esoteric blog event.  The "Does my burning sugar-high honey look good at Oktoberfest with savoury preserves, waiter" extravaganza?  Anybody?  Anybody?? Naaah, it’s just me being lazy and fitting three smaller snippets into one post without devising a snappy title. [...]

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Amarula – South Africa in a bottle

September 9, 2007

Hands up – who’s had a Springbokkie? No, I’m not looking for some juicy revelation about James Small’s alleged extra-curricular activities or (even less) a discussion analogous to the one about Australian sheep farmers and their relationship with their sheep…!  And despite the start of the World Cup, this is not going to be a [...]

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Sausage and fennel risotto

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Leftovers.  Can’t live with them, can’t live without them.  When I have them floating round my fridge, I worry about how much space they are occupying and how to use them up.  When I don’t have any in my fridge, I wish I had some to heat up for a quick and easy dinner.  Never [...]

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Waiter, there’s no meat in my barbecue – the WTSIM#8 roundup

September 2, 2007

I love barbecues.  I love the convival gathering round a fire to talk and eat.  I love the way that meat cooked over an open fire tastes distinctly different to meat cooked indoors.  I love how my clothes (and the house!) smell of woodsmoke the following morning.  I love the lack of pots and pans [...]

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