January 2009

Saturday Snapshots #21

January 17, 2009

  Chinatown, London – January 2009 London's Chinatown is only a couple of blocks from Leicester Square, but you may as well have stepped into a parallel universe.  Chinese grocery stores, Chinese restaurants, Chinese newspapers, Chinese medicines…  and alongside an army of tourists, a surprising number of Chinese people.  Chinese New Year is always celebrated [...]

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Smoked salmon and dill chowder

January 16, 2009

  So.  Have you ever indulged in a threesome? No, don't worry, CookSister has not suddenly turned into an adult site!  I'm talking about one ingredient, prepared three ways, and served together.  You might think that this is the preserve of poncey restaurants and celebrity TV chefs, but over the festive season I proved it's [...]

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Waiter, there’s something in my… sweet/savoury swap!

January 14, 2009

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of going to dinner with my friends Greg and Gail – the same ones who invited us over on Christmas day.  It's a rare pleasure because they now live in Sydney and I don't get to see them often.  It's also a slightly unusual friendship because… Gail was [...]

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Cranberry, orange and pecan muffins for WTSIM

January 11, 2009

   I'm still warbling Christmas carols, thinking about posting my Christmas lunch & New Year dinner recipes, and looking guiltily at our Christmas tree that really should come down…  so can somebody please explain to me how it got to be almost halfway through January 2009 already??  Yikes.  Tempus fugit indeed.  I believe I'm up [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #20

January 10, 2009

Stairway, Plettenberg Bay 2008 Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, is without a doubt my favourite place on earth.  I've been holidaying there since before I went to school and I still try to visit every time I go home.  This photo was taken in Feb 2008 when we spent a week at the Beacon Island Hotel.  [...]

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Cooksister’s 2008 Top Ten

January 9, 2009

After I mentioned in my previous post that I was toying with following in Niamh, Angela and Nic's footsteps and doing a top ten for the past year here on Cooksister, a few of you said "yes please!".  Now I'm not someone who likes to disappoint her audience, so here you go. Apart from the recipes [...]

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Griddled haloumi cheese with caramelised fennel, shallots & flat leaf parsley

January 8, 2009

  Isn't it funny how we can flick through a magazine, but that certain types of articles will catch our eye time after time?  For some, it might be any article about fashion.  For others, it might be anything to do with celebrities.  For me, it's lists. Oh yes, put it in bullet-point format or [...]

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