November 2009

Mirabelle and ginger jam

November 17, 2009

Do you still remember your first time? All that panic-stricken wondering whether you were doing it right… Whether it was firm enough yet… Whether it had gone on long enough or not… Whether it was really supposed to look like that… Whether the equipment was in deep enough… I remember my first time very well – but [...]

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Saturday snapshots #64

November 14, 2009

 Dome of St Peter's Basilica – Vatican City, 2007 St Peter's Basilica was built between 1506 and 1626 and is regarded as the symbolic "Mother Church" of the Catholic faith.  The site of the basilica is said to be directly above the burial place of Saint Peter and there has been a church here since [...]

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Spiced pear, blackberry & pistachio crumble

November 13, 2009

Don't you hate it when something looks beautiful on the outside but the inside does not live up to expectations? That gorgeous boy you always adored from afar on the beach… who turned out to be as thick as two short planks with stinky feet and bad breath. The cookbook with the glossy cover… filled [...]

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Roasted butternut and sage risotto

November 8, 2009

Earlier this year at the start of summer, I bought a bunch of packets of herb seeds.  I planted them in teensy pots and waited for them to sprout.  Some sprouted almost immediately, others took a little longer, and one bunch did not sprout at all.  I had three little baby plants in one pot [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #63

November 7, 2009

Bonfire night, Victoria Park – London, November 2009 "Remember, remember the fifth of November" is the rhyme I recall from my childhood, back in the days when I was still small enough to think that the Guy Fawkes was actually Guy Fox.  I have always associated the 5th of November (also known as Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night) with fireworks [...]

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The CookSister speaks… at Food Blogger Connect!

November 6, 2009

Is it just me, or has the media (particularly the UK media) lately been packed with stories of people who met other people on the internet and then had something ghastly happen to them?  If you are to believe what the tabloids say, then all the normal people live exclusively in the analogue world and [...]

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Pea, feta cheese and basil frittata

November 5, 2009

During World War II, 67,000 Italian prisoners of war mainly from the conflict in North Africa were sent out to South Africa where they were mainly housed in the Zonderwater POW camp in what was then the Transvaal. (You can read more about the camp here – but suffice to say that after the war the Camp Commandant Prinsloo [...]

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