January 2010

Moroccan-spiced roasted vegetables

January 19, 2010

So the festive season is well and truly over.  All the Christmas decorations have been taken down, all the gammon leftovers have been eaten, and everyone is talking about good intentions, more exercise, losing weight, drinking less and eating light.  Going out to dinner with friends has become fraught with difficulties as this one won't go [...]

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Sundays in South Africa – culinary inspiration for visitors

January 18, 2010

Sundays in South Africa started in 2010 when the FIFA World Cup 2010 took place for the first time ever on African soil – in my home country of South Africa.  I can’t tell you how proud this makes me. As our national treasure Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said at the opening ceremony: “I cant believe it, I [...]

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Le Chameleon, Humansdorp

January 17, 2010

I have often said to people that one of the characteristics I admire most in somebody is their ability to surprise me, even if I've known them for ages.  It might discovering a clutch of heavy metal CDs in the collection of an old friend with a taste for opera.  It might be a long-term vegetarian friend [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #73

January 16, 2010

Blackbird – London, January 2010 Our house has a mature pyracantha hedge that surrounds the garden on two sides.  It's a great plant for a number of reasons:  it is evergreen (meaning that we have year-round privacy); it makes masses of sweet-scented blossoms in the spring and summer; it has formidable thorns (meaning good security); [...]

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Vivat Bacchus, London Bridge

January 14, 2010

So did you hear the one about the girl who called up a couple of central London restaurants one Friday afternoon, asking:  "Hello, do you have a table for eleven people available for dinner tomorrow evening?  Yes, that's this Saturday evening I'm talking about, and I'd like the table at 19h30." OK, so those of you who [...]

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Cheese crackers – perfect with goats’ cheese and apples

January 12, 2010

I'm a sucker for figures of speech – which is a good thing because the Afrikaans language (which is my mother tongue) is particularly richly endowed with them!  One figure of speech that we have in abundance is adjectives in their intensive form – English has a few (snow white, blood red), but Afrikaans has [...]

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Cape Town – a culinary snapshot

January 10, 2010

This post was originally written for a wonderful series on my dear friend Johanna's blog The Passionate Cook where each post put the culiary spotlight on a different world city.  Johanna sent a list of questions; I provided the answers below.  I am republishing it here as part of a new series starting today called Sundays [...]

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