September 2010

South African wine and travel evening with STA TravelBuzz

September 17, 2010

Please remember to vote for me in the South African Blog Awards where I am a finalist in the Best Food and Best Overseas Blog categories!  VOTING ENDS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT SOUTH AFRICAN TIME!  Thanks! One of the more annoying mysteries of my life is the price of plane tickets to South Africa.  I have [...]

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Low-fat banana walnut muffins – the Muffins of Good

September 15, 2010

Please remember to vote for me in the South African Blog Awards where I am a finalist in the Best Food and Best Overseas Blog categories!  You can vote once a day till 17 September.  Thanks! I really wanted to call this post and its future companion piece Midnight with the (banana) Muffins of Good [...]

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Blue Waters Café, Port Elizabeth

September 13, 2010

Please remember to vote for me in the South African Blog Awards where I am a finalist in the Best Food and Best Overseas Blog categories!  You can vote once a day till 17 September.  Thanks! I love my hometown of Port Elizabeth dearly, but one of its strong points has never been customer loyalty.  [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #107

September 11, 2010

Gorey Harbour sunset, Jersey – April 2006 When I tell people I am going to Jersey for the weekend, they usually say something like "gee, that's a long way to go for a weekend", assuming that I am going to New Jersey in the USA.  But in fact, I am going to the the Bailiwick [...]

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Blackberry cheesecake in a glass

September 8, 2010

Please remember to vote for me in the South African Blog Awards where I am a finalist in the Best Food and Best Overseas Blog categories!  You can vote once a day till 17 September.  Thanks! Cheesecake.  When I was a kid I always thought this term was one of the biggest lies that adults [...]

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Lamb sosaties revisited – and a BBQ event!

September 6, 2010

Please remember to vote for me in the South African Blog Awards where I am a finalist in the Best Food and Best Overseas Blog categories!  You can vote once a day till 17 September.  Thanks! Yes, I know it's Monday, not Sunday, but I had 25 people at my house on Saturday, a headache [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #106

September 4, 2010

Thames sunset, June 2008   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – all previously featured  photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots compendium page.  All photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store. They make gifts, for friends [...]

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