November 2010

Saturday Snapshots #118

November 27, 2010

 Shine a little light – London, November 2010 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 [...]

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Fig, Halloumi and hazelnut salad

November 23, 2010

 I have mentioned before how much I love languages – their inexplicable differences, their unexpected similarities, and their subtle nuances.  It is one of my great regrets that my high school did not offer a modern European language option:  no German, French or Spanish classes, only English, Afrikaans, Xhosa and umm, Latin.  But despite being [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #117

November 20, 2010

 Hibiscus – Plettenberg Bay, February 2008 "You don't know what you've got until it's gone" sang the 80s band Chicago.  If my feelings for hibiscus flowers are anything to go by, they might be onto something.  In South Africa, hibiscus bushes grow with absolutely no assistance – some types are so low-maintenance that they are [...]

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Blackberry & pistachio clafoutis and summer memories

November 18, 2010

  I have been reading that if the Autumn colours are really vivid, that is a sign that we have had a hot summer – apparently the hotter it is, the more sugars can form in the leaves, and the degree of Autumn colour that the leaves get is a function of the leaf sugar levels.  [...]

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Spicy roasted pumpkin seeds

November 15, 2010

 One day I found two pumpkin seeds.I planted one and pulled the weeds.It sprouted roots and a big, long vine.A pumpkin grew; I called it mine.The pumpkin was quite round and fat.(I really am quite proud of that.)But there is something I'll admitThat has me worried just a bit.I ate the other seed, you see.Now [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #116

November 13, 2010

 London Autumn leaves – November 2010 They always did say that the streets of London were paved with gold, and judging by this walkway outside my house they weren't far wrong ;-) 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 [...]

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Andrew’s Really Secret (Wine) Event II – #ARSEing about the countryside

November 12, 2010

  Do you remember how a hangover feels?  That split second when you open your eyes in the morning and think oh what a lovely day… and then you lift your head off the pillow and the little man inside your heat starts pounding on your skull with a sledgehammer.  And then you open the [...]

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