January 2011

Saturday Snapshots #127

January 29, 2011

  Show me the way – Chamonix, January 2011   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.  Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store and [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #126

January 22, 2011

  The Great Escape – Plettenberg Bay, December 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.  Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store and [...]

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Spiced chocolate orange cake: decadently gluten-free

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  I check my watch – plenty of time before the guests get here – and permit myself a little hint of a smile:  my ability to juggle all my many and varied commitments is a constant source of pride to me.  I pass the mirror-shiny eye-level oven and pause briefly to smooth my cerise cashmere cardigan [...]

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The Lookout, Plettenberg Bay

January 16, 2011

      One of the pieces of wisdom that I am fond of dispensing to friends is this:  I believe that the secret to a contented life lies in learning to accept and even enjoy change.  It's a lesson that I have found to be very hard to learn (and I'm still doing some remedial classes!!), and one that my father [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #125

January 15, 2011

  All by myself – Portugal, December 2010 While the rest of the crop have already become jams and jellies; syrups and salads, the last of the year's pomegranates clings tenaciously to the tree.  But as my favourite lyricist Billy Bragg says, "the apple that doesn't want to get eaten will still fall off the tree".   [...]

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Jewelled couscous with pomegranate and almonds

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One of my favourite books of all time is Tom Robbins’ Still Life With Woodpecker.  I remember a friend lending it to me, reading it, and being enchanted right from the start by Robbins’ quirky, memorable characters and poetic way with words.  Without giving the game away too much, the book asks the question “how do [...]

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Prawn and lemon pepper risotto

January 11, 2011

   There is a wonderful poem by Philip Larkin (a poet who was offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1984 but turned it down) called "This be the verse" that starts like this (warning – profanity ahoy!):   They fuck you up, your mum and dad.  They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with [...]

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