June 2011

All I want VIP Food Safari

June 15, 2011

We've all done it.  We've all sat morosely in an airport lounge with too much luggage and too many crying children and no hope of any improvement on board the plane.  And then they breeze past you in impossibly stylish clothes and with minimal (expensive) luggage, trailing and air of expensive perfume and smugness, and [...]

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Radish, celeriac & pecorino salad with truffle oil & pomegranate – how things change!

June 13, 2011

You've all heard the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same", right? Well, I do believe it's true.  You change jobs; you change size; you change partners; you change your taste in music; you change countries; you change hair cut/colour; you change your wardrobe.  But despite all these changes, some things about [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #146

June 11, 2011

Nobody home – Afife, Portugal, April 2011   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – 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, or even as gorgeous A3-size2011 CookSister calendars for foodies, for London-lovers, Italophiles or beach lovers.  [...]

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Clarence Court eggs at Hix, Soho

June 8, 2011

Why is it I never have any trouble finishing a bottle of wine; but I have great trouble in finishing almost everything else?? Rattling around in my drafts folder, I found this post from (gulp!) November last year.  Ah well.  The eggs are still available and the restaurant is still trading; so I decided to [...]

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Beef brisket with braai (BBQ) sauce potjiekos

June 5, 2011

There is a great joke about diets that goes something like this: STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT: The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans of Britons. The French eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans or Britons. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #145

June 4, 2011

Pink perfection – Bloom festival, Dublin June 2011 Just back from a lovely trip to Dublin, thanks to the generous and lovely people at Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board), to visit the Bloom festival,  Now in its fifth year, the show features not only a wealth of Irish artisinal food and drink producers, but [...]

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Sneak peek – The Wikio Top Gastronomy Blogs June 2011 ranking

June 2, 2011

1 Maison Cupcake 2 Fuss Free Flavours 3 englishmum.com 4 The English Can Cook 5 Chocablog 6 eat like a girl 7 Cook Sister! 8 meemalee’s kitchen 9 Hollow Legs 10 Food Stories 11 www.Prepped.co.uk 12 The Pink Whisk 13 Tinned Tomatoes 14 Belleau Kitchen 15 Utterly Scrumptious Food For Families 16 Fresh from the [...]

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