December 2011

Saturday Snapshots #175

December 31, 2011

A toast – December 2011   HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL COOKSISTER READERS, WHEREVER YOU ARE.  MAY 2012 BE THE YEAR YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!     Saturday Snapshots is a series of non-food photographs published every Saturday on CookSister.  Previously featured photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots archive page. Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #174

December 24, 2011

 Peace on Earth – Chatel, February 2010   I would like to wish all Cooksister readers a happy and peaceful festive season and all the very best for 2012.  Thank you for visiting, commenting and being a vital part of this blog – without you, I would have stopped ages ago   Saturday Snapshots is a series [...]

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Sautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli

Thumbnail image for Sautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli December 19, 2011

  One of the disadvantages of having our dining room in the conservatory at the back of the house is that there is no hiding your kitchen and your work-in-progress from your guests.  I am inevitably in the kitchen when guests arrive and they either pop in to say hi before returning to the lounge, or [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #173

December 17, 2011

Christmas wreaths, Gothenburg – December 2011   If the idea of a Christmas market fills you with dread, then you clearly have not yet been to the Haga Christmas market in Gothenburg, Sweden.  Stalls line the streets of picturesque clapboard houses, carollers sing merrily, mugs of glögg are cradled, head-sized cinnamon buns are consumed, and [...]

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Cabana – going for a Brazilian in Westfield, Stratford

December 16, 2011

Ever get the feeling that language is a tricky minefield to be negotiated rather than a useful tool for communication that separates us humans from the beasts of the field? For example, if I tell you I am “going for a Brazilian”, do I mean: a) I have fallen head over heels with Filipe and [...]

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Christmas pudding semifreddo with cinnamon streusel and brandy sauce

December 15, 2011

  One of the things people often ask me at this time of year is what some proper South African Christmas traditions are. It's at times like this when I am faced with the sudden urge to make up something totally outlandish, along the lines of "first, you have to feed the giraffes their customary mince pies, otherwise they [...]

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A hot chilli sauce tasting – 5 sauces compared

December 13, 2011

One of the things that has always fascinated me about the human senses is that you can never be entirely sure that you see, smell, hear, feel or taste anything precisely the same way as another person.  An extreme example was a relative who is colour blind – where I saw all the seven colours [...]

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