Main course – seafood

Skrei cod with a miso glaze – and how to buy sustainable cod

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“So you’re a food blogger then?  Ok, so what’s your signature dish?”  It’s a question I dread, and one that I do not have an answer to.  It is part of the (totally erroneous) assumption that food bloggers cook only lark’s tongues lightly sautéed in truffle butter and garnished with pure gold leaf. People read [...]

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Cajun blackened cod with creamy avocado dressing – and a NoMU giveaway [closed]

Thumbnail image for Cajun blackened cod with creamy avocado dressing – and a NoMU giveaway [closed] April 17, 2013

Don’t you hate it when you finally find the store that sells jeans that actually fit your shape – and it goes out of business.  Or you finally find the perfect  shade of concealer that does not make you look like an outpatient at the jaundice clinic – and the company discontinues that particular shade. [...]

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Blood orange & beetroot salsa with pan-fried salmon

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“Never judge a book by its cover” – we’re told this from childhood and carry it with us into adulthood. It’s a kind of catch-all admonishment not to refuse to read a book because of its boring/ugly/frankly disturbing cover – take a look at these covers to see what I mean! Not to shun the [...]

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Easy crab chilli and rocket pasta

Thumbnail image for Easy crab chilli and rocket pasta January 31, 2013

Isn’t it funny how we humans insist of describing various human characteristics by reference to animals? Take for example: as brave as a lion; as quiet as a mouse; as mad as a badger; as bald as a coot; as dead as a dodo; as blind as a bat; as cunning as a fox; as [...]

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Seared tuna with a red pepper & clementine salsa – and dining out in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth

February 12, 2005

 Damn my procrastination problem, damn it to hell!!  Who else do you know who spent a week in South African in June  (June, people!) and by the end of the year had still not got round to writing it up for her blog?  Well, no prizes for guessing.  And now I have a week’s worth [...]

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