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El Cantara [CLOSED]

by Jeanne Horak on March 18, 2011 8 Comments in London restaurants

El Cantara © J Horak-Druiff 2011

  One of the best things about London is the variety of ethnic cuisines that are available at restaurant throughout the city.  Ethiopian? French? Malaysian? Thai? Lebanese? Greek?Moroccan?  Spanish? All are easily available. And we won’t even mention the myriad of Indian or Chinese restaurants for which parts of London are famous.  One of the cuisines that I […]

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Really simple crabcakes

by Jeanne Horak on March 15, 2011 29 Comments in Fish, Product reviews

Crabcakes title © J Horak-Druiff 2011

[Thanks to all of you who have been sending your good wishes and asking after my dad – it means more to me than you know.  Things have been up and down.  Immedately following the hip surgery last Wednesday night he went to ICU where he remains.  As a result of the antibiotics he has […]

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Saturday Snapshots #133

by Jeanne Horak on March 12, 2011 6 Comments in Photography, Saturday Snapshots

  New life – March 2010

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Cottage pie for comfort

by Jeanne Horak on March 9, 2011 44 Comments in Gluten-free, Main course - meat

Cottage pie title © J Horak-Druiff 2011

  As Alannis Morisette said: “Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you when you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right” – and she wasn’t kidding. This post was meant to be a joyous recounting of our incredible 2 weeks in South Africa; of the super successful Food Blogger Indaba 2011; of […]

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Saturday Snapshots #132

by Jeanne Horak on March 5, 2011 8 Comments in Photography, Saturday Snapshots

Purple Crocuses © J Horak-Druiff 2011

Spring has sprung – February 2008

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Spiced plum crumble/crisp – revisited and rephotographed

by Jeanne Horak on March 2, 2011 11 Comments in Baking (sweet), Dessert, Recipes

Spiced Plum Crisp © J Horak-Druiff 2011

  Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that Fridays are #FridayPoetryFix days around here, where I post the link to a favourite poem, old or new, that has grabbed my attention during the week, or that describes my mood particularly well.  Last Friday was the turn of one of my favourite […]

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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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