Africa’s warmest welcome – O.R. Tambo Airport Johannesburg, December 2008
Click here for a full portionChocolate and cherry clafoutis – with wild cherries
Friday 27 November is the LAST DAY to nominate this blog in the 2010 South African Blog Awards! Please click here to nominate me! To cherry-pick. To pop somebody’s cherry. To want a bite of the cherry. Life is a bowl of cherries. Cherry-red. Isn’t it funny how some fruits enter not only our diet but […]
Click here for a full portionQuills @ the Intercontinental Airport Sun, Johannesburg
One of the dubious pleasures of trying to live your life with one foot on each of two continents is that you become intimately acquainted with the airports of both countries. Instead of being merely transit points, they become meeting places, farewell venues, and the backdrop for emotional crises. I remember standing at passport control in Johannesburg […]
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Facade – Greenwich Peninsula, August 2010
Click here for a full portionCheyenne Spur Steak Ranch, Greenwich [CLOSED]
If you had asked me ten years ago whether there are particular South African foods that I miss here in London, I would have come up with a fairly long list. Biltong, rooibos tea, Mrs Balls chutney, Castle Lager and Nando’s sauces would all have been there. But over the years that we have been here, I find […]
Click here for a full portionPan-fried fish fillets with capers on pesto mash
Capers. Slippery little suckers, aren’t they? I mean, for a start, what are they? Seeds? Berries? What?? I grew up believing I knew exactly what they were. My father told me that they were the pickled seeds of the nasturtium plant and seeing as the Afrikaans word for nasturtium is kappertjie, there seemed to be an […]
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