Photo courtesy of Andrew from Spittoon Andrew of Spittoon and I have been friends for a long time. What can I say – we have alot in common. He blogs, I blog. He likes wine, I like wine. He loves his Canon DSLR, I love my Canon DLSR. At the LIWF, he stays over […]
Click here for a full portionHomemade Choc-kit cookies – a South African treat
Have you noticed how many good things come in sandwich format? Whoopie pies, for one – like the indulgent red velvet ones that my friend Mowie brought around to my house when he came for lunch (and foraging!) a couple of weeks ago. Or macarons – like the raspberry tea & chocolate tahini ganache ones […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #103
Greenwich colonnade, London – August 2008
Click here for a full portionLiving a girls’ adventure tale of cocktails and tarts – and a giveaway
Defining your family used to be really simple when people were born and raised in the same place where they themselves would eventually settle and raise a family. Your family was your mom and dad; your siblings; and possibly a grandparent that came to live with you. Your extended family was the cousins and aunts […]
Click here for a full portionThe Spice Girls do London – and Cooksister does DMBLGiT August 2010
(photo – courtesy of Mowie) [Are you here for Does My Blog Look Good in This August ’10? Simply scroll to the bottom of the post!] So what do you say when you have to go and pick up two people from the airport that you have only met once before, and whom you have now […]
Click here for a full portionGammon steaks with spicy caramelised pineapple slices
What is it about the retro food of the 1970s that is so appealing? Is it a generational thing? Am I only nostalgic for 1970s foods because I was growing up then, and do other generations miss the food of other decades? Or is it the sheer “guilty pleasure” appeal of digging into things like avocado […]
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