**GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED – the lucky winner was Margot of Coffee & Vanilla** I’m a fraud. Yes, I hang out with baking and dessert maestros like Mowie, Deeba and Jamie. Yes, I do occasionally bake and make dessert. But I’m no baker, and I’m no dessert blogger. I have made “real” bread with yeast exactly […]
Click here for a full portionBetween Hemispheres – a new blogbaby is born!
Well, I am back from an awesome week’s skiing in Chatel and feeling refreshed, energised and ready to take on the world! Also ready for another ski holiday already, but that’s another story… Secrets – who doesn’t like them? They are fun to try and keep from the world at large,while at the same […]
Click here for a full portionA South African Omnivore’s 100
Just like comparisons, lists are odious. As soon as you make a list, you set yourself up to be disagreed with, shouted down, corrected and generally berated for what you included – and for what you left out. It’s a lose-lose situation! But when you are as list-obsessed as I am, you go ahead and […]
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Into the great white open – Chamonix 2008
Click here for a full portionThe big reveal – my famous cupcakes!
I teased you last week with my muffcakes post – and now it’s time for a correction and the big reveal. First the big reveal – as you can see from the picture, my muffins are the new face of… Lurpak butter! They now refuse to get out of the oven for less than $10,000 🙂 […]
Click here for a full portionBobotie revisited
[As I am currently on holiday, this is a re-posting of one of the first traditional South African recipes that I ever posted on this blog, over five years ago in 2004.] Bobotie is a classic South African dish and if you visit a restaurant serving traditional South African foods you are almost sure to encounter […]
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