Regard the humble tuna toastie. It’s not big or clever or funny or famous. You don’t serve it at fancy dinner parties. Ferran Adria has not deconstructed it into a post-modernist version of itself. In short, it doesn’t get to walk the culinary red carpet of life. But show me a quicker, easier and tastier dish […]
Click here for a full portionSpanish chicken bake with butter beans, chorizo and olives
I always wonder how some dishes got their names – particularly names that ascribe a certain national heritage to a dish, but which dish you won’t find on a single menu in its alleged coutry of origin. I have a recipe which I got from a friend in high school or shortly afterwards, and which my […]
Click here for a full portionJan Ellis pudding – a classic South African dessert
Fact: South Africans love puddings. And no, I don’t mean the weird English concept of puddings which can include savouries like Yorkshire pudding. I mean sponge-cakey puddings baked in the oven and usually served warm with some sort of sauce or syrup. There’s nothing glamorous or sexy about them, and they don’t require any sort of […]
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Keurbooms beach sunset, February 2008
Click here for a full portionDark chocolate and raspberry tart
Aaaaah… sweet, sweet Friday. I thought you’d never come. When I was at university, I never had lectures on a Friday afternoon. I would drive off our huge campus (our campus was the biggest in the Southern hemisphere, and a nature reserve to boot!) in my little Ford Escort and if I saw anybody I […]
Click here for a full portionTimes Top 50 Food Blogs in the World – and your help needed
Remember what I said last week about good things happening in threes? Well, I hate to break it to my former nanny, but she’s wrong. Sometimes, good things happen in TWOS!
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