Happy blogday to me, happy blogday to me! Yes, folks, it’s four (count ’em!) years to the day since I first took to my keyboard and started CookSister. At the time, I knew close to nothing about blogs or the blogging community – all I knew was that reading Jeremy’s blog had opened up a […]
Click here for a full portionCauliflower steaks
What is it with the world these days? Everywhere you look there’s more disaster, pain, misery and suffering. And more and more I find that, with the barrage of bad news leaping out at us every day from the media, people suffer from compassion fatigue. Looking at the figures, there must be many people who […]
Click here for a full portionFabulous fish pie
Well, it seems I spoke too soon. After lying in the sun last Sunday, braaing (BBQing) last Sunday night, and after my lovely summery salad last weekend, the temperatures have plummeted and I’m back to woolly socks and hot chocolate. So it seems that either: a) summer has been delayed (probably got its luggage lost […]
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When I was a teenager, I used to be a veteran shopper for souvenirs and knicknacks. I remember hours of dragging my mom through curio shops buying salt cellars shaped like Siamese cats, crystals, little ornaments for my printer’s tray (remember those? You will if you grew up in South Africa in the 1980s!!) – […]
Click here for a full portionRiesling (Bert Simon 1994 Serrig Wurtzberg Riesling Kabinett)
Here are some two-word combinations that explain why many people think they don’t like Riesling: Blue Nun Black Tower Crouchen Blanc The first two are brand names of mass-produced, mass-marketed syrupy examples of Riesling which is unfortunately the persistent impression that most Brits have of Riesling, formed during their formative years when they (like the […]
Click here for a full portionVampire-slaying tomato, basil & marinated feta skewers
Now there’s a post title you didn’t think you’d be seeing on Cooksister any time soon. Don’t get me wrong – I love vampire lore. I read Salem’s Lot as a teenager and loved every minute of it. Interview with the Vampire enthralled me. Nosferatu is, visually speaking, one of my all-time favourite films – […]
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