Oh, I had such good intentions. I came home on Friday afternoon and the three-day weekend stretched ahead of me as if it would never end. Surely I would have time to do absolutely everything on my blog to do list? I mean, how long can it take to post a couple of recipes, recategorise over […]
Click here for a full portionSpinach & feta fish fillets for building beautiful bones
I have told you about the first meal that Nick cooked me – stuffed gem squash. But I don’t believe I have told you about the first meal I cooked him. It was 10 years ago and I was still living at home with my parents, so I was in a quandary. If I invited […]
Click here for a full portionChicken a la King revisited for CookSister’s 4th birthday
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 […]
Click here for a full portionSalade folle a la Cooksister
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!!) – […]
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