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Neptune Oyster and 2 days in Boston

by Jeanne Horak on November 12, 2007 6 Comments in NaBloPoMo 2007, USA, USA restaurants

Boston Northern Avenue Bridge 2006

No, it’s not that I’ve been holding out on you and slipped off on a secret weekend in Boston… The truth is that this is the final post in my series on our trip to the USA last year.  Only 12 short months after we got back.  I weep…

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Pizza inspirations – Mozzarella, basil and slow-roast tomatoes

by Jeanne Horak on November 11, 2007 9 Comments in NaBloPoMo 2007, No recipe required

Tomato-basil-mozzarella-pizza

As I have said before, Friday nights here at Chez Cooksister are pizza nights.  For the rest of the week, I try to cook reasonably balanced and healthy meals:  protein, carbohydrates and lots of vegetables.  Yes, they are tasty, but these meals do seem to take up pretty much all of my leisure time on […]

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Cilantro, cucumber and tomato salad

by Jeanne Horak on November 10, 2007 16 Comments in Gluten-free, NaBloPoMo 2007, Salads, Vegan, Vegetable side dishes, Vegetarian, Weekend Herb Blogging

It seems that I am on a roll writing about love-it-or-hate-it foods. Hands up – who likes fresh coriander leaves, a.k.a. cilantro?  I know I do – and Nick has repeatedly declared that fresh cilantro is his all-time favourite herb.  But as I have discovered, this is not an opinion shared by everyone – to […]

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Marmite cheese spread – this could be heaven or this could be hell!

by Jeanne Horak on November 9, 2007 18 Comments in NaBloPoMo 2007, South African products

marmite-cheese-spread

Growing up in Port Elizabeth (in our house anyway), your bread toppings included the following choices: peanut butter, golden syrup or apricot jam; and if you had a savoury tooth rather than a sweet one Anchovette, Melrose cheese spread, Marmite and Bovril. Some of the family liked Marmite (made from yeast extract left over after […]

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Ham, cheese and paprika muffins

by Jeanne Horak on November 7, 2007 10 Comments in Baking (savoury), Breakfast & brunch, London food blogger events, NaBloPoMo 2007, Recipes

ham-cheese-paprika-muffins

I’m sure I’ve said it before, but it probably bears saying again.  One of the best things about blogging (to me, anyway) is the wonderful people I’ve met.  People still look at me a bit strangely when I say “I met Johanna through the Internet”, but I’m getting used to it 🙂  My friends were […]

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J-E-A-N-N-E spells…

by Jeanne Horak on November 7, 2007 9 Comments in Memes, NaBloPoMo 2007

Cooksister-tomato

Be careful when you comment on friends’ blogs. There I was earlier this week, reading my fellow Nabber Charlotte’s blog.  One of the posts enlightened me as to where in Germany she resides, and as it turns out it’s near Heidelberg.  Now if only I’d known this, I would have arranged to meet up with […]

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Jeanne Horak is a freelance food and travel writer; recipe developer and photographer. South African by birth and Londoner by choice, Jeanne has been writing about food and travel on Cooksister since 2004. She is a popular speaker on food photography and writing has also contributed articles, recipes and photos to a number of online and print publications. Jeanne has also worked with a number of destination marketers to promote their city or region. Please get in touch to work with her Read More…

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