Right after I finish my first self-help book Clear your freezer – fix your life! I am planning to start a sequel called For the Love of Leftovers. You heard it here first 😉 Seriously, what’s not to love? Leftovers have inspired me to create dishes like boerewors and butternut risotto or fennel and sausage […]
Click here for a full portionHoney tasting with the UK food bloggers
Being a food blogger makes you rather thick-skinned. You get used to the worried looks when you tell people you’re a blogger. You get used to the reactions that range from puzzlement to disdain to outright banning from waiters in fancy restaurants when you whip out your camera. And you get used to your […]
Click here for a full portionDMBLGiT September – and the winners are…
Well folks, the web album has been up for a while, the judges have had a close look and the score-sheets are in. This month, your hard-working judges were Andrew, Ilva, Johanna and myself – and given the standard of the entries let me assure you that we certainly did have to work hard! I […]
Click here for a full portionEton mess – the last of the summer strawberries
Nick and I once met somebody at a party. He seemed perfectly well mannered, well brought up and civil and was clearly well educated. But once he had established that we were from South Africa and had clearly not attended any school or university that had ever registered on his radar, he proceeded to talk […]
Click here for a full portionHabas con jamon – and Magritte time at chez Cooksister
I have never been a morning person. To me, getting up out of my warm bed in the morning is like reliving the trauma of birth every day of the year: going from the warm, comfortable known into the harsh and unforgiving unknown before you are ready. No wonder babies cry when they are born!! […]
Click here for a full portionSlow roasted tomatoes in olive oil
I have an admission to make. For a large part of my life, I didn’t eat tomatoes. I picked them out of sandwiches, I ordered salads without them, I arranged them on the side of my plate in a line of evil, red half-moons. I remember having debates with friends at university on why exactly […]
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