Hallelujah – summer seems to have arrived! Long sunny afternoons, blue skies with fluffy clouds: now this is more like it. Everything seems better in summer. There’s a spring in my step, I smile at strangers and I have more energy – just a pity we all know it can’t last 😉
Click here for a full portionRoasted nectarines in Prosciutto – a summery starter
I have often written about braais (BBQs) on this blog – in fact, there is a separate section for braai recipe in my recipe index! We have braaied in all weather, in various locations and for varying numbers of people. And although we tend to repeat similar stuff when we are only braaing for ourselves […]
Click here for a full portionInterviewed by Ilva of Lucullian Delights
Another week, another meme! This one has actually been around for a while but between my and Ilva‘s hectic schedules she only recently managed to send me the questions, and I have only just managed to answer! The idea is that you volunteer to be interviewed – which I did, and so the lovely Ilva […]
Click here for a full portionBacon-wrapped venison loin on the braai
Recent readers of this blog will know that I have been deeply unimpressed with the weather around here lately. Summer? You call this summer?? All we’ve had is the wettest July since records began, or words to that effect. We’ve had thunder, hail, severe flooding – you name it! See why I’ve been moaning?
Click here for a full portionUSA, Day 7/8: Scallops in Stonington, CT
After a lovely relaxing day of being “leaf peepers” around the Westport area, we were sad to leave but at the same time I was greatly looking forward to our next destination: Stonington, Connecticut. It’s an easy drive up from Westport and by mid-morning we were there, knocking on the door of Nancyanne’s house. Nancyanne […]
Click here for a full portionThe best pasta sauce in the world… ever!
I am a great believer in the oral storytelling tradition. As a child who reached schoolgoing age before television arrived on our shores, I grew up with stories – either those read to me by my mom before an afternoon nap, or told to us by my dad when he used to bath me and […]
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