I love a good meme, I do. So I was intrigued, while catching up on a bit of blog reading last week, to find that the lovely Susan from Foodblogga had tagged me for meme with no name – but which might as well be called Five Things because most of the questions consist of […]
Click here for a full portionBroad bean crostini and cocktails – for one!
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been moaning rather regularly about the weather of late. I mean, it’s late July already and it feels as if we are still waiting for summer to get underway! It’s all too depressing. In fact, the only warm days I remember recently were the Henley […]
Click here for a full portionRace for Life 2007 – been there, run that
Well, I did it last year, I said I was going to do it this year, and now it’s done! Yes folks, the Cancer Research UK’s 5km Race for Life 2007 has been and gone and I (person voted Least Likely Ever to Run a Race in high school) have completed it for the second […]
Click here for a full portionNasturtium leaf salad
Astonishingly, it seems that the teeniest little bit of summer has finally arrived in the UK! I mean, we have had two weekends in a row of reasonable weather (well, not raining, that is…) and I have finally had a chance to spend some time in my sadly neglected garden. I must say that despite […]
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As with sushi, I was a late arrival at the dim sum party. Where I grew up, lovely as though it was, the culinary scene was not what you might call cutting edge. Sure, Port Elizabeth has always had a large and thriving Chinese community, but the Chinese food that you will find all over South […]
Click here for a full portionPolish cherry dumplings
If you say the word “dumpling” to a room full of people, I can bet you that no two will think of the same dish. It’s just one of those dishes that can manifest itself in so many ways that no two people’s old favourite family dumplings or local specialities will ever be the same. […]
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