Reflections, Vigelands Park, Oslo – December 2012
Click here for a full portionCharred clementine and rum individual upside-down cakes
And here we are again – the fnal blog post of another year. In 2011 my final post was a visual toast to my readers. In 2010 my final post was a recipe for shredded Brussels sprouts with pancetta & pine nuts In 2009 my final post was a Christmas message (gulp – a whole week […]
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Sunrise, Trysil (Norway – December 2012)
Click here for a full portionChocolate chestnut fondant – a decadent Christmas dessert
The other day, a friend and fellow-blogger asked an open question of his readers: do you collect mementos when you travel, and if so, what? If you’d aked me that question 15 years ago, the answer would have been a resounding “YES! How much time do you have?” At various times over my teenage and 20-something years, […]
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Christmas star – December 2012
Click here for a full portionSous vide duck breasts with a charred orange & Cointreau sauce
Christmas traditions – they’re a funny old lot, aren’t they? For a start, how did the idea of a snowy Christmas with frost on the windows and northern hemisphere pine trees become so pervasive that you see shops in countries like my native South Africa (where Christmas falls in the middle of summer) giving […]
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