From the category archives:

a ramble

paris patisserie: i love bakeries

June 20, 2010

I took these pictures when I was in Paris in 2007.  I am completely obsessed with bakeries.  Any kind of bakery. Bakeries are my all time favourite type of food shop. Whenever I travel I seek out bakeries and can spend hours, or days looking at them (do I need help?).
When I was a child [...]

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motherless mothers day lunch

May 10, 2010

A very good friend of mine and I have mothers that are in heaven, so to remember them and still feel like were a part of the day,  we did a joint motherless mothers day lunch and gathered a few friends.
 It was a perfect day with storms battering in on the Atlantic seaboard, with intermittent [...]

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what is food porn? wikepedia explains

April 9, 2010

Food porn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Food porn is a provocative term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media, foods boasting a high fat and calorie content[1], exotic dishes that arouse a desire to eat[2] or the glorification of food as a substitute [...]

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a love affair with ice cream

March 4, 2010

I needed to ramble on a bit about ice cream, which is one of the big food loves of my life.
Growing up in South Africa where the best option all those years back was Dairy Maid, ice cream for me was nothing to get too excited about. I liked it like all kids like it, but it was [...]

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SASSI -eat sustainable fish

February 16, 2010

If you are in South Africa – you need to put the following number into your cell phone:  0794998795
If you are unsure whether the fish you are about to eat is sustainable or not, simply sms the name of the fish to the above number and you will receive a reply immediately informing you of the status of the [...]

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jamie oliver – top 9 recipes of the last decade

February 4, 2010

In the Nov 09 edition of BBC Good Food mag, JO includes an article of his all time top recipes of the last decade.
…his recipes are:

fantastic fish pie (which I made for supper last night and is in the next post)
midnight pan cooked breakfast
my perfect roast chicken
the easiest sexiest salad in the world (pictured above)
jamie’s honey and lemon dressing
roasted slashed fillet of sea bass, [...]

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nectarcot

January 13, 2010

It’s a cross between a nectarine and a cling peach and it is awesome!
I initially thought given the name that it was a nectarine / apricot cross, but that is a ‘nectacot’, this is a necarcot (with a r) – so perhaps that is the difference.  I intend to get to the bottom of this [...]

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baking and blogging 101

December 6, 2009

It’s best not to do the blogging thing while on a 280 cupcake order.
The timer malfunctioned and the music was too loud and I was distracted.
…….best to keep focussed is all I am going to say.

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cupcake art

December 5, 2009

I was recently asked to do a piece of art which would form part of the launch of a design competition ‘its in you let it out’ (Jupiter Drawing Room CT) design indaba superstars
Each entry works with a side profile of the persons head and shoulders (A3).
This is the poster of my art piece which was [...]

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