Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want ~ Gael Greene
And no, these aren’t Joseph’s but are the very, very clever product of my friend Sam’s warp-speed creativity – she is to home industries what Leonardo was to the renaissance; completely unstoppable. Anyway, she happened to see a picture of a rainbow cake during a work presentation and promptly went home and concocted a recipe [...]
Read More...“[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of [...]
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I know I’ve already done a tip for the week, but I didn’t do one last week, so consider this my sorry attempt to make amends. Actually, this silly little tip has been bashing about in my head for a while now – it’s irritating me and I want it gone and the only way [...]
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If you live in Johannesburg, South Africa (as opposed to Johannesburg, California, and yes, there is such a place) and are looking for somewhere to get a decent range of organic grub from, you might be struggling. Because let’s face it, the organic selection in our supermarkets is woeful – there’s more diversity in a boyband album [...]
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This is yet another post inspired by my friend Jenty (no, much as it may seem like it, I’m really not stalking her, we just talk about cooking quite a lot these days). Anyways, she was looking to buy a new cookbook the other day, and I persuaded her to get Nigella Express because I [...]
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Inspired by my Go-Go Gadget Breakfast “recipe”, I thought I’d post a little nugget of information about Goji Berries. Because although we’re forever hearing the names of the (seemingly endless list of) superfoods being bandied about like some crazed game of health-food bingo, I’m not always sure that we know why they’re so good for us. [...]
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Calling this a recipe is a bit like calling Paris Hilton an actress – a monumental stretch! It’s really more of a list of things to throw together than anything that could concievably be called a Proper Recipe. Despite this, though, it is delicious, nutrirtious and easy as pie to make – and those are [...]
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Nope, this is not a sequel to “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” featuring a giant red stalker, it is, in fact, a tip I picked up while watching a program by Heston Blumenthal (you know, the granite-jawed, bespectacled, celebrity chef of The Fat Duck fame) and one that I thought at the time was fabulously simple [...]
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I decided to post this recipe after reading a tweet from my friend Jenty saying that she’d made this for supper over the weekend, and how well it had gone down in her household. That reminded me of a) how much I love carbonara, and b) that I haven’t had it for yonks (I go [...]
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I think I’m coming down with flu, so am not really feeling up to writing a scintillating post tonight – frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever felt less scintillating in my life! So, instead, herewith a simple recipe for a country-style loaf that is about the sort of nourishing, comforting thing I feel the need [...]
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