“[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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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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October is breast cancer awareness month, and although I know that (hopefully) all of us are concerned about this horrible disease, I suspect that a lot of us don’t really think about it too much until, god-forbid, either we, or someone we love, is diagnosed with it.
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Happy Heritge Day peeps! Hope you have a truly fabulous day, full of love, laughter, fabulous food, friends and family. And whatever you do, enjoy the braai!
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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
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Remember that tomorrow when you tuck into your braai. Enjoy the food, enjoy the company and, above all, enjoy this [...] -
My search is over – the glass slipper fits, and my culinary Cinderella is a mystery no more (see Cruising for Le Creuset if you think I sound like I’m having an acid flash-back)! I’ve found the beautiful powder blue Le Creuset pots that I saw on BBC Food’s “Anjum Anand’s Indian Food Made Easy”! [...]
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I’ve had a horrid weekend trying to placate a grizzly four-month old who’s feeling miserable from the aftereffects of her inoculations – suffice to say I’d sooner wrangle a rhino than relieve these last two days. I now have a thumping migraine and am too exhausted to make much sense. So rather than spew the [...]
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Okay, have had the second catastrophic muffin failure in as many weeks, and I’m getting bleak – this is now becoming serious… It has become a Categorical Imperative that I figure out how to make a decent muffin. I’ve always prided myself on being a semi-decent baker, but if the banana flavoured landmines of today [...]
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Okay, so my man was working late on Saturday (yes, genuinely, or at least for his sake it damn well better have been!) so, as I have no life, I spent my Saturday evening reading Nigella and browsing for kitchenware – I am SUCH a wildchild! Depressingly enough, I actually used to be… it’s quite [...]
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Have had an exhausting bloody day as my beautiful daughter has decided, at the world weary age of 4 months, that sleep is passe and only for sissies. I am now, officially, shattered. And hungry – it has not been a good cooking day… The carrot muffins that I made (during the 20 minutes I [...]
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