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2011: The (pizza) wheels go grinding on

By E on January 12, 2011

Well I’ve more than once intended to post pictures of groaning festive season tables over the last few weeks, but technical problems have gotten in the way of that venture (probably for the best, since no one really needed to see a picture of me wearing a paper hat that came out of a Christmas [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Reading | Tagged 21 May 2011, bad science, bullshit, detox, doomsday, MMR vaccine, penn & teller, powerbalance, wakefield | Leave a response

The pudding that didn’t deserve a blog post

By E on December 18, 2010

What it is? Well, I’m going to do what no blogger should do, which is a) to share a failure with the world and b) put a half-baked, as-yet-unperfected idea out there. But I have enough faith in the brilliance of the idea to trust that if someone should perfect it before I do (because [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged heston's hidden orange christmas pudding, hidden center, steamed ginger pudding, steamed pudding, terry's chocolate orange | 2 Responses

New times

By E on December 16, 2010

I didn’t make these cute chicken pies – they were gifted by a dear friend who had just acquired a new set of Le Creuset ramekins. Which means the ramekins are no longer in the kitchen, having been returned to their rightful owner after we had scoffed their delicious contents. I didn’t make that holly [...]

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Plan for leftovers

By E on December 10, 2010

Well I’m going to get ahead of the curve and tell you right now what to do with your leftover Christmas cake, and why you should make sure you have leftovers. (Doctoral advisory: if you don’t like Christmas cake or cheesecake, or fruits and nuts in your cake, or marzipan, or any of the good [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged boozy cake, cake pops, cheesecake, christmas cake, christmas cake cheesecake, dulche de leche, marzipan, Nigella Lawson, rumballs | Leave a response

When it’s time to stake a claim

By E on December 6, 2010

It was big news in the foodie world last month when the US magazine Cook’s Source reprinted a blogger’s story about apple pie without her permission. In fact it was big news on all sorts of levels that together combine to create a rather juicy narrative: first, the discovery; then the “apology” (in which the [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged apple pie plagiarism, biscotti, cell c, cook's source, copyright, dulche de leche, mascarpone, moist cappuccino cake, plagiarism, the moist cake, trevor's moist cappuccino cake | Leave a response

Hello summer

By E on November 26, 2010

Having just returned from my second swim of the year in what must be the best pool in the world (cf. ), I think it’s time to concede that summer has arrived in Cape Town. Just as well, because we have in-laws escaping from winter visiting, and since one of them is a long lost [...]

Posted in Cooking | Tagged apricot jam, biltong, boerewors, braai, firewires, roosterbrood, roosterkoek, sosaties | Leave a response

Secret ingredients

By E on November 9, 2010

Behold the ugliest cake I’ve baked: Yes, it looks pretty nasty. But rest assured that I doctored well it before feeding it to various people and demanding that they guess the secret ingredients. And by doctoring, I mean smothering it in icing which was admittedly too thin simply because I couldn’t bear the idea of [...]

Posted in Cooking, Posts | Tagged chocolate cake, coca cola cake, coca cola marhsmallow cake, mcdonald's immortal burger, rooibos cake, secret ingredient | Leave a response

“If it’s green, it’s trouble. If it’s fried, get double.”

By E on October 29, 2010

I do like that quote, which comes from a TV series called Wings – which I’ve never seen. But as it is so often, we learn by osmosis, and imagine that we know about things that we actually have no experience with. Just the other night, for instance, I had my first taste of Key [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Reading | Tagged deep fried, food critics, Fork, fried green tomatoes, Knife, onion rings, restaurant critics, restaurant reviews | Leave a response

The cookbook review no one asked me to write

By E on October 16, 2010

Once, many many moons ago, I decided it would be a good idea to dye my hair red. I was always envious of dark-haired people because they could do all sorts of cool, subtle things with their hair colour. Auburn sheen, raven black… Not so if you’re a (natural!) blonde, because a) you are naturally [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media | Tagged ice cream, liquorice, liquorice allsorts, marcus wareing, pork belly | Leave a response

Reuben goes topless

By E on October 5, 2010

What happens when you leave a Danish girl alone at home with the fixings for a Reuben? Open-faced, that’s what. With a side of broccoli flash-fried with garlic and rosa tomatoes. Check out those mounds of sauerkraut under delicious melted Emmenthaler. Oh, and plenty of horseradish too. ‘Twas a meal fit for a queen (in [...]

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