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When life gives you lemons

By E | Posted on: January 21, 2010
you obviously slice them thinly before caramelising in butter, maple syrup and chilli flakes: Then chop them finely (including as much lemony goo as possible from the pan), and add them to a salad: (This is particularly good with spicy fishcakes). When life gives you ginger, on the other hand, I suggest you send it [...]
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1 down, 51 to go

By E | Posted on: January 9, 2010
As arbitrary as year changes often are, I definitely prefer the end of week 1 in January to the end of week 52 in December. Gone are the silly pressures about what to do to stay up till midnight – and beyond – on some prescribed day (rebels that we are, we simply ignored this [...]
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We interrupt this broadcast for an important message

By E | Posted on: January 6, 2010
A brand new British website, Goodtoknow, has just published the secrets of sex positions for your fat days! Where, oh where, would we be without the interweb?
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OK, that was a test

By E | Posted on: January 6, 2010
but maybe blabla is the right commentary for this. blabla blabla (Thanks to Chef Sandwich for this)
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Not with a bang but a pop

By E | Posted on: December 27, 2009
So Christmas dinner was delightfully simple this year – bit of gammon, cucumber salad, sweet and tangy mustard, followed by Lindt’s new Tiramisu chocolate (which tastes suspiciously of tiramisu). Also, the whole thing didn’t take much longer than for us to pop a bottle of bubbles and empty its contents. (As far as I’m concerned, [...]
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Who is the smushiest of them all?

By E | Posted on: December 23, 2009
Continuing the pretend theme, I forgot to mention that our smushi dinner the other night culminated in a rare sighting – and tasting – of a quartet of petit fours from the esteemed Fat Duck in Bray (that’s in INGLAN). There was a playing card, which looked just like a Queen of Hearts, but which [...]
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If Gollum were a popstar…

By E | Posted on: December 20, 2009
I think he would look something like Michael Jackson in This Is It. We finally watched this fascinating and bizarre film, and when I wasn’t happily grooving along to the beat (I loved this man as a teenager, and still think Billie Jean is one of the best songs EVAH), I was struck by how [...]
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A silly season of silly people

By E | Posted on: December 16, 2009
So the Philosophe and I took an afternoon walk yesterday to go collect his car after being serviced. Which means it was before 5pm, and the roads were full of people eager to get home, or to the beach, or wherever grumpy people go after work on the day before a public holiday in Cape [...]
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Green green grass

By E | Posted on: December 12, 2009
The grass was this green in Maryland two weeks ago when we were there. And it’s taken me almost that long to shake the grass-is-greener-over-there feeling that I often get when I return from long, cool trips. Don’t get me wrong – I was glad to be home the moment we set foot in the [...]
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VHDTV

By E | Posted on: November 28, 2009
So I’ve just experienced my first Thanksgiving. Admittedly an untraditional one, as there was no turkey bird on the table. But we did feast on these two headless chickens after they perched on soda cans filled with beer (and other secret ingredients) for a good couple of hours on the barbie/bbq/braai (during which time they [...]
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