Monthly Archives: July 2011

Drunken Peach Mille Feuille


This month’s Monthly Mingle is hosted by Sips and Spoonful. The theme is stone fruit!  Unfortunately it is winter in South Africa and I have been searching high and low for fresh stone fruit but without success. I found some

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Posted in Baking, Competitions and Challenges, Desert

Friday Food Quiz Number 61 and Food Events happening from 29 to 31 July 2011


Another Food Quiz to keep you basy over the weekend! If you are going to do the quiz, please copy the questions and do the answers on your own blog. Please leave me a message to tell me that you

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Posted in Festivals and Markets, The Food Quiz

Leg of Lamb with fennel


I have cooked fennel bulb before but did not like it very much. Inspiration made a Fennel chocolate cake recently and I decided to try it again and this time I found it to be delicious. According to my daughter

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Posted in Lamb, Meat, Supper

Chocolate and dried Turkish apricot muffins


A couple of years ago I use to bake muffins every single day of my life! Muffins are very popular amongst Capetonians. The most popular are definitely bran and also nut and raisin muffins. We use to sell at least

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Posted in Baking, Competitions and Challenges, Vegetarian

Cookery evening with Le Creuset and Silwood kitchen


Last Thursday evening I and a couple of other food bloggers attended a hands-on cooking class at Silwood Kitchen in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Silwood won the 2011 CITY AND GUILDS cookery school skills challenge and the 2010 SHOWCOOK Inter-school’s competition.

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Posted in Chicken, Cooking events, Desert, Soup

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