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Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by PinkPolkaDotFood — 4 Comments ↓

If you love good food and wine, you should not miss the Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town! We went last night and had a wonderful evening. There was so much to eat do, that we decided to go…

Tagged with: Food events, Food show, Pick n Pay, Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town, pinkpolkadot, Taste of Cape Town
Posted in Cooking events, Festivals and Markets

Chocolate Crunchies for Dinner Divas

Posted on November 11, 2012 by PinkPolkaDotFood — 5 Comments ↓

One of the most difficult things for me participating in Dinner Divas was to decide what I will make for the first round. Our brief was to make at least 3 dishes, and each must contain one of the sponsor’s…

Tagged with: baking, Chocolate, Chocolate Crunchies, Chocolate Crunchies recipe, Cruchies, Dinner Divas, Dinner Divas on SABC2, Dinner Divas recipes, Ilovecooking, luchbox food, pinkpolkadot, pinkpolkadotfood, PinkPolkaDotFood Crunchies, recipe
Posted in Baking, Biscuits, Cooking events, Desert, Dinner Divas, Family

My FBI Experience

Posted on June 30, 2012 by PinkPolkaDotFood — 26 Comments ↓

I woke up on Sunday, 24 June 2012, feeling very excited! The biggest event on any Food Blogger’s event list, South African Food Bloggers Indaba, was on my agenda for the day! My daughter and I were both attending the…

Tagged with: blogging, Bos, BrownieGirl, Cadbury’s, Colleen Grové, Fairview cheeses and wines, Food Bloggers, Food Bloggers Indaba, NoMU, Pick and Pay, Saint Sebastian Bay, Sir Juice, South African Food Bloggers Indaba 2012, Spekko, The tangled tree, Verlaque, Welmoed wines, Wusthoff, Yuppiechef, Zoku
Posted in Cooking events, Food Bloggers Indaba

Cape Town Good Food and Wine Show

Posted on May 27, 2012 by PinkPolkaDotFood — 15 Comments ↓

We went to the Good Food and Wine show on Friday, 25 May. As always it was wonderful. This is one event on the Cape Town Calendar that I don’t want to ever miss! Just think about it: Wonderful wine,…

Tagged with: Buddy Valastro, cake competition, cakes, Cape Town Good Food and Wine show, food, Food Shows, Good Food and Wine Show, Jenny Morris, Kanya Hunt, Masterchef, Pete Goffe-Wood, pinkpolkadot, the Cake Boss, TLC, Vanilla House, wine
Posted in Cooking events, Festivals and Markets

Cookery evening with Le Creuset and Silwood kitchen

Posted on July 26, 2011 by PinkPolkaDotFood — 12 Comments ↓

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.…

Tagged with: Bread and Butter pudding, Cookery evening, Cooking Class, food, Food Bloggers, Le Creuset, pinkpolkadot, Silwood Kitchen, Stuffed Chicken Breast, Tomato and Red pepper soup
Posted in Chicken, Cooking events, Desert, Soup