April 2012

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  • FoodBlogCT News Week 18 2012

    Friday, the 4th of May FoodFact: The peach is a member of the rose family and will have a sweet fragrance when ripe. Report: Threat Of Hunger Skyrockets Among Seniors One in seven seniors in America — some 8.3 million people — faced the threat of hunger in 2010, a 78 percent spike since 2001, […] More

  • Fraiche Food Cook Book

    A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the ever popular Fraiche Ayres restaurants in Rosebank, Cape Town, for the launch of Fraiche Food – a cook book written by Pam & Kyle Miller. The restaurant is part of the Starke Ayres Garden Centre and I hadn’t been before, so I was very excited. […] More

  • FoodBlogCT News Week 17 2012

    Friday, the 27th April #FoodFact: As bell peppers mature, their color changes from green to red and they become sweeter. Nando’s accepts Santam food challenge Fast food chain Nando’s has accepted a “food challenge” put to it by insurance company Santam, a spokesman said on Thursday. [read more] Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So […] More

  • Taste of Cape Town 2012 Review

    Where are all the drunks? “I feel like I am at a music festival. A music festival with great food. And clean people.” There have been a lot of people saying how expensive Taste of Cape Town (T0CT) was and to an extent I agree. Early-bird tickets cost R50 and those who bought later, R80. […] More

  • The Last Dinner on the Titanic

    It was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic this weekend and the History Channel on DSTV dedicated several hours to documentaries about that tragic day for the past few weeks. Some historians and experts were trying to analyse and understand the wreckage to trace back the events that occurred between hitting the […] More

  • Cafe Paradiso Review

    I bought Café Paradiso! Yay! It’s mine! I am converting it back into a house and I shall live in it, very happily, for many years to come. That’s what I dreamt about after going there for dinner. From the moment I set foot in the restaurant I fell in love with it completely. The […] More

  • The Weird Ones

    Bucketlists, like New Years resolutions, are things I have never been very good at sticking with. I forget about them, get over them, or realise that they make no significant difference to my life and decide to focus on something else that interests me more. Until now. Now I have a mission. It’s a mission […] More

  • Spiro’s Hout Bay Review

    I wrote a long intro. I liked it. It made me giggle. But with the amount of food I am about to take you through, a long intro wouldn’t be appreciated. Spiro’s is an Authentic Greek restaurant in the heart of Hout Bay. Although I’m not normally one for travelling (originally from Durban, it’s engrained […] More

  • Saucy Asian Meatballs Recipe

    On Sunday, a few of us got together to have dinner and afterwards play a bit of Nintendo Wii & 30 Seconds. Our host made a few traditional Bulgarian dishes while everyone else brought a little something as well. In the end, we were around 10 people with enough food to feed an entire football […] More

  • Sushibox Opening Review

    Everyone who has read my Aqua reviews (yes, I wrote two), knows how much I love Terry Zhou’s sushi. The restaurant itself may not have been run all that well, but you could never fault it on the quality, range and inventiveness of the sushi. But then Aqua closed down. The night I found out […] More

  • Plum Crumble Cake Recipe

    Ingredients for the Base 150g Flour 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder 100g Sugar Vanilla Extract 2 eggs 100g soft Butter Combine 150g flour with a pinch of baking powder. Then add vanilla extract, 2 eggs & 100g butter (place it in the microwave for a few seconds if its still too cold). Mix the ingredients thoroughly […] More

  • The Reserve Review

    Over the last few months, I read and heard about this club slash restaurant slash bar, which opened up in Cape Town, called “The Reserve”. I heard it was fancy. I heard it was pretentious. I heard that it was extravagant. I heard that only the rich and famous went there. I heard so much […] More