When you are young and in love you go out your way to be romantic. Flowers, movies, open the door, whispers in the ear, special dinners and and and. When you get slightly older and have kids, just spending a little time together on your own without the kids is seen as romantic. For us it is anyway. Now when you get to combine both of these, you know you have a winner on your hands. And a winner I…
Who doesn't love a pie? I don't mean those heartburn for hours garage pies but rather a proper "home made" farm stall type pie with real meat. Like the ones that caught my eye at Crossways Country Kitchen on Saturday. Beef or Venison. Take your pick.
I don't think there is anybody out there (except obviously vegetarians or vegans) who doesn't love a good steak. Not everybody can make a good steak though. I have tried many times and just can't get it right. It's always either done to much or not enough and I think the Damselfly may even have given up on me finally producing her the perfect steak. But there are those who CAN make the perfect steak and on my visit to Umhlanga recently…
Last weekend I was tiling in the kitchen and at some stage during the afternoon we realised that we just won't be able to braai and will probably just get something quick to eat. Drama Princess wanted nothing of that and packed the wood, lit the fire and braai'd the meat. Today we've been busy packing the kitchen stuff back now that the cupboards and tiling is done and she insisted that she will braai again. And she did. All…
Third post about the Friendly Stranger this week so by now it's not really a stranger anymore. I met my friends Poekie and Shefetswe for coffee and to discuss a bit of work (seeing that we're all in the same industry). Shefetswe had the breaky while Poekie and I decided to try out their cakes. Ok, so I had a taste before I took the photo.
I always think that the guys along the coast in the Western Cape are very fortunate because of the amount of fresh fish available to them from all the fishing harbours. Whenever we get to travel in the province we like to go and have fish and chips from a local takeaway, usually overlooking the harbour and surrounds. During December we were camping in the Overberg and did a daytrip from Gansbaai to Agulhas. Somewhere in between the Damselfly mentioned that she…
The Port Elizabeth Geocachers have a WhatsApp group where we chat about caching as well as anything and everything else. One day George C12 mentioned a bakery and posted a picture of some yummy goodies he bought. A few days later he did it again and people got curious. Where was this place George C12 seem to be buying shares in? He gave the location and slowly, one by one, the cachers started visiting it. Every time somebody did they…
As we were away over Christmas we didn't have a Christmas lunch with the family. We decided to rather do it on New Year's Eve and both Ouma and the In-Laws came over for a braai tonight. Chicken sosaties, cheese sausage, kabernossies (a smoked russian type of sausage), skildpaadjies (minced liver in net fat) and braai broodjies (toasted sandwiches with cheese, onion and tomato made over the coals). As I type this my MIL's trifle is being dished up so…
Stopping at the Nanaga Farmstall for their delicious pies have become an institution over the years. Not everybody is always in the mood for a pie though. No problemo. They also have mouthwatering roosterkoek. I like mine with jam and cheese. How do you like yours?
Having a food and wine lover on a road trip means the trip is likely to be interrupted at some stage or another to indulge, or at least enjoy in moderation, either or both of these. This is what happened on a recent road trip to Cape Town with fellow tourism peeps and Geocachers Shefetswe and Erenei. We just left Storms River Village when Shefetswe got a phone call and announced that we were invited for a wine tasting at Packwood Wine Estate between…