This city is undoubtedly one of the best places in the world to eat.
Get a local taxi driver to recommend his favourite dish (in writing) and someone else to suggest the restaurant where you could order it (in writing!). In my case it turned out to be thinly sliced squid in mild chilis eaten at [...]
The Ikamva Youth Kitchen Club is underway. We try to cook for 100-120 poor South African school kids after their tutoring sessions on Saturday. The kitchen club is run by ex-learners, so it’s a nice way to give back for them. Check out the pictures on flickr.com.
The first weekend we cooked a truly South African [...]
yesterday monday night dinner (need to update blog on what on earth monday night dinner is):
vegetarian burger, grilled aubergines (eggplant), zucchini, tomatoe, garlic on a toasted pita bread (something was missing / i think sundried tomatoe pesto)
very German main course, boiled potatoes with quark, smoked salmon, cucumber salad, hmmmmm - delicious
desert mania, lena brought fruit [...]
This is not about cartoons - this is about the almighty LAAARD.Having been a long time Pastafarian myself, I endorse the Carbonara Compromise, and am happy to accept up to 50% of pork in my bolognese. However, as every true believer will know, it’s Aglio Olio that rules the Pastafarian universe — and there is no meat in that.
Just noticed that searching for “gnocchi in argentina” finds hmmyum.net in fourth spot. Help us rise to the top — we want to be your first thought when it comes to enjoying potatoe dumplings in south america.
A recent conversation with an Argentinian colleague and friend — appropriately conducted over cooking Spaghetti Napoli in our guest house kitchen — brought out some interesting details on Gnocchi…. But Gnocchi has also become a term for those public servants that don’t show up for work only on the 29th, in order to collect their salary.I love Gnocchi with Gorgonzola (and maybe Spinach), but could not find a recipe that I liked online.There is a whole show on gnocchi on KQED (public broadcasting for California).
When you are ready, add a little flour to the cherrys and bring the whole mix to a boil to thicken the juice…. The result looks like very dark smoked sausage (which is what I thought it was when I first saw one).
The purchase was prompted by a recent article in ZEIT Wissen (in German), which describes how to make a good cup of coffee using a coffee-grinder in combination with an old-fashioned drip-filter…. I am not sure if it is an anecdote, but I read somewhere that Icelanders even take their own coffee when they travel to Italy — as they don’t trust any other nation could make equally good coffee.After almost 10 days of experimenting with my drip-filter I finally went on a quest for a good cappuccino in Maastricht, and found it at Coffeelovers.
Say hello if you come visit (and I am back from Holland / Feb 2006).Royal Eatery — great place for a quick burger if you can stand the slightly over-the-top young artsy-fartsy crowd…. Have a Royal with double-cheese and a shake and you are all set.There are many many others — you must have the chocolate beef at madame zingara, melissa’s on kloof has a great lunch buffett, posticino in sea point makes the best pizza, etc. — but I will close here.
More from the amazing people at Birds Boutique Cafe in Cape Town. Organic wine tasting evening on 29 July …