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Enamel love and Harrie’s Pannekoek Huis

February 20, 2012

Yesterday Shane and I went on a little trip to Cullinan and I came home with some enamel love. I have been looking everywhere for plain white roatsing pans like these and now I have 2, as well as 2 pastel coloured serving dishes. I can just imagine some lavender cupcakes floating around on those lovelies. I also bought some enamel bowls for Wolves and some mini mugs to use as bill folders. I could of bought so much more, but I held back, seeing as my kitchen is busting at the seams already. I love kitchenware, I could spend muchos moola on it.

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Irene dairy farm of niceness.

October 20, 2011

 

Last weekend I thought it would be fun to Gautrain it to Pretoria. So on Sunday a bunch of us caught the train to Pretoria, then caught a taxi to Irene Dairy Farm for Sunday afternoon lunch. It was quite a roundabout way to get there, but it was a cool adventure. So if you are looking for something to do on a Sunday, you can always hop on a train, then hop in a taxi, then smash your face into a plate of good old fashion Sunday roast, followed by malva pudding and clotted cream. It took all my strength not to grab the bowl of cream and run for the hills armed with a big spoon. Damn it I love cream.

I wish that the Gautrain had a stop right in front of a funfair or something with the word ‘fun’ in it. Anywhere really. Does anyone have a rich relative slash sugar daddy they can convince to build a mini Disney like theme park? Tell them that it’ll be an excelllent adventure with excellent and nice things to do. If any of you do have such a person in your lives, let me know and I will even make a professional looking pie chart for them to ponder over. Smart hey?

Restaurant time

Dim sum-body call my name?

October 14, 2011

Ok dim sum, what is it about that this dish that makes you want to hoover hundreds of them down like the world is  going to end in the next 68 minutes? I have only recently discovered these little pouches of  awesome and now I want to know how to make them, so I can whip them up and suck them down any time I want. Are any of you trained in the art of dim sum?  Any tips for me? Anyone want to come live with me and be my personal dim sum maker? It’ll be fun, we can chat and plait each other’s hair. Any takers? Anyone?

Stubs and I went to So Yum over lunch for a chat and some food. Everything was so good, except for the dumping balls filled with melted chocolate, which you would think would of been the highlight of the afternoon. No no. No highlight, more like a small dim torch that’s running out of battery power. Sad. But my crab and cream cheese dim sum and raw vegetable spring rolls made up for them, so it all worked out in the end.

Ok, happy weekend friends x

places to go, Restaurant time

Restaurant time: The Attic

May 17, 2011

The Attic in Parkhurst on 4th Ave has been around for a while now and every time I go I have nice food. I must admit the last like 8 times I’ve been i’ve ordered the exact same dish, which is the crab linguine with lime coriander and a bit of chili, which is flipping amazing. Damn it, thinking about it now has made me hungry! It may be 11:12 in the morning, but I would scoff a plate of that down in a heartbeat and big crabby heartbeat.

I tasted some of Gina and Marina’s food too, they had chilli-salt squid (the first dish), wow that was also delicious and open artichoke lasagna with split peas, that was on special, and special it was. If I had a gun with a silencer and I knew how to use it, both these dishes would of been mine and Gina and Marina would be missed.

places to go, Restaurant time

Restaurant time: Assaggi

March 14, 2011

It’s always so difficult picking restaurants these days, either because you always go to the same ones, or you don’t know of any others around that are awesome so you land up going to the same ones. So I have decided that every time I go to a restaurant I’m going to rate the place and the food and then hopefully help some of you out of the pickle that I often myself in – where shall we go out for breakfast/lunch/dinner? If you have any places you would like to suggest, we would all appreciate it.

I’m going to start with Assaggi, which is a sweet little Italian restaurant located in the Post Office Centre on Rudd Road, opposite The Thrupps centre. Their pastas all sounded so delicious, but I was super boring at went for spaghetti bolognaise, wish I had been a bit more adventurous and headed for the asparagus lasagna (next time), but I had my boring pants on and just wanted something that I trusted, it was nice, not the best I have ever had, but it was good. The panna cotta I had for dessert on the other had was so flipping amazing, if I could of strapped a bucket of it to the front of my face, I would of!

It’s quite a pricey restaurant, but the food is good and authentically Italian, so try it out if you are in the area and trust me when I say, order the panna cotta and do not make the same mistake as I did and agree to share it. Sharing is bad and stupid!