In an effort to increase my cooking skill level and because I control what everyone eats every night, I started vegetarian Thursdays last week. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I love to cook. I love spending at least 20 minutes every afternoon fantasizing about what I am going to cook for supper….
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The top 5 soups for #Winter
The best part of winter is the hearty food. The preparation time gets longer as the days get shorter. A good hearty soup at the end of the day makes all your problems go away. While I can’t and won’t give away exactly what goes into my soups, I can give you an idea and…
My week in the hospital
While clearing up some space on my phone, I came across all these photos of the food I ate while in the hospital. Before you worry about me, I was sick or in an accident, I recently gave birth to a healthy baby girl. So the food sometimes shocked me with how good it was,…
Rum Tum Tum: #JoburgCraftRumFestival
I saw a little competition that I knew I should enter. Yes, it is unlikely that a wine snob would be entering an event that is not wine related but 2018 was named the year for exploring. Exploring new tastes includes all that South Africa has to offer which until 2018, I never knew was…
Noisy Restaurants Actually Influence How Diners Order, New Study Says
(taken from food and wine) Increasing the volume in a restaurant can lead to unhealthy dining choices. In recent years, plenty of studies—many of them conducted by Oxford University’s Charles Spence—have surfaced on how sound can affect how food tastes, with loud noises making food taste blander. (Research even suggests that we can attribute bad-tasting…
Winter wines for 2018
If you’re in the southern hemisphere, you can already feel that it’s getting darker earlier and it’s darker in the mornings. We’re clearly entering winter which means your drink preference should change too. This past summer was one of the hottest ever. I spent most of days drinking semi sweet white wine and throwing in…
Something fishy: Fishermans Deli
Just before the Easter weekend, I spent the entire week in Cape Town working and attending a friend’s wedding. Every night we went out to eat and steak or lamb chops was my choice of protein. I got over the whole meat thing when I returned home and started planning how I was going to…
The Hot Skillet, The Cape’s hidden Gem
A Lady Vera year is never complete without popping into the Mother City. Usually, my trip consists of spending my days on wine farms tasting some of the best vino this country has to offer but this time, it went a little different. Two years ago, my friends from the UK sent us an invite…
Salmon Croissant sandwich
How is it that every year, at the same time I make a sandwich so epic that I need to tell the world about it? Last year was the chick parmesean sandwich and this year, I stepped it up a notch and created this masterpiece. My mother and I surprisingly long time in this shop…
3 dessert: Mass #Christmas
In a massive turns of events, instead of jetting off to a camping site and roughing it for 5 days, my husband and I have decided to host Christmas lunch for the first time. To give you context on the situation, every Christmas, either my mom, my aunt or uncle host a get together with…
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