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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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…
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…
Someone get me some wagyu beef steak
My journey of exploring amazing food started when I started living alone and learned how to develop flavours on a limited budget. Since then I have opened my mind and experienced some of the best food this planet has to offer. My brother has since introduced me to some of the tastiest red meat ever…
#Dubai2017: Food, food and food
So, I know it’s late but an experience like this is not exactly something you forget so I guess it’s better late than never! I spent just over a week with my friends in the UAE for a well-deserved girl’s trip. We couldn’t keep it just the girls as we shipped my best guy friend,…
OBSESSED: Anchovies
I was first introduced to this amazing fish when I was in pre primary and for lunch they served us anchovy paste (fish paste) on bread. I will not even lie. I absolutely hated it. It was a weird shade of pink, had an odd smell and it probably doesn’t help that we were forced…
Pink Table Project is back!
What is the Pink Table Project? The Pink Table Project has 2 goals: 1. Raise awareness about the role of healthy eating in cancer prevention and cancer awareness as a whole. 2. Raise as much money for cancer beneficiaries as possible. How does it work? On 4 February 2017, World Cancer Day, restaurants will host…
Meetup: Wellington Wines
A night with Wellington wines. Have you ever thought about what Indian food and wine taste like? In all my wine days, I have never ever drank wine while eating Indian food. So this was my opportunity to eat and dine in style. The setting this time was Thava restaurant in Norwood. It’s in a…
What Your Drink Of Choice Says About You
While you will likely order many different drinks over the course of your life, there will always be that one you fall back on for comfort’s sake. So, it’s important to get that drink right. Just like your hairstyle, your signature drink should reflect you and the vibe you exert; just imagine how weird…
Wine: Tips on storage
I am a lover of wine. My fiancé and I travel to the cape vineyards at least twice a year to explore what’s new in the South African market. My journey started in my adolescent days, stealing really expensive wine from my parent’s collection and it ventured to buying the cheapest wine at university and…
Its Lady Vera 