Day 1

I started a 20-day challenge to cook 20 different dishes I've never made before. (Note: TAKING FOOD & HOME KINDA PICTURES OF CHOW IS FREAKEN HARD, so I'm snapping raw)

Today I made filo pastry corn and feta samoosas :) thought it would take a short time, but all the rolling and pasting got tedious after samoosa 10. About the taste... it's really not bad seeing that it was my first attempt at filo pastry and triangular food.

Flavours of India

Naan bread and lamb accompaniment

Connecting reserving a table to dining at the then three star Eastern Boulevard Holiday Inn restaurant in Cape Town in the late 80s was second nature until watching Date Night earlier this year. 

Seeing that this was my first restaurant reservation – I wanted to do it just right. So after practicing my lines, I picked up my receiver  and without  any hesitation dialled the number and made a reservation for two people, at exactly 6.30pm that very evening. 

Friday's fascination

Obsessing over:

Olivia Bee photographs, again;

wrap variations;

 and, Quadron's simple version of a favourite Michael Jackson track.

Foodish behaviour II

Tuesday's tale II

The little woman hoped they would have a good house. She looked out at the rain until the melancholy of the wet street effaced all the trustfulness and enthusiasm from her twisted features. Then she gave a little sigh & said, - Ah, well! We did our best, the dear knows.

- James Joyce, Dubliners