african vanielje on Jun 11 2008 | Filed under: baking, chocolate, food blogging event, ice cream
There are a few things that come to mind as quintessentially British summer: Pimms, a maximum of 3 days of actual summer, a rained out Wimbledon championship, and of course strawberries. Well we’ve now had two hot days in a row which may have broken some sort of English record, and with local [...]
african vanielje on May 25 2008 | Filed under: baking, birthday cake, breakfast, kids cooking, sweet kitchen
Buying gifts for cooks is always an easy thing to do. You can never have too many kitchen gadgets, or too large a kitchen for that matter. Lately I’ve been incredibly lucky on the kitchen gift front and this morning I put one of those gorgeous gifts to good use. On a [...]
african vanielje on May 23 2008 | Filed under: baking, superfood
This week was my daughter’s first ever school camp. She, despite her excitement overdrive was extremely organised about the whole thing. Sunday morning dawned bright and indecently early as it always does in summer. But in direct opposition to the enthusiastic dawn chorus I was determined to have a lazy Sunday [...]
african vanielje on Mar 17 2008 | Filed under: Africa, baking, meme, sweet kitchen
A week or so ago I was tagged for a MEME by Anne of Anne’s Food. She was one of the first bloggers I started reading and I’ve always been drawn to her clean clear style, so different from my wildly undisciplined ramblings. She has a few other points in her favour, not [...]
african vanielje on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Easter, baking, bread, tea
You may be forgiven for thinking that chocolate is my favourite part of Easter, but you’d be wrong. I love the acid green, I love the spring lamb, I love the Easter hunt and I love Hot Cross Buns.
When I was little my mom used to teach kindergarten. The owner of the kindergarten insisted that [...]
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