Lockdown Journal: Day 31 (Baking Bread)
If you’re new to this blog series and don’t know what’s happening with South Africa’s 21-day (now 35-day) lockdown, my first post has all the details. Or read all my lockdown posts. It's Day 31 of [...]
Mallies Spice Works: The Place to Buy Spices in Joburg
Sometimes I buy spices, thinking the fragrant, colorful little packets might motivate me to cook something. Unfortunately that rarely happens and the spices get old and sticky and I wind up throwing them away [...]
Learning to Cook, Faldela’s Way
My #HelloWeekend trip to Cape Town was nearly a month ago and I'm woefully behind in writing about it. But I can't let any more time pass before telling you about my Cape Malay cooking [...]
Domesticating With Daily Dish
I enjoy cooking and I used to cook regularly. But in recent years, for reasons I don't completely understand, cooking vanished from my life. It happened gradually -- I started eating out more, food-shopping less, [...]
Spar’s Magic Bread
Two days ago I went to Spar, the grocery store in Melville, with my friend Anita. Anita noticed something in the refrigerated section near the bakery. “Look at that!” Anita shouted. There was a [...]
Brunching With Bing
Joe and I recently received an invitation to brunch at the home of our friend Karen, a.k.a. Bing. (Her name is Karen. Her name is Bing. She has other names too, but I won’t [...]
The Lucky 5 Star Curry House
I still remember my first taste of Indian food — chicken tikka masala from the Bombay Peacock Grill in Columbia, Maryland, sometime in the late 1990s. It was love at first bite. Years later, [...]