One sip at a time
If you follow me on Twitter (I hope you are) then you will see what coffee we are currently drinking and enjoying. There is nothing better than a cup of coffee made from freshly ground beans and South African roasters make incredible coffee. The usual way we get to try out new beans is from The Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great
On 13 August Neil and I will celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. For the first night of our marriage we stayed at Granny Mouse Country House as it was known then. I remember driving at night with a toilet paper and shaving foam covered car – Neil actually had to stop and remove toilet paper from the windscreen so that
It is not every day that you get invited to a book launch and what a privilege it is to listen to the author thank those people who made their book a reality. Often it takes a lot of sweat, tears and even blood to produce a book. Although in the case of a recipe book I would think
My husband has desperately needed a getaway from the stress and strain of work but he was unable to join us for the trip to Gooderson Monks Cowl, but fortunately he was able to get away this past weekend with me (5 and 6 March). We booked for another of Gooderson’s resorts – Drakensberg Gardens Golf & Spa Resort. It
I said in my blog post on our trip to Monks Cowl Golf Resort that I would share a few photos of our stop on the way to the Drakensberg and on the return home. It is about a 3 hour trip to Monks Cowl so we only stopped once and that was in Nottingham Road at The CoffeeSmiths
You know when you rave about something whether a restaurant or a place you have stayed at and then the next time you go you are disappointed? Well this was NOT the case with our return to Monks Cowl. Everything from the booking of the rooms (confirmed at 7:50pm!), the checking in, the stay and the checking out was fabulous!
This year we intend to do more coffee related activities and next up on our list was to do the tour of the Assagay Coffee Farm. We have for many years seen their calico bags of coffee in our local Spar and we have of course bought their already ground coffee (that was when we didn’t have a grinder).
Welcome to 2016 and what a better way to start the year than writing about coffee – after all I do Run On Coffee! On Monday 28 December we set off for a very pleasant drive down the South Coast to Port Edward and the Beaver Creek Coffee Estate. It was a typical hot and humid Kwazulu-Natal day
Today I am sharing with you the most delicious muffin recipe and it truly does taste like carrot cake. I have never iced them but I am sure it would taste extra amazing with a cream cheese icing. The recipe comes out of a book called “The Muffin Bible” and is the most made recipe from it. There are