One sip at a time
Shew! It’s been an eventful and fun two weeks! My sister Carryn came down from Jhb to spend time with my Mom and of course with me as well. But that is actually the wrong place for me to start. I had won a stay at any Protea Hotel for two nights in December 2015 and with the busyness of
I first heard about and tasted African Roots Coffee when we received a bag of their Tanzanian beans from the Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great Coffee Club in September 2015. We (my husband and I) subsequently chatted to the owner, Mark Platt, at that years Good Food & Wine Show in Durban. The next time I saw Mark Platt was when
We have been using the French Press to make coffee for many, many years. In the beginning we bought ground coffee from the supermarket #horror. Finally we invested in a coffee grinder nearly two years ago and were amazed at the taste difference. We also started buying coffee beans from The Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great Coffee Club and from coffee
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
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
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
I have wanted to make a coffee cake for quite some time now and yesterday was the day I finally made it. The first book I looked in and my favourite and most used recipe book had a recipe for coffee cake. Neil and I are coming up for our 21st wedding anniversary in August this year and we received
On the 28th May I went to collect my parents for my Mother’s birthday surprise. I had told them that I needed to fetch them at 1:45pm in order to reach our destination before 2:30pm. We drove and drove and my Mom got more excited and interested as to where we were going. Eventually we reached Umhlanga and I