One sip at a time
It is always such a treat to be able to get away from the fast pace of life and even more so when you can get away during the week. My husband and I were blessed to have such a moment when we went for a midweek break in the beautiful Midlands at Indigo Fields.
On Wednesday the 17th May I attended the first ever Midlands Meander Pop-Up Kitchen – a one night only fine dining experience at Granny Mouse Country House & Spa. All the food was prepared on the grill by the Culinary Artists and we dined outside under the stars. Yes it was rather chilly as this is the Midlands in Winter,
Every day I drive past Springside Cafe when I take my daughter to high school (well except on weekends and holidays). Last year on the spur of the moment I fetched my Mom from the Hospice shop in Hillcrest where she is a volunteer and took her for coffee. Springside Cafe is an oasis from the hustle and bustle of
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
Thursday 27 October was a boiling hot start to this year’s Durban Good Food & Wine Show when Durban Tourism hosted a few of the chef’s at Cafe Skyzer in Chesterville. The meat was sizzling on the braai as were all the guests as we watched the heated cook-off. The chef’s in attendance at the cook-off were Neill Anthony,
What goes through your mind when you receive an invitation to a 5 course wine pairing dinner? Do you expect to sit round a table and listen to the wine maker drone on and on about how he/she made the wine? Do you expect to sit next to serious wine drinkers who make notes on the taste and
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
Thursday 28 May was my Mom’s birthday and it has become a tradition to go somewhere to either have tea/coffee and cake or to have a full meal. My parents stay in Botha’s Hill so I wanted to go to a place that was fairly close to them. Just a few kilometres down the road from them is Talloula.