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COMPETITION: Win 2 Tickets to Taste of Cape Town
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Today we are announcing a competition for all our loyal Cape Town based readers, or any of our readers who will be in Cape Town at the time.
We are giving away a double entrance …

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Basically Quick Chocolate Mousse
Tuesday, 9 Feb, 2010 – 2:21 | View Comments
Basically Quick Chocolate Mousse

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There’s no need to spend a fortune this Valentine’s Day and anyway, most of us have been affected by the economic downswing in some way or other, so we can’t.  It is important, though, that …

Bourbon – Chocolate Genoise with Bourbon Chocolate Icing
Friday, 5 Feb, 2010 – 20:00 | View Comments
Bourbon – Chocolate Genoise with Bourbon Chocolate Icing

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And then there was bourbon! Nobody really knows when bourbon was first made and who made it – it could have been Jacob Spears who was the first person to label his tipple ‘Bourbon whiskey’, …

Australia – Food of the Land Down Under
Friday, 22 Jan, 2010 – 20:03 | View Comments
Australia – Food of the Land Down Under

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The first humans probably settled in Australia around 40,000 – 70,000 years ago (the earliest human to be found, Mungo Man is about 40,000 years old). and the Aborigines (there must have been at …

Cancer and Green Tea – Green Tea Ice Cream
Thursday, 14 Jan, 2010 – 13:44 | View Comments
Cancer and Green Tea – Green Tea Ice Cream

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Whilst smoking is not tolerated here at JFN there’s no point in sticking one’s head under the sand and pretend that nobody smokes. We are all well aware of the dangers of smoking and we …

Christmas Cozonac
Monday, 14 Dec, 2009 – 20:15 | View Comments
Christmas Cozonac

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Cozonac is a sweet, yeast-raised egg-rich bread that is gloriously tasty and filled with  nuts, poppy seeds or raisins. In the next two weeks, kitchens throughout Romania will be filled with the aroma of orange …

Rompope, Eggnog from Puebla
Tuesday, 8 Dec, 2009 – 12:22 | View Comments
Rompope, Eggnog from Puebla

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It is said that this eggnog recipe was created by the colonial- era nuns at the Convent of Santa Clara in Puebla! Whether this is true or not, is relatively unimportant but but everyone knows …

Sweet Bay Tarts
Friday, 18 Sep, 2009 – 16:54 | View Comments
Sweet Bay Tarts

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As unusual as it may seem, whole bay leaves can be used in cakes and desserts with really great results. Here the ancient laurel is used to flavour and give an unusual new depth to …

Honeyed Health – Honey Cake
Friday, 11 Sep, 2009 – 15:50 | View Comments
Honeyed Health – Honey Cake

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Honey, one of the most assimilable carbohydrate compounds, is a really practical and utterly delicious way to ingest one of the most effective foods for generating, creating and replacing energy in the body and helps …

Basically Orange and Rosemary Cookies
Wednesday, 9 Sep, 2009 – 20:17 | View Comments
Basically Orange and Rosemary Cookies

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It’s always handy to have a couple of tins of cookies in the cupboard for unexpected guests with children or simply for the unexpected guests. Period. They can be turned into desert in only a …

Oranges and Cakes
Wednesday, 9 Sep, 2009 – 16:32 | View Comments
Oranges and Cakes

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Cake is always a treat and even though some of us aren’t really partial to sweet things, these recipes have to tempt even the most hardened ‘cake-haters’ among us. Naturally we couldn’t resist including a …