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I love when plans come together. When you have a tiny seed of an idea and with the right kind of nurturing it starts to grow into the seedling of something amazing. Some ideas, like some seeds, when planted at the wrong time or in the wrong place never sprout but others, oh they even surprise. That ...

Food 24 used to have forums, maybe they still do but I haven't been to them in years. Most often than not,. they were filled with Vegan v.s. anti-vegan debate (read: flame wars) but soon it as obvious that there had to be a different platform for people to share recipes. So the food blogs were born ...

There is much bandied about in the blogesphere about freebies. Some love them, others hate them, some get to many and others sulk for lack of any. For me a freebie are welcomed like any gift, as long as the giver understands that I will be honest in my review (if they expect one). Canderel didn't ex...

The start of something beautiful When you have a relationship with some one for many years, living in the same house, sharing meals, you learn their preferences, their quirks. You discover what makes them turn up their nose and what makes their ears perk. After 7 years with Jack I can happily say t...

I had all the good intentions in the world, I had all the right ideas. I wrote all the details down and I was ready and willing to put it ALL here. Then life happened. You know that thing that gets in the way of what we want to do, all those things we NEED to do.  As I mentioned in the previous M...

What an interesting month February proved to be. My heart swelled at times and broke a little at other. My little boy has been hitting his milestones ahead of time which makes me so proud but at the same time my grandmother is ill and we may not get to see her in person again as she lives in Israel....

A few years ago the idea of a Saturday market was a dream. Something that happened in Europe, far away from where we were. The closest we could find here in Cape Town was a flee market and apart from a few Tannies (for my overseas readers, directly translated that means Aunty and is a less formal bu...

When I got February as my month for the Monthly Mingle I knew I wanted it to tie in to Valentines day. I didn't want it to be too cliched though and thought long and hard about what I could use that would not exclude people and what hadn't been used before. I decided to go with Heart Healthy. A l...

A while back I hosted a very successful Ready Steady Cook competition on my blog. I had a lot of fun hosting it but because I had offered prizes there was no way I could take part. That's why I farmed out my idea to anyone willing to bite so that I could have a chance to cook in it myself. Tandy ove...

Every culture seems to have a New Year of their own at different times of the year. I know for me as a Jew there are 2 New Years, Passover in Spring and "The Head of The Year" Rosh Hashana in Autumn. Then there is the secular New Year which by all accounts is just an excuse for a party. While the o...