Help, I’ve eaten them all. Well apart from one or two which I sent to school with my daughter, but basically I have single-handedly scoffed them all. It’s all Marce’s fault. Marce is the blogger of Pip in the City who chose this month’s DB challenge – cinnamon rolls. Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought, [...]

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Sandwiches are simple and are often merely opportunistic creations. Whatever is in the fridge is shuffled around and reworked into something delicious. Sometimes this is great at the time but not really worth repeating. Not so, this combo. Try different variations of soft cheese, fruit and charcuterie and you’ll still have a winner.

Lightly toast a [...]

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If you’re not South African you probably won’t recognise this strap line from a famous advert for cremora coffee creamer, but I used it nevertheless as my idea of a ’sarnie’ or sandwich, or even ’samie’ to us Suid Afrikaners, is not always something wedged between 2 stodgy slices. Bizarrely, much as I love baking [...]

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This is such a quick and simple salad that it really relies on perfect ingredients. Make sure your lettuce is fresh, your avocado and figs ripe, and your Serrano ham and Balsamic vinegar of the best possible quality. Some good crusty bread would not do any harm either.

Wash and spin dry some fresh lettuce – [...]

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