Like Bruce Lee, my way is of water.
So while I don't usually respond to tags as a full blog post, I will do this for Fatima because not only am I roza-compliant, but she is almost-family and gave me a really awesome serving bowl as a wedding present.
My five current addictions are as follows:
- Fennel. The seeds, the sprigs, ground up or whole. I will add it to any dish I can get away with.
- Google reader. How could I have not latched on to this sooner!? Shame on me.
- Twitter. I'm following some of South Africa's brightest people and some brilliant buitelanders.
- Woolworths Taste Magazine
- Making coffee popsicles. See here for directions. Add a bit of elachi (cardamom) for that lekker extra.
--note-- Killa's gone and tagged me as well. Even though I didn't get a discount on the jellies I bought from their shop, he's family too (the tentacles of the charo-connections* extend into the blogosphere)
I will not tag anyone specifically. If you care to play along, leave your list in the comments section.
*aka "haga kareh" in the guji vernac, "my granny's your grandpa's cousin", "my aunty's married to your brother-in-law's sister" and on and on until you discover you've gone and married someone whose forebearers worked in the same village rice keti as your great-great-grand-dada's.
9 comments:
hehehe yes how could you not have known about google reader
shame on you :)
you must turn the coffee pops into sarbat ones :) my gran use to make for us the water and milk pops for summer in dbn :)
Ha Ha..
Discounts are a sentence away..
Ask the chinese..
@zk:I had the account set up, but never bothered to add people to it, thinking it was a hassle:) It was only when i was visiting blogs just to check out their rss sidebar widgets, did I figure I was being really stupid.
I think the sarbat pops are a granny's mainstay, mine would do the same, freezing them in ice-cube trays and handing them out to me and the neighbour's kids.
Viva nanis (and dadis) viva.
@Killa: I'll be in your hood for Eid shopping then.
haga haga :D
thanks for the coffee popsicle recipe :D this will come handy during summer! :D
i remember making the sarbat ones as a kid and putting it in a huge tupperware and hiding away from my cousins in the garden so i could be a greedy thing and eat it by myself :)
love the childhood memory! :D
Your writing... it is completely sublime.
Salaams Saaleha, seen you on the new Saffron Channel...WoW...Please do a post about it would be cool to hear all about it
coffee popsicles? i think i'm going to barf.
i did this tag too - http://expensivemistakescheapthrills.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/just-call-me-an-addict/
I could have sworn I just saw someone familiar on saffron tv...hmmmmm who could it be
oh yes, as for SaffronTalk - I did it as a favour for a friend who's a producer on the show. Didn't want to make too big a deal out of it:) It was lots of fun to do though. I hope it wasn't too cringeworthy, even though it was on loop for that entire week, I still haven't actually seen it.
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