I just love this cartoon.....

:jive:

Was just wondering whether Australia can be considered the finest sporting nation in the World?

touchy for South Africans but how about the truth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/5067980.stm


:tim:

Was Agassi in a coma???

I have a bee problem, keep ketting rid of them and they keep coming back, and seeing as I am alergic to bees this is not a good thing, they go into the side of my house and there are hundreds!!!

Anyone have anyideas on how to get them to go away and stay away? :beg:


Admin :edit: changed to lower case :thx:

Congratulations to Ade on 500

and now for the title

Blazed in Cape Green

this may be ambigious however we shall see if it is approved

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There's something about the smell of freshly baked bread that livens up the senses. Well mine in particular. I'm sure yours too.

The memories come flooding back as though it were yesterday, as a toddler sitting at the foot of my mother and hearing the clatter of pots, pans and everything else in the kitchen. The smell of the bread wafting through the air and delicately settling on my taste buds and enticing me to reach up and tear a piece off.

Hot, freshly baked bread with a good dollop of butter or schmaltz, a little salt and cracked pepper - there is nothing quite like it! A smidgen of konfyt or a delicate liver pate is simply heaven with home-baked bread

With my brother being a pastry chef and working his magic with bread, it comes as no great surprise on our many nights out after service in Cape Town's clubs we'd end up at the door to the all night bakery, begging (or should I say slurring!) for a scrap of croissant or Portuguese bread.
The smell would make you so hungry for more that inevitably you'd end up driving home on a partially sated stomach to create absolute mayhem in the home kitchen - anything to satisfy that pure, unadulterated hunger for more. The residue for the morning after would leave you wondering why your kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it, until the memories of chewing steaming croissants with friends come flooding back. Thanks boet for the memories!

Whilst more and more people are getting into the whole cooking scenario, there is one thing to guarantee a house full of hungry people on a Sunday morning - the smell of freshly baked bread.
Not only is it cathartic and sensual making your own bread, but also with a decent sense of adventure you can turn a somewhat mundane task into a work of heavenly bliss for your palate.

A great icebreaker at any dinner party is to have the freshly baked bread on the table and for your guests to break bread with you.
There's something incredibly intimate about this - as though you're connecting on a different level. It also allows you greater flexibility for getting your starters out, as everyone will be happily munching away on your bread. You can even batch make the bread and freeze it for later use in either lunch packs for the kids or romantic picnics with your loved ones.

At the restaurant we serve freshly baked bread to our guests - granted the whole batch doesn't make it for service as occasionally we get the munchies and gorge ourselves on these little pieces of heaven - whether you add a little chopped sun dried tomato or some sliced Kalamata olives to further enhance the flavours - it's completely up to you.

Getting hold of fresh yeast might be a problem initially but after a quiet word with your local bakery or supermarket I'm sure you would join the revolution for making great food at home.
As with all baking, you need time. The more passion, love and attention you put into your bread, the sweeter the smile after your first bite at the kitchen table.

copyright: Grant Hawthorne :chef: 2006

hope you all have a grand day this Monday! :thumbs:

And I'm back bright and chirpy :haha:

Two weeks of semi-normality before I take another two week break :p

Let's start off with a sports question :wall:

What is the National Football League record for the most touchdowns scored by recovering the fumbles of opponents?

I must be one amongst many who did not give poor old Ireland a chance against the mighty silver ferns.

Still although the All blacks were not firing on all cylinders for most of the match I was very impressed with the Ireland performance.

How did you see it?

My sister in law has had endless problems getting her visa from sa...

Here is the problem : she has got all her birth certificates including the grandparent that was born here (UK), to cut a very long story short her birth certificate was rejected because it was in a batch that was fraudulant !!! She was told to apply for a Vault Birth Certificate (which Ive NEVER heard of) which she got and paid R400 now she is told that she has to appeal that she is still eligible for the ancestral but this could take anything from 2 weeks to 1 year. Our question is this : would she beable to apply for her ancestral visa here (UK) with all the relevant paper work - she has to appeal by Friday but first she wants to know if she could do it from here ?!?!?!?! PLEASE help anybody or send me in the direction of whomever can ...... many many thanks in advance