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22 Jul2014

Things have been a bit slow on the blog over the past two weeks… if you only knew why… :)

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POSTED IN: General

21 Jul2014

Traipsing through several vineyards a day may not be the ideal activity for an 18 year-old on holiday, but our daughter was a good sport about it.

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POSTED IN: General, Travel & Leisure

17 Jul2014

Another special vineyard/winery, hotel and restaurant complex that we visited in Stellenbosch is the Delaire Graff Estate.

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POSTED IN: General, Travel & Leisure

16 Jul2014

How could you resist a visit to the Babylonstoren Farm Shop with still lifes of vegetables/produce like this beautifully arranged and left as eye candy throughout the utterly charming space?

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POSTED IN: General, Markets, Food stores & Provedores, Travel & Leisure

15 Jul2014

Our guide in Cape Town sent Mrs. MM this visual through Facebook and obviously I cracked up. I truly dislike jellyfish, particularly the ones that sting. But clearly, they will survive for long, long after I am gone…

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POSTED IN: General, Rant & Rave

13 Jul2014

Dried shrimp exoskeletons, unbelievably tart bignay fruit and ginormous but rather tasteless “California” mangoes.

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POSTED IN: Fruit, General, Other Food Products, Kitchen Equipment, Etc., Seafood

12 Jul2014

A few people emailed me after my previous post asking for “more detailed” instructions on how to do the tomahawk steaks on the grill.

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POSTED IN: Beef/Lamb, etc., General, Main Courses, Meat

10 Jul2014

It was a casual dinner, and some of us were even dressed in shorts…

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POSTED IN: Appetizers, General, Main Courses, Meat, Seafood, Vegetables

“Fish Tacos” a la Marketman

09 Jul, 2014  by Marketman

It’s a bit cheeky for me to add the “a la Marketman” in the title of this post.

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POSTED IN: Appetizers, Fruit, General, Restaurant Meals, Seafood, Vegetables

A Cheery and Casual Setting for a Major Milestone of a Birthday…

07 Jul, 2014  by Marketman

Mrs. MM and I had really BOTH celebrated our 50th birthdays early, with a wonderful trip to South Africa.

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POSTED IN: Flowers, General

Tomatoes & Roses from DowntoEarth…

06 Jul, 2014  by Marketman

Fabulous.

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POSTED IN: Flowers, General, Produce, Rant & Rave, Vegetables

South Africa 22 — The Gardens of Babylonstoren

01 Jul, 2014  by Marketman

A must see, period.

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POSTED IN: General, Travel & Leisure

Hahahaha…

30 Jun, 2014  by Marketman

The photo above accompanied an email from Footloose which read…

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Inasal na Manok at Atay Sisig

29 Jun, 2014  by Marketman

I had no intention of making this sisig dish with chopped up inasal na manok at atay (grilled chicken and livers).

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POSTED IN: Appetizers, Chicken/Fowl, Fowl/Poultry, General

Tinkering with 5 Kinilaws (Ceviches) a la Marketman/Zubudagat

28 Jun, 2014  by Marketman

I interrupt South African posts with this one on several kinilaws (ceviches) I have been testing and refining and weighing and finalizing for Zubudagat’s menu.

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POSTED IN: Fish, General, Seafood

South Africa 21 — Hunting Down James Bond’s Next Bottle of Wine (touring Stellenbosch & Franschhoek Wine Country)

27 Jun, 2014  by Marketman

Two days of touring vineyards in South African wine country and the prospect of tasting some two dozen different bottles of wine may seem like a wonderful thing, but you kind of have to…

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POSTED IN: General, Travel & Leisure