Snow is something we don’t see often in Cape Town so when Jackie and I spotted snow on the mountains by Franschoek, we decided to take a road trip. We arranged for Wes and Zelna to meet us on Sunday morning at our place. I had planned the trip – Ceres via Worcester – but had no idea where to drive to get close to the snow. Saturday night I was googling frantically for sites and directions/info on where to go. Here is the Ceres Tourism site (90’s flashback of a site) and the weather site wasn’t very detailed. As for finding a map with directions, I wasn’t holding my breath.
I am not a huge fan of Corvettes but after watching this, I am tempted to visit their website. This video, recently released by General Motors, shows you how it performs at the hands of a pro around the 20.8km Nurburgring. The time was 7 minutes 26.4 seconds: NOTE:If the video says ‘No longer available, just refresh this page a few times until it works.
The driver was Jim Mero and he was driving the 2008 Cheverolet Corvette ZR1 which looks like this: continue reading »
We booked to go on the Independence of the Seas in May 2007 so we had been waiting for our departure date of 25 May 2008 for a loooong time. I had also decided around December 2007 that it was time I took the next step (engagement) with Jackie and my relationship. Because we were going on the trip, I thought I may as well wait and make it a little more special by asking her overseas. I wanted to surprise her so everything was top secret, not even her family knew at this stage.
I enjoy cooking, it’s something that relaxes me. I can forget about the code and focus on creating something else.
On the boat we ate quite a bit of ‘Angus’ Sirloin, I also had it a few times in the UK – seems Sirloin is a more popular cut up north. I have never been a fan of pan-fried steaks having grown up around braai’s but they managed to get it tasting pretty damn good. So the other day Jackie and I were shopping and I grabbed a 2-pack of ‘matured sirloin’ (from Superspar @ Paddocks) which looked pretty good. I also grabbed some red onions, red wine and watercrest. I set out making my first pan-fried sirloin. I fried the steaks in a hot pan with a little oil and when we sat down to eat, the steaks were appalling. It was actually one of the worst steaks I had ever eaten and I was horrified that I had produced it. The only other pan-fried steaks I had attempted were rumps and those seemed to come out okay? So what went wrong? How could I have totally destroyed this cut of meat? I had to get this right. continue reading »
