On a quest to find the perfect Banana Cake recipe - last night tried an old favourites from the Friends' Cookbook , 'Marcel's Banana Bread' (yes, in honour of the super-cheesy TV series - Marcel was Ross's monkey **ahem**).
This was made with the addition of dried cranberries, for which I have been …
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You know those people who say that Heinz Ketchup is the best, the one and only? They know squat. The taste of cheap vinegar somehow comforts them. We're better than that.
This shit is expensive, about £4.95 per bottle (compared with about NZ$3 domestic pricing). Some people get …
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I always thought that Marmite was a UK invention and a brand, a love-it-or-hate-it concoction quintessentially British.
Yet again this dull little island needs to realise that things made outside of the UK are so much better....
Produced in New Zealand, Sanitarium Marmite looks like UK Marmite, tastes like the …
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One of the new 7 wonders of the world, Chichen Itza is the remnants of an ancient Mayan city that was swallowed up by the jungle after Spanish colonisation. Now restored, and populated mainly by tourists and souvenir sellers, it's worth the approx. 2.5 hour trek from Cancun.
Entry …
read moreJust back from a trip to Cancun!!!!
Stopped off in Valladolid on the way to Chichen Itza, grabbed snacks at a street festival for the Day of the Dead.
Churros and ice cream on offer, had a torta, not sure what the meat was but it was spicy and much …
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