Cheese. Love it, even the mouldy and smelly ones. Someone had the great idea to setup a cheese restaurant using the same idea as some sushi restaurants. A conveyor belt loops around a preparation area carrying different coloured plates. On each plate there is cheese covered by a glass dome. Each cheese is pair with something.
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Ingredients 500g strong white bread flour, plus a little extra for kneading 320ml warm water 7g instant yeast 7g salt 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tbsp brown sugar 2 tbsp molasses Sunflower or olive oil, for greasing the bowl
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Ingredients 80g plain flour mixed with 20g of self-raising flour 2 eggs 200ml whole milk 100ml water 1 tbsp sunflower oil 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking powder Butter for frying
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An Antarctic rock with a mysterious past. The Fuji (AGB-5001) was a Japanese icebreaker that called yearly at Cape Town on its return trip from icy Antarctica between 1966 and 1976. On one trip, some of the crew met my father. As a gesture of goodwill they gifted him a rock, said to be from Antarctica. The rock was carefully mounted on a wooden base with a supporting column and carved indents to keep it in place. The rock took a prize position in my childhood room. Like an old friend it, travelled with me through every move.
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