I love cooking

Having come op for air after preparing six pitches of the eight (for a myriad of television serieses … what is the plural of series? Serias?) we submitted for evaluation in the last month, I was instantly sadangry to see that my favourite bloggers’ latest posts are once more pushed to the bottom of the leader board (Blogs home page) by some self-entitled expedient common flippen arseholes invading our space to sell their crap online. I recently received the longest, probably 20000 characters of URLS selling viagra that was posted to my blog’s comments. Now, chicks, at my age, I no longer require Viagra or the people who use it. In fact, if I saw one of those in my house or yard or anywhere else, in his birthday suit walking behind the extended results of the viagra, I’d first call my crew to record the proceedings for posterity, and then do what Misses Bobbit did not have the heart to do ….  Anyway, this and more blog gripes are on my to-do list and freed-up now, I will see what can be done to these spammers and other matters.

But, time to get back to food – for the next few months until we hear if any of our pitches was successful, my focus wil be on food. Especially I love cooking food, our awesome website for ordinary people. We created this website for cookin’ mommies and daddies and couples and singeltons wanting to put great good food on the table. Our food is honest, respectful, without pretence, it does not seek approvals from chefs, food critics or ‘foodies’, it uses ingredients you can easily get and mostly from your local shops, it does not push a person or personality or somebody’s name, it simply cooks: beautifully, deliciously, easily and quickly – as ordered by busy people who do not have time for showing-off grand dishes but who simply want to eat well. We have invested a fancy car’s money in this website and approached big brands to help with the funding so that we can continue doing what we love and also, continue to give the consumer something of value online that is free and totally unconditional. We sell nothing, expect nothing and in fact, we do not even push the funding brands in anybody’s face!

So, that is our baby for now but it’s going to include you. We (my incredible daughter and business partner Michéle) are busy with concepts that will make you happy and give you some well-deserved exposure. Since I started blogging I have made some very good friends (and even manage to greatly pee a few off with my opinions) and with every contact I have with an active blogger, I am left humbled time and time again. It touches me to  hear and see and feel the passion, the breath, the life, the love with which they approach all matters food. This is a joy to behold and it needs to be acknowledged and rewarded. We can not reward you financially, but we can bring on the tributes and accolates. So start prayers and postulations that we succeed (like all  great plans, we need advertising funders) and in about ten days or so, we will reveal all to you.

And back to my own life for a moment – gee it feels I’ve been away for years …!! Yes, I could (and had to) go shopping yesterday (with much resentment and sighs and sorry-for-myselves) and afterwards, hit the sack. Hard. This morning, it feels that life is getting back to normal again and I bought the ingredients for sandwiches. I love sandwiches and even have categories. Dry or Wet (eating over a plate as it drips counts for ‘wet’). Hot or Cold (oviasly, toasted is hot) and Stacked, Open or Closed. I even have Single, Double or Platter. Go figure. At my local Shoprite (yes, I know … but this is the Strand, sigh …) I grabbed a really great ciabatta. It should still be OK (I’ll grill it) and then soon, in a few hours in fact, I am going to have a Caesar Salad Stacked Sandwich! I am not going to give you the recipe as you simply:

• Grill slices of ciabatta lightly (sprinkle them lightly with olive oil before)
• Rub them with a fresh clove of garlic on one side.
• Top with cos lettuce leaves, slices of grilled chicken breast and shavings of  Parmesan cheese.
• Serve well-seasoned and with Caesar Salad Dressing on the side to drizzle or dip or olive oil, whichever floats your boat. (Now I get it Sam!)  

And if you want to grill the most terrific chicken breast fillets, click on the title below.

Juicy Grilled Chicken Breasts

That’s it for now, and in mitigation for my tardy blogging lately ….  this here below is what I have been up to. Each pitch is about 30 pages deep and wide and long and has to have budgets in which  EVERY single THING has to be accounted for. The budgets are about 12 pages long each …

(A variety series for erm…. people born between 1946 and 1960 … go figure)

(A heavy drama in Afrikaans … we are not ALWAYS plesierig … like below …)

(An Afrikaans game show … )

(A reality drama … real drama without a script about real people in real situations …. don’t you just love it!?)

(Reality show about people in financial trouble and hoping we can solve it for them … or our experts, at least!)

(For the little ones ….. a daily!! Ouch! But we want … and so the one below …)

So you see?  No kidding when I say busy and tired…. and on that note, here goes with the next project and to use the famous ”The show will go on!” Hopefully, it’s about you and us! But before I say more I have to say thank you to my two sisters who offered to cook, gave encouragement, inspiration and I swear if I called, they would have been here … thank you beloved Nina and Janice !!!

That’s it. Watch this space. Untl then, cheers dears! XXX