Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | Education, Friendships, Life Lesson, Photography, Questions, Tips / Learning, food, thoughts | 1 Comment
On Sunday I was invited to lunch at a friend’s parents’ home -It was her birthday the day before and so celebrations continued the next day.
(now for typing’s sake, I’m abbreviating the word Portuguese to read P…okay?)
Where I grew up, I never had a P friend, never had a P class mate nor did I ever eat at a P‘’s home before.
The area I now reside in used to be all be P owned. In the last five years of my staying here, I have only met one P guy from the area – and so still no real culture check, well at least until Sunday that is.
I felt comfortable and “at home” when I saw the food all laid out on the table. It reminded me of my mom’s Sunday lunch. Each portion in its own glass bowl, each bowl with its own spoon, each person dishes up their own plate of food, all exactly like it used to be for me when I was living with my mom.
The food was no stranger to me – so familiar – even in the taste of it. There was the sweetened butternut with cinnamon, the broccoli and cauliflower, for the meat eaters there was roast chicken, savoury rice but like savoury because its brown of the onions not using spice for rice, sweet potatoes, heck I can’t remember all of the nice stuffies – was just damn good food.
Whilst eating, I looked around in their back yard, noticed how familiar the gardening style was,this again reminded me of my grandmas garden. She used to have grapevines (but the grapes never grew THAT well), the apple tree, the peach/plum whatever tree, guava, banana (even though bananas never really grew) and more.
It got me thinking… › Continue reading
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Celebration, Entertainment, Friendships, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Personal, food | No Comments
@ch00n’s car was being moody all weekend so we couldn’t go anywhere. Today we just HAD to do something about not having transport. Like an angel, my landlord came down and suggested we go out for lunch – he drove. We had to sit through a really torturous slow drive that normally takes us 15 minutes get to, but took us nearly 45 minutes today. Sigh, how we missed being mobile today.
What made it worse, there is construction taking place on almost all of Cape Town’s freeways. We were all hungry and decided it would be quicker to take the N1 highway to Pizza Grill King (PGK) in Goodwood. › Continue reading
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | Celebration, Friendships, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Music Related Links, Opinion, Personal, Relationships | 2 Comments
My inbox rolling with party invites and reminders for events happening around Cape Town for New Years Eve.
What’s the big deal anyways? I used to be big on the celebrating – guess I have outgrown that now. I used to go to Synergy parties that used to be held at the River Club in Observatory. Those were fun parties. Kinda like what Vortex is doing these days having Bands, Trance etc – many options not just one genre.
Synergy used to › Continue reading
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Celebration, Friendships, Relationships | Enter your password to view comments
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