Paul's homemade ice cream and waffle day!

I spent part of Sunday afternoon  indulging at Paul's Homemade Ice cream & Waffle Day. No better way to spend a Sunday than eating waffles topped with my favourite home made ice cream by Paul Ballen. 

I heard of Paul almost two years ago, through my brother's girlfriend, ordered a tub or two of ice cream for that Christmas and I've been hooked ever since. It's real authentic (yes I said real authentic lol) custard based ice cream.

At the waffle day I had my favourite the Madagascan Vanilla and tried something new the Flambe Banana. The flambe banana has subtle real banana flavour, with the tiniest bits of salted caramel. I believe the caramel bits are from the flambe-ing the banana with sugar.

Do yourself a favour and order a tub or two! My ice cream connoisseur friends agree it's AMAZE and well worth the price!

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Mushroom fix Chopping Board Chit Chat on Woolworths facebook page

Mushrooms are one of my favourite ingredients. Check out my take on the shroom via the Woolworths Facebook page Chopping Board Chit Chat with me!

Craving crab cakes

On my list of favourite things to eat are crab cakes. That salty meaty flavour, served on sandwich or alone with an aioli Yum! There's something about it that touches my heart - yes food equals love to me!

On my 2011 top ten eats is this crab cake sandwich I had at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's market in San Francisco. Crab cake, lettuce, tomato on a fresh toasted sourdough baguette. It was heavenly one hand eating on a Saturday morning.

One of my favourite brunch spots in New York Ze Cafe serves a combination of a perfectly poached egg and a crab cake. That burst egg yolk and the slightly salty sea tasting crab meat is a winner - sublime! Ze Cafe crab cake served with a perfectly poached egg and hollandaise sauce on spinach. 

One thing I don’t get is why I can never find crab cakes in Jozi and dare I say South Africa. I mean we have an abundance of fishcakes especially the salmon variety. Given that Mozambican crabs aren’t hard to find I just don’t understand why restaurants aren’t serving up crab cakes.

So for now I look forward to my next trip to the US where crab cakes are available in abundance. If you know of a place that serves them in Jozi, do let me know.

Starting the crab cake revolution!