fermentedphil

A catalogue of all of my recipes and short descriptions; from traditional South African recipes, to my own experiments.

There is nothing quite like the first taste of a really good stout. Even if a stout is not the best, it is still a good beer. The complexity of these dark beers just leans toward an always enjoyable

It is not that often that everything in the universe aligns. Sometimes you just stumble upon something with the perfect lighting that just begs to be photographed. I think as a photographer we are always

We are saturated with everydayness all around us. Never ask a fish, they say, to think about the water in which it swims. Or something like that. The same goes for us humans that are so saturated with

Maybe I am the one at fault here, comparing every single Blonde ale that crosses my road with Leffe blonde or other Belgian blondes that I have drunk. I am convinced that I am the problem. Yet the problem

she wore a dress that reminded me of the mountains a type of mourning but not of a loved one that was laid to rest but of the beauty against which I could see her dancing moving body that drifted as the

For my fiancé’s 21st birthday, we planned a special hike deep in the mountains of Clarens, in the Free State, South Africa. It was a hike that she really wanted to do for while now, but it is only a guided

We went for an afternoon walk down by the ocean walkway – a big stretch of indigenous fynbos plants that the birds love to visit. We walked there every afternoon for a while and each day we saw a host

I stood in the bookshop, and I saw a small thin book on sale. I saw the name “Serequeberhan”, and my heart began beating faster because I know how expensive these books are. I did not immediately recognise

We stopped for something to eat. We did not realise that it would be the smallest pizza shop we have ever seen. As we climbed out of the car, we started to look for the restaurant, only to find a small

It has been a long week, but for the next couple of months, there will be a lot more stress… I will need to prepare for my PhD defence and then I need to teach philosophy classes as well. But for this

It has been almost exactly 1520 days since I registered as a PhD student without a research proposal. I never planned to do a PhD, as I made my family promise me that they would not allow me to do a PhD

it has been a year my dear and we have seen the world but we have also come to know the smallness of our room the thoughts plastered against the wall only to fall to the floor to be sweeped up the next

the eyes pierce my soul as I try to look away it feasts on my vulnerability as it flies away This is the last of the Birds of Prey series that I took. These birds really left an impression on me; I really

a city made from broken dreams and melancholy broken bodies decorate the hollow walls My fiance and I recently had the opportunity run the 54 floors of the Ponte City, in Johannesburg. For those that know,

Every now and then I treat myself with some freshly baked sourdough bread. There is nothing that comes close to this type of bread, in my opinion. When you bake the bread, the kitchen smells of pure sourdough

Short stories are some of the most fun to write but also read. In short stories, you can sketch absurd scenarios and describe the most odd situations imaginable, without thinking too much about the coherence

In a previous post, I discussed an Eagle that a local sanctuary took care of. This week, I want to show the friendliest little owl, from the same sanctuary. The same as with that post, these sanctuaries

In the last six or so months, I have marked about 500 examination papers or essays. (In philosophy, we mostly write essay examinations, and most of them in South Africa are take home examinations.) Besides

The week has ended in more marking for me. As a part time lecturer running from contract to contract, I cannot afford to say not to work. But this model is not sustainable - life has strange ways of making

There are always rare moments that you only capture in its fleeting nature. That is, you cannot relive the moment, and once it happens, it happens really quickly. When birds of prey land on our roof, or