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30 of the best food blogs

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Sure, some blogs offer unashamed food porn. Joy the Baker’s voluptuous cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread, Smitten Kitchen’s chocolate peanut butter cake and Bakerella’s red velvet cake balls have the power to derail even the most devoted dieter. But aside from causing us to lick our computer screens, blogs can be seriously useful. Stuck for a midweek dinner? Need to bake a cake for somebody with wheat intolerance? Have an urgent need to find out how to make saffron-vanilla snickerdoodles?

To keep you inspired and cool-headed in any food-related emergency, here is our pick of the best food blogs:

Best for…

Midweek meals

My Easy Cooking
Local blogger Nina Timm took home the award for best local blog in this year’s Eat In DStv Food Network Produce Awards for her user-friendly, practical guide to cooking for the family. Economical and easy, it’s packed full of quick ideas like these chocolate samosas and a few that require some patience, like this crusty bread.

Scrumptious
You may well know Cape Town-based blogger Jane-Anne Hobbs Rayner from her Scrumptious recipe books. Wholesome, homemade achievable food is what’s on the menu here, from peri-peri calamari to garlic and herb bread with peppered cheese.

Simply Delicious
Local blogger Alida Ryder is full of fabulous, practical midweek ideas like this summery spaghetti bolognaise. (And we commend her on her bravery in baking the legendary crack pie).

Brownie Girl
The name may signify sweet treats, but the grandmother of local food blogging, Colleen Grove, has plenty of midweek wonders to offer too. You may well have spotted her French toast with brie and boozy vanilla bean compote and her baby beetroot, blue cheese and walnut risotto before on our site.

Food and the Fabulous
Another who defies categorising, well-traveled writer, Ishay Govender offers recipes, and reviews of restaurants and markets and more on her aptly-titled blog. Easy to see why she won the best South African Food and Wine Blog 2011 at the South African Blog Awards.

Inspiration

Sardines on Toast
Oep ve Koep’s Kobus van der Merwe catalogues the natural produce of the West Coast in this beautifully photographed, thoughtful blog.

Sweet Paul
The blog accompanying the gorgeous digimag is full of inspiring advice and beautiful pictures, recipes to craft ideas.

Lottie + Doof
This Chicago-based blogger does make his fair share of doughnut muffins as well as beautiful soups, salads and practical main courses.

What Katie Ate
Pure visual indulgence is what Aussie blogger Katie Quinn Davies serves up on her blog. Beef short ribs with creamy potato mash or individual lamb and Guinnes pies, anyone?

Drizzle and Dip
Local food stylist and after-hours blogger Sam Linsell turns out beautiful photographed recipes and reviews, from sweet treats like clementine upside-down cakes to sumptuous savouries like mac and cheese with buffalo sausage, roast tomatoes and pickled peppers.

Confessions of a Hungry Woman
We weren’t sure whether to put the lovely Sam Woulidge under inspiration or humour, because Sam’s diverse scrawlings on a wide variety of foodie topics make us laugh and dream at the same time. A great blog for lovers of good writing.

Baking

Bakerella
US blogger Angie Dudley is largely to blame for the current cake pop trend. She’s also the inventor of something called cupcake pops. Insane, we know.

Joy the Baker
Joy Wilson’s baking blog is one of the biggest around – with very good reason. Here are three: cream cheese cinnamon rolls, salted caramel cheesecake pie and chocolate hazelnut pudding.

Sprinkle Bakes
Heather Baird admits to loving cakes. We’ve no idea what spiced cookie dough stuffed pumpkin whoopee pies are, but now we’re going to have to make them.

Special dietary requirements

Tartelette
Photographer Helene Dujardin began making gluten-free dishes to manage her Menieres Disease. The results are beautiful, inspiring and droolworthy.

Roost
Blogger Caitlyn began cooking without grains or sugar to help combat her husband’s Crohn’s disease. Gorgeous moody photography makes dishes like almond and cherry upside-down cake utterly irresistible.

Cannelle Vanille
In this feast of colour, Aran Goyoaga serves up delicious gluten-free sweets and savouries.

Pure Vegetarian
Lakshmi Wennäkoski-Bielicki is a bhakti-yogi living in Helsinki. Her blog is a full of innovative vegetarian fare, from strawberry rhubarb pie to beetroot dumplings.

Smitten Kitchen also has a gluten-free section, as does Joy the Baker.

Healthy meals

The Clothes Make the Girl
Even we feel the need for a healthy (and tasty) meal once in a while.

Fat Free Vegan
Head here for fat-free vegan recipes that are much more delicious than they sound!

Betty Bake
The blog of local blogger Bernice Griffiths started as a record of recipes free of corn and gluten but has expanded to cover her original cooking and baking recipes of all kinds, restaurant reviews and food events – all with a focus on healthy living.

How Sweet It Is
Sure, there are some wicked things on this blog (okay, a lot of wicked things), but if you keep your eyes front, you’ll find your way to dishes like these crispy quinoa sliders, fudgy avocado brownies and corn salsa.

Ethical eating

Food with a Story
From pomegranates to pancakes the lovely people at Food with a story champion ‘interesting, ethical and artisan food’.

Live to Eat
With loads of gardening tips, foodie news and championing of local suppliers, Bernadette Le Roux’s blog is a great place for cooking with a conscience.

Travel and food

Gastroenophile
As food critic for the Wall Street Journal, and one of the judges of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Bruce Palling has had occasion to eat at the top restaurants around the world as well as attend some mindblowing culinary events, such as Cook it Raw. (As if that’s not enough to make you jealous, he’s just visited SA as one of our judges for the Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards.)

New World Review
Nicholas Gill’s attempt to preserve the culinary heritage of Latin America makes for fascinating reading, from smoking hollowed-out pumpkins in Mexico to ceviche with coconut milk vinaigrette.

Paris by Mouth
More collaborative website than blog, this is a great place to see what’s hot in the city before you visit.

Trail of Crumbs
Visiting everywhere from the Loire Valley to Belize, Adrian and Danielle Rubi-Dentzel have an enviable list of trips under their belts. Great stuff for writing your bucket list.

Eat Like a Girl
‘A food and travel blog (with lots of stuff on London too)’ is how Niamh Shields styles her exploration of recipes, food and culture. The photography might not be as gorgeous as some, but Niamh took home last year’s Observer Food Monthly Blogger award for her old, unfussy recipes for dishes like smoked mayonnaise and duck ragu.

Humour

My Drunk Kitchen
Taking Keith Floyd’s culinary drinking to the next level, Hannah Hart decided to make a cooking show whilst drunk. “My Drunk Kitchen has received much critical acclaim from aspiring alcoholics everywhere,” reads the bio for the site. “For this she is very proud.”

Fancy Fast Food
The premise behind this site is to make beautiful dishes using ingredients from fast food chains. Probably the only place on the web you’ll find the term ‘Coke reduction’ used with any frequency…

Cake Wrecks
With badly punctuated birthday cakes, hideous wedding cakes and downright disturbing confectionary, this blog is good as a pick-me-up after (or during) a particularly dull board meeting.

By Katharine Jacobs

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17 Comments

Candice
August 29, 2014

A great fan of some of these blogs! though my cooking skills leave much to be desired, its still nice to try and the inspiration definitely helps with improving my skills. Found an interesting article on what it means to eat healthy, thought I would pass this one and see what food bloggers think as I think its a lovely discussion topic. http://www.hippo.co.za/blog/money/Do-you-need-to-be-wealthy-to-get-healthy-/

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Rudolf
October 22, 2014

Here is a brand new food blog from Stellenbosch. Have a look and enjoy:
http://foodandeverythingafter.wordpress.com/

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Adam
March 19, 2015

Here is the new food tour blog look at and enjoy..

https://secretfoodtours.wordpress.com/

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rahul
March 23, 2015

hey mate, you posted a nice blog but it would be better for ya if overview my blogs on top and famous new rooftop restaurants in jaipur.

Zama
April 1, 2015

Try this blog

Mrsninthekitchen.tumblr.com

Really great!

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Shay
July 10, 2015

hey! 🙂 http://www.livingchirpy.com is where you’ll find fresh, simple and satisfying recipes anyone can do! mostly low carb and unprocessed.

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Shella
July 13, 2015

Check out Life and Spice http://www.life-and-spice.com for tongue tickling Indian and worldly cuisines. A review writer and passionate traveler.
Enjoy some great Indian food

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Raeesah Joosub
July 31, 2015

Hi all, hope your doing well. I recently started a blog showcasing food/nutrition/housekeeping/beauty… please pay a visit http://www.doughrayme.co.za

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Malandri
August 5, 2015

Hi guys,

Ive just begun following food blogs and have found resources like this very help in my cooking endeavours thus far 😉

If you REALLY would like some great recipes to follow, and try out, have a look at the Hulett’s website.
http://hulettssugar.co.za/step_into_our_kitchen

All the very best! 🙂

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Achike
June 28, 2016

Hello Everyone,
I love to cook and eat African food and I tried a lot to cook Sharwamas (African Gyros) but unable to cook not as delicious as Ike’s Cafe and Grill. They cook it so delicious.

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max
August 23, 2016

For South African’s missing home country food and biltong, take a look at the easy recipes of the favorites at http://www.biltongblog.com
I also tried making my own biltong box and making my biltong and dry wors at home. The biltong is tasty and easy to make, dry wors a little trickier!

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Denisiya
October 28, 2016

Here’s another great south African food recipe website http://eatmee.co.za/

Thanks

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South Africa Travel Agency
October 3, 2017

You get a number of tasty food items cooked in a unique way in South Africa. A unique variety of food can be found in South Africa. The country offers a wide range of dishes cooked in a unique manner by the expert chefs of the country.

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Denisiya
November 24, 2017

Hello guys, for more amazing South African Recipes as well as a few others from around the globe, please visit http://eatmeerecipes.co.za

This is my official site and everything is in step by step methods with images. Cooking has never been this easy!

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Ryan
January 19, 2018

Don’t forget http://www.getinmybelly.co.za

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Mabini Mpuhlu
July 23, 2018

Good Morning
I am Mabini from Conversations Squared, we hope to promote the traditional and fresh Amasi from Fair Cape Dairies through the Mandela, Amasi upbringing story which had started with him being a cattle herd in the dusty streets of Mvezo and all the way back to his retirement.

Please kindly let me know how your publication/blog can feature, thank you

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