Welcome back, Puyol! Devil’s Food Cake With Peppermint Marshmallow Topping

Notorious Puyol enthusiast -and food/travel writer- Ishay Govender from Food And The Fabulous brings us a mouthwatering cake to celebrate Puyol’s return… or whatever else you feel like celebrating these days, like Barça getting a clean sheet or going a whole day without a defender getting injured.

Before leaving you with Ishay’s words and photographs, let me remind you that licking the screen is no use (I tried!).

The occasion... …

Foodandthefab Presents… Game Night Nachos

… teams, but don’t let that deter you from reading this post by our most delicious collaborator, Ishay Govender of Foodandthefabulous. Not only will you learn a delicious recipe for match days, but you’ll get a first-hand report on Pep Guardiola ’s last time managing Barça players… in a futsal match.

Game Night Nachos – the healthy version

You may know that I have a little football problem. Well, it isn’t a problem so much as a slight preoccupation. And source of …

Captain’s Brew: A Cocktail for Carles Puyol

… drive us to drink. Luckily, our most delicious collaborator -and most knowledgeable Puyol expert- Ishay Govender of Foodandthefabulous, brings us today yet another Barça-inspired culinary masterpiece, this time of the alcoholic persuasion. Bottoms up!

It can’t have been easy for el Capi over the last eight months. Injury, surgery, recuperation, slow start and most recently, a break-up ! Blimey, we all hoped he’d have more sense than to date a model, but they seemed happy …

Catalan Torró (Nougat) Brownies: F. C. Barcelona Audi Cup Champs

… than a good memory and even better food to make us feel better?

Our wonderful collaborator, Ishay Govender -of the delicious Food and the Fabulous - brings us a delicious brownie recipe inspired by our win at the Audi Cup and her recent visit to Barcelona and the Camp Nou …

I don't know about you, but I feel better already...

Our Barça boys are back, and in fine form too. I’m blocking out the defeat by Man United the other day; we played with a young squad and …

Barça La Liga Champions 2011- The Game at Camp Nou

… necks for months, it’d definitely be to be at the Camp Nou for the fateful day… which is what Ishay Govender -of the delicious Food and the Fabulous -, collaborator extraordinaire, had the privilege of doing. And here we have her retelling of the day, including pictures, Puyol, peppers and other pretty things!

It was a mere formality with which F.C. Barcelona played Deportivo La Coruña on 15 May 2011, having earned sufficient points to win the Spanish La Liga title long …

A victory so sweet deserves a board of tapas…

… to eat while we watch Barça in the Champions League quarterfinals, our delicious contributor Ishay Govender, from Foodandthefabulous (who is also on Twitter ), is here with a tapas lesson as simple and brilliant as the football lesson Barça gave Arsenal at the Camp Nou…

This one dedicated to Barça...

Fancy making your own tapas ? I show you how to make a simple board with ingredients from your store cupboard and fridge. You can add a few items like my fig and …

A Sweet Celebration: El Clásico Humble Pie

As we come down from our El Clásico high, we have our delicious contributor Ishay Govender, from Foodandthefabulous , to give us something almost tastier that those five goals on Monday…

One of the highlights in the footballing calender and the premier game in the Spanish La Liga, the El Clásico clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid, has been analysed in research papers and bars alike, for months before the game, anticipation mounting, fan rivalry …

A King of the Zambezi Salute to Carles Puyol’s 500th

… victory obver Villarreal, we have a post by guest-blogger extraordinaire (and devoted Puyol fan) Ishay Govender, of the great foodandthefabulous.com.

On Saturday, 13 November 2010, Spain and FC Barcelona’s Captain Carles Puyol played his 500th official game for the club, at home against Villarreal FC. Anyone with half an eye on the football world would tell you that Puyol is renowned for his tenacity, dedication to training hard, even on holiday (one sees the ‘Pilates’ between …

Ode to Pulpo Paul

A guest blog post by food-addict and Blaugrana fan Ishay Govender.

You can follow her via Twitter or at her blogspace www.foodandthefabulous.com.

Paul January 2008 – 26 October 2010

Dearly beloved, today the world lays to rest our darling multi-armed Paul. One of possibly 57 700 eggs, laid by his mother at the Sea Life Centre, in Dorset, England, Paul hatched in roughly January 2008.

Clearly, he had no allegiance to the …

In Honour of a Cracking Blaugrana Victory!

… busy pushing keystrokes to form words and phrases (none more so eloquent than Ade’s piece ), Ishay Govender of decided to get her hands and kitchen dirty in commemorating Barcelona’s victory.

The following is a guest blog post by aficionado of all things fabulous, Ishay Govender. You can follow her interesting food affairs at her blogspace: www.foodandthefabulous.com

In a saner moment, this post would be confined to the cages of the Midnight Snacks page, but the …