Another Foschini Group feature with Balanced Life May 2012. In this feature, I chose 4 recipes from my blog. Styled by myself and the magazine’s art director: Lesley Mallon Photographer: Greg Cox Pickled cherry Tomatoes with Chinese cured Plums Chicken fried Rice with ginger and sesame oil Chinese Egg Pancake Roll 蛋餅 Taiwanese Cucumber Salad Read the digimag here. Tweet
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I was approached by the group editor (who’s also a dear friend of mine – Claire Barnardo) of The Foschini Group magazines to be featured in the March 2012 edition of “Balanced Life” a few months ago. This subscription magazine, focuses on women. The article I was featured in, included one of my friends and food blogger Ishay Govender of Food and the Fabulous, and was written by Kirsty Wilkins, TFG’s [...]
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Finding a “the best of” restaurant is not exactly the easiest task, especially if it’s a more “generic” menu item like steak, ribs, schnitzels etc – everyone has their own opinion and most restaurants offer those meals. Now, Margaritas is a steak and seafood house where I’ve been eating, with my family, for almost 10 years now. Margarita’s was my very first experience of western fine dining and has been [...]
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This picture was borrowed from The Cheese Festival on FB Hi everyone! I was given two double tickets to giveaway to two lucky followers, provided by the PR team at Go4word. Each ticket is worth R110, so you can really spoil your plus one to this special event. The SA Cheese Festival is a gastronomic experience and offers a wide variety or cheese traders and wine traders, along with other [...]
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For the past few days, waking up has been more difficult than usual with winter creeping up on us, and I think back about my most fond food memories. My ultimate favourite winter dish is my papa’s Sauteed sliced Lamb and Chinese Spinach in Chinese BBQ Sauce with rice dish. When my papa used to make it, this belly-warming BBQ lamb and Chinese spinach swallows the whole house in its heavenly fragrant [...]
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The papaya, also known as paw paw, is one of my favourite fruits because of the incredible flavour and soft texture, melting instantly in your mouth. This Asian beverage is refreshing and healthy, containing vitamins A, C and E. In most Asian countries, the papaya milkshake is quite a popular beverage amongst the locals and is well received by tourists. I made this recently with my papa at home, and I have [...]
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Growing up, soy-based products were never strangers in my home, but it took me a good few years before I could truly appreciate and enjoy the flavour of soy milk. Ironically, I was given soy milk for babies when I was a young warthog. And by warthog, I mean infant. In Mandarin, we say “doujiang” – ‘dou’ meaning bean and ‘jiang’ meaning liquid/beverage/drink. The reason why the word “nai 奶” [...]
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Before going to Taiwan, my cousin, Christine, advised us to take a trip to a certain cafe. It’s become one of my favourite cafes and is called 85 °C Cafe and Bakery. This coffee shop specialises in desserts and afternoon tea. Their menu has quite a variety including: full cakes cake slices cheesecake rolls pastries decent coffee flavoured teas (hot and cold) lattes mocha slush smoothies and one of my favourite Taiwanese beverages [...]
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Michael Olivier, a chef and well-known personality in the food industry in South Africa has a food show on SABC 3′s morning show “The Expresso Show”. Michael invited me to join him and presenter, Katlego,onto the show last week Thursday (15 March 2012) in Sea Point to cook up a 10 minute dish. My butterflies evolved into vultures and flapped about inside my stomach. Thankfully, my friend Kyle came with for [...]
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I don’t actually celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but I thought these cupcakes fit in perfectly with the theme. One of my favourite new baking ingredients is green tea powder.The very first time I had a green tea flavoured anything was green tea ice cream in Australia. The flavour was sweet with a light bitterness, and deliciously creamy. In South Africa, you can find green tea ice cream at various Japanese restaurants [...]
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