As some of you already know, the V & A Waterfront in Cape Town has started a market filled with glorious food. I have check this market out before and found a selection of my favourite local traders there, including The Creamery (Peanut Butter ice cream – yes please), Taste of Taiwan (food that reminds me of home), By Nature dried fruit and nuts, Stokkiesdraai Biltong, Classic Marmalades and Jams, O’ways [...]
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Checkers, a local shopping centre we’ve all grown to love, is doing a campaign on their premium meat ranges. Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay is appearing the in this NEW Checkers’ campaign, think about it one of the world’s toughest food critics endorsing your products – wow. Checkers has given Butterfingers a signed copy of Gordon Ramsay’s cookbook, The Ultimate Cookery Course as a give away. This competition is only available on Twitter [...]
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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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On Saturday, a new market had started in Woodstock, Cape Town. The Palms Market is a bimonthly market bringing us the freshest of foods from the Platteland. I received an email from Social Plus One, inviting me to the market’s opening, and of course, I’m always keen to check out a local market. Even though The Palms Market just started, there’s a certain appeal – especially with an covered parking area, [...]
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In Taiwan, we went to a restaurant in Taichung well-known for their exquisite menu. Click on the link to see the review. – (review to follow). One of the dishes that tickled my interest was such a simple, yet lovely appetiser – cold and lightly pickled cherry tomatoes. After tasting these, I made it a mission to figure out how to make those bad boys. Taste alone, it’s obvious that they [...]
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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Chinese New Year works according to the Lunar Calendar, unlike the New Year here in South Africa, which uses the Gregorian Calendar. This year, Chinese New Year falls on the 23rd of January. I have rather vivid and fond memories of every Chinese New Year I celebrated with my family growing up in the Free State. The whole family would gather and we’d either eat [...]
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For Chinese New Years, my sister and I cooked up a spread for our friends. The highlight dish is the recipe I’ll be sharing with you today – Pekin Duck. The duck I bought for our dish is a freerange Pekin duck from the Neighbougood’s butcher at The Old Biscuit Mill. The duck was 2,3kg and fresh as a daisy. Roasting the duck takes quite a bit of time, but [...]
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Every Thursday is my day in the kitchens at Oded’s Kitchen HQ at the Old Biscuit Mill, but this Thursday was a special one. I finished up early and headed over to Rondebosch for an exciting evening of food. The Le Creuset team invited 15 food bloggers to attend a class at Silwood School of Cookery. Yes, the Le Creuset. How often have I dreamed of owning the entire collection [...]
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Having followed the Twitter foodies in Cape Town for quite a while now, I came across an event the lady behind Add to Taste was organising. This red velvet cupcake course was to support Nosh4Noah. This is the first I met the Cape Town food bloggers that I’ve been openly stalking for the past few months. Worrying that they might take me for a nut job, I was quite relieved to meet Julesdurrant, [...]
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