Looking for that perfect roast chicken recipe? Try this one with lemon and thyme from Marco Pierre White. Marco uses stock cubes to make his seasoning with a little olive oil and seasons the inside of the chicken’s cavity. This enables the flavour to permeate the bird from the inside and not just on the…
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How to Make a Frank Sinatra Burger
Frank Sinatra always knew how to get what he wanted during the golden age of sound and stage. I suggest that you find a friend called Deano with a bottle of bourbon if you want a Frank Sinatra Burger. If these names are way before your time, here’s an old clip of Frank & Dean holding up…
How to make the perfect poached egg as per Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal shares some pretty interesting information about eggs and poaching them, from his Channel 4 TV show “How to Cook Like Heston”. The fresher the egg the better the results, the white is firmer and as result won’t string out and will stay intact when you drop it into the water. To find out how…
Some of the best dressed salads in town, according to Hillary Biller
We couldn’t agree more with Hilary Biller of the Sunday Times, when it comes to salads “what you put inside is important, but what goes on top is vital.” She has some pretty cool salad dressing ideas on offer which we would certainly recommend you “dress” your salad in at some point this summer. She…
Wine & Tea Connoisseur James Norwood Pratt chats about Tea [video]
James Norwood Pratt is an American author and authority on wine, tea and tea lore. He wrote his first book “The Wine Bibber’s Bible” (1971). He is best known for his books on tea “The Tea Lover’s Treasury” (1982), “The Tea Lover’s Companion” (1995), and the whimsical “Reading Tea Leaves” (1996) authored as “by a…
Angelfish Recipe with Pesto, Asparagus and New Potatoes | Pete Goffe-Wood
MasterChef Judge Pete Goffe-Wood and his Angelfish Recipe with pesto, asparagus and new potatoes. When it comes to the braai we all to often get overrun by boerewors, chops and steak, a fish braai is often overlooked. My theory on this is that nobody really believes that a meal can cook so quickly and have…
Rearing your own animals for meat offers the best of both worlds
Autumn for me has good and bad moments. It is the season when I have the occasional disturbed night, as it is time to start filling the freezers. The older and fatter livestock in my garden and fields has to be despatched, and it fills me with dread. My animals bring my garden to life.…
Lamb Curry Recipe | Deena Naidoo
An awesome “Durban” Lamb Curry Recipe that you can easily turn into a bunny chow. Deena Naidoo prepared this Lamb and Tomato Curry Recipe recipe in episode eleven of MasterChef SA for the wine pairing challenge. It was a bit of a disaster for Deena as while his Lamb Curry got rave reviews from all the celebrity guests…
Fresh from the freezer: gourmet food in Greenland
Could Greenland, with its old reliance on whale and seal, become a gourmet destination? Its inventive new chefs think so, but will a frozen Tim Moore agree? Despite the best efforts of the Vikings, who chose its inviting name to hoodwink prospective settlers, no one expects Greenland to be lushly hospitable. Its bleak magnificence had…
Chefs get the knives out after blogger criticises crab starter
Another incident of a chef turning on a blogger has arisen except this time a few of his mates joined in on Twitter to abuse James Isherwood after he criticised Chef Bosi’s Hibiscus Restuarant in Mayfair, London. James wrote on his blog that he had visited the restaurant after enjoying Chef Bosi’s food at the…