Archive for the ‘Bread & Pastry’ Category

As Seen On, Bread & Pastry, Dessert & Baked Goods, Featured Articles, Recipes

Chocolate and Orange Bread – an XXX Grown up indulgence.

As Seen On, Bread & Pastry, Chicken & Poultry, Food & Fab Endorsed, Food & Travel, Mediterranean Delicacies

Chicken pastilla (b’stilla) – the uniquely Moroccan savoury and sweet pastry. My experience in the markets and cooking at a class in Fes, Morocco.

Bread & Pastry, Food & Fab Endorsed, Food & Travel, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Soups & Stews, Starters, Vegetarian

Today, I want to share an ajoblanco or white gazpacho soup, popular around Spain in summer and perfect for our fiery South African festive season. While ajo means garlic in Spanish, what makes this soup distintive are the almonds used.

Bread & Pastry, Food & Fab Endorsed, Food & Travel, Mains, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes

Caramelised Onion & Beef Phyllo Pastry Tart with Green Olives – a holiday series colaboration with Mediterranean Delicacies – part one, a visit to Chefchaouen, Morocco.

beer, bread, Bread & Pastry, Food & Travel, Recipes

A walk around Mouraria, the birthplace of Fado music and a very special project to honour the oldest residents of the district. A slideshow of the visit set to a fado number sung by Cuca Roseta. And to enjoy with this? A thick slice of cheddar and parsley beer bread with salted butter.

Bread & Pastry, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

This challenge paired Medi Deli’s Sun Dried Tomato pesto with their Basil Pesto Mayo – I combined the sun dried tomato pesto into a savoury scone (you can add some Parmesan cheese on the top if you prefer) and served with the basil pesto mayo instead of butter. A really lovely combination and look at the colours!

As Seen On, Bacon, Bread & Pastry, Dessert & Baked Goods, Pasta, Noodles & Rice, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

When Woolworths gave me the challenge of preparing a meal for four for R150, a “budget” meal, I knew three things should into play so that the eater (and the cook) would not feel deprived in any way: flavour, easily available ingredients and there had to be dessert!

Bread & Pastry, Brunch, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies

I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Mediterranean Delicacies. For this recipe, their chicken liver pate peri-peri combined with their tzatziki. I must admit, I read the brief a few times to see if I’d made a mistake. I was stumped at first. I knew I didn’t want to mix the two ingredients directly. Then the idea emerged: make the pate into a warm pastry wheel sprinkled with cayenne pepper and offset it with a cool, creamy dollop of tzatziki. The result: fun to serve and eat finger-food!

Bread & Pastry, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes

I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Medi Deli. In this case, their anchovies with their biltong dip. I combined the salty anchovies with onion to make a deeply savoury beer bread and served thick slices of it with the creamy biltong dip. It’s really fitting I think, to post these recipes right now, as Medi Deli foods have a predominately Greek origin and I am currently in Greece, enjoying not only the warm Greek hospitality but the range of foods and flavors too.

As Seen On, Bread & Pastry, Starters, The Fabulous, Vegetarian

I was asked to be a part of the Afrikaans lifestyle programme Pasella and to showcase a cheese not often used. I chose Ricotta cheese and made these very simple ricotta cheese and double mushroom tartlets- using fresh and dried mushrooms, rehydrated for double the flavour in a crispy phyllo outer. I drizzled them lightly in a lovely white balsamic truffle glaze I brought back from Andorra last week.