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As Seen On, Featured Articles

I wrote this piece for Mango Airlines Juice Inflight mag. Some of the local food stars I interviewed are featured in it too.

Chicken & Poultry, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mains, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes

A ballotine is traditionally a deboned leg of chicken or duck, stuffed, tied and rolled and steamed, poached or baked. Nowadays chicken breast and various cuts of red meat are also used to make a ballotine – really a fancy way of saying a stuffed and rolled piece of meat. I stuffed chicken breasts with Mediterranean Delicacies basil pesto and topped with their Olive Tapenade and bread crumbs.

Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Midnight Snacks, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

These are a healthy version of nachos that I make at home, often to snack on while watching the football. I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Mediterranean Delicacies. In this instance their avocado hummus with their caramelised onion dip. I chose to use both as dips that I lavished over the hot-out-the-oven nachos.

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, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Ice Cream Sorbet & Frozen Desserts, Recipes, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

An easy but indulgent semifreddo. I love this semifreddo because of the unexpected, refreshing scent of lemon and and the freshness of the zest. It goes surprisingly well with rasberries and is creamy and satisfying.

As Seen On, Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Recipes, Vegetarian, Woolworths & MasterChef SA 2012

My Sri Lankan style Aubergine Curry is based on a favourite recipe from Rick Stein’s Sri Lankan Crab Curry found in his beautiful Far Eastern Odyssey (Uncle Rick is one of my favourite celebrity chefs- he really understands food, its origins and people). I have made versions of the crab curry with great success and thought the aubergines would stand up to and display these flavours wonderfully. Featured by Woolworths for the MasterChef SA series.

Featured Articles, Food & Fab Endorsed, Mediterranean Delicacies, Recipes, Salad & Snacks

I was given the challenge of preparing dishes with combinations chosen by Medi Deli – in this case their little pack of marinated octopus salad with their tahini paste. I decided to keep the octopus in a salad and combine it with salad leaves, grilled aubergine, mint and tahini (the last three ingredients are such willing partners as it is). Food and the Fabulous endorsed project and news of travel to Monaco today.

As Seen On, Featured Articles, Recipes, Soups & Stews, The Fabulous

I was invited to present a dish on the Expresso Breakfast show to celebrate the Thai New Year. I am no expert – the cuisine does not form part of my cultural heritage. But, I have been cooking and eating Thai food since my late teens. I decided to prepare a Tom Yum soup, ideal for this drastic change of weather in Cape Town. That lovely balance between sour and hot. Nourishing but not fattening. Flu-blitzing but moreish. Tom Yum soup, that Thai classic -you can control the heat and the zing as you choose. I often use a sachet of Tom Yum paste but enhance the flavour with fresh limes, chilli, lemon grass, dried lime leaves and a little palm sugar.

Dessert & Baked Goods, Featured Articles, Recipes, The Fabulous

I also made this dessert, adapted from my Christmassy Pimms & Star Anise Stewed Plums and Cherries with Amaretti Biscuits. This recipe uses dried pears and prunes and ginger biscuits- a more Easter twist on things, I thought. Also, really very easy. A little sticky and messy, but a delight to eat.
You can listen to the show this morning with Nina Timm, featuring this recipe at 9 am on RSG on 100-104 FM or online by clicking here.