Slow Roasted Greek Style Lamb (Vampire’s Kill) This recipe is featured on Cape Town Magazine blog.   what lurketh behind the Vampire’s Kill….scroll down to find out! Our new house (well, it’s going on a year now, with the unrenovated bits going on 60 odd years old), hosted it’s first Govender-Ypma Halloween party on Sunday [...]

Individual Chicken Pot Pies Serves 6 Last Thursday I dragged myself into the kitchen after a long and especially taxing day and stared at the puff pastry I left out in the stay-cool section of the fridge. And then I stared at the chicken breasts that I purchased earlier that day. Chicken and mushroom pie, [...]

A Salad for a Beloved Octopus This post is featured on Spain World Cup Blog, and you can read it here: http://spain.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/ode-to-pulpo-paul-a-culinary-homage.html and The OffSide’s Daily Dose: http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-october-27th-2010.html Ode to Pulpo Paul Dearly beloved, today the world lays to rest our darling multi-armed Paul. One of possibly 57 700 eggs, laid by his mother at [...]

Review of Gaatjie: West Coast gem During a recent long weekend break in Paternoster, we dined at Suzi Holtzhausen’s fisherman cottage- style, Gaaitjie Salt Water restaurant, located ideally on the beach and famed for its creative and seasonal gastronomic offerings that rival the best in Cape Town and the wine lands. If you’ve been to [...]

Smokey Chilli Ostrich Goulash Serves 4 After pan-frying a small portion of the ostrich fillet I used for the crackers in the last post, I decided that a slow-cooked tomato based stew was just the thing for the rest. The fillet being quite tender, would also mean a much shorter cooking time. So in fact, [...]

I’m both proud and pleasantly surprised that those witty, always ready with an insightful jibe guys at theoffside picked up this blog post and I may, in future be doing more Barca football / food posts for them. You can view the cracker post on their site (http://barcelona.theoffside.com/) here: http://barcelona.theoffside.com/barcelona/in-honour-of-a-cracking-blaugrana-victory.html#more-3750 Visca el Barca! In a [...]

A stir fry and a Broth The beauty of this dish is two-fold: Each of the spices and condiments added can be adjusted, for example the chilli, ginger and soy sauce, to alter the flavour focus, and this can be transformed from a stir-fry, into a broth, with the addition of just water, a little [...]

Tofu with Chilli Tamarind Dipping sauce Serves 2 photo property of foodandthefabulous.com Tofu Tofu is a versatile source of vegetarian protein. It’s a fantastic wobbly but firm, ghostly white “cheese” (it’ a bean curd) made from coagulated soya milk and nothing new to us here in South Africa. But what tofu has in character, it [...]

Cheese and Chive Egg Pots (a.k.a the Souffle that wasn’t)  The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you are afraid of it.” – James Beard I have been dreading sharing this post. And stalled with it for a few days. We’ve established that I am no chef, no butcher- [...]

In this semi-freddo I’ve added the pulp of six passion fruit and 60 g chopped dried figs, hydrated in a few teaspoons of freshly boiled water, and a fat pinch of saffron, boiled in 1 tablespoon of milk.