Galette is pretty much the simplest French tart you can make. It’s just a flat sheet of pastry with a filling tumbled in the middle and the edges folded over. It can be sweet, filled with anything from apples or blackberries to figs or plums. Or it can be savoury, like this onion and tapenade galette. The inspiration for this [...]
Fillet steak au poivre – it’s just fancy French for meat that’s covered in pepper, but it sounds so impressive! Like so many classical recipes it’s incredibly simple, but it knocks it out of the park flavour wise. The secret when you’re using so few ingredients is using only the best. Best quality, plump pieces of well aged fillet; [...]
Ask me about my top 5 best-ever meals and invariably a simple lunch I enjoyed on a very remote Greek island comes to mind. We’d anchored our yacht in a teeny harbour and strolled a few metres to a restaurant boasting a mere three tables. As we sipped ice cold Greek white wine we watched a small boy catching fish [...]
I’ve been contemplating all things pork this past week or two, ever since the fantastic five-course meal I enjoyed in the Hamm & Uys restaurant on the beautiful Blaauwklippen wine estate. The occasion? SA Pork’s year-end function for food media and people in the food industry. It was a day designed to highlight the wonderful versatility of pork and what [...]
I love absolutely everything about Christmas. The fairy lights; the fragrant pine wreaths; the masses of blue hydrangeas and white Icebergs I pick from my high summer garden; the white candles; the polished silver; the glittering crystal… And then there’s the taste and smell of Christmas – cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and allspice – they don’t just belong in Christmas [...]
Saturday, 9 October, is official Pinotage Day. I don’t exactly need an excuse to open a bottle of this truly South African cultivar, but I got one when the folks from FAT Bastard Wines sent me this recipe for a chocolate truffle tart. They recon it’s the ideal decadent treat to pair with their Pinotage. Showcasing ripe plums and rich [...]