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Food Writing
If writing is my first love, then anything and everything to do with discovering, eating, cooking or sharing food in all its many wonderful guises, is my second. I’ve had the pleasure of crafting food oriented content for Yuppiechef, Faithful to Nature, Food24 and EatOut24. I’m no food stylist but when it comes to German baking and health-oriented dishes or meals with a personal story, I enjoy creating the recipes and photographing them as part of my story telling.
Peanut butter and tomato on toast – don’t knock it till you try it
PEANUT BUTTER & TOMATO on TOASTDon't knock it 'till you try it.The best things in life are free Okay, maybe the ingredients aren't. But the magic of family traditions most certainly are. This particular tradition came about through my grandfather's love of...
EatOut Print Magazine | Exploring ‘ the gatherer’ with a focus on FYN
A few excerpts from an article on FYN fine dining restaurant commissioned by EatOut24 for their quarterly print magazine. The article required an interview with Peter Templehoff to get a better understanding of his approach to foraging in fine dining. The...
What the heck is switchel and why you should get fresh with it this summer
I’m not telling you about this because it’s trendy. It’s not even a new trend. No, as far as following the flock goes, I tend to run in the other direction of what’s currently considered ‘cool’. I refuse to eat anything ‘unicorn’ – that is something which has been...
Lentil patties and soy schnitzels: Are vegetarians stealing the carnivore’s dictionary?
They were browning beautifully, and by all definition, qualified as successfully cooked fireside food – somewhat charred, perfectly buttery. My aubergine steaks were ready. That’s right, I said steaks. Fellow braaiers, well into their 4th beer, dove with candour into...
Potato, potahto? Why they’re the real unsung heroes of the food world
After a recent encounter over a bowl of exceptional, sage butter-drizzled patatas bravas, where I seemed alone in my blubbering affection for the potato, it became clear to me that the wart-riddled spud was in danger of becoming an unsung hero. Perhaps it’s the part...
Easy, gluten-free Gingerbread biscuits
The festive season can be a bit rough on even the healthiest person’s diet. So, while I might forego as much sugar as possible during the year, there’s no way I’ll turn down cinnamon roasted almonds over Christmas. That being said, when there is a way to up the health...
The Impossible Burger: Is real tasting fake meat the eco solution to the battle with beef?
In a shiny stainless steel test kitchen nestled in Silicon Valley, a food scientist is preparing a hopefully sensational meatless burger. As the spatula glides in beneath the hot surface of the pink, fleshy patty fat sizzles around its seared edges. Once flipped, the...
6 reasons why craft beer is the healthier choice
Craft beer is like the sun. No, we haven’t elevated it to deity status and now worship it like Ra (although we’re sure there were pagan Germanic tribes that used to). No, we mean that like the sun, craft beer, in measured doses, can be the healthy vitamin your body...
Eat with your eyes and make a colour salad
Colour salads is a phrase that tends to tumble from the lips of many a visitor to Babylonstoren‘s Babel restaurant. It’s one of their simplest and loveliest odes to the gardens they grow. By focusing on colour first, they’ve taught us how to listen to the seasons and...
Why Beer is Better
I was approached to write the argument for why beer is better for the Superbalist Beer vs Wine debate in The Way of Us while heading up the League of Beers crafty content. They wanted a woman's opinion who actually drank beer. This is what they got. “If she prefers...
How to make a gingerbread house
Feeling advent-urous this Christmas? Why not dive into a long-standing European tradition and build your very own gingerbread house. You can make your house as intricate as the boundaries of your creativity allow but here’s a simple one to start off with. Here’s how...
Karen from Babylonstoren shares her beetroot bread
There are some places you visit, some foods that you have the pleasure of tasting, that never leave your memories. On our visit to Babylonstoren last year, we had the privilege of being invited into Karen Pretorius, head baker’s kitchen. Amid learning about the gentle...
Here’s how to make the ideal chai tea
Have you ever had the experience of tasting a dish or drink, that you’ve had many times before, in a completely foreign location and suddenly you’re seeing it in a whole new light? I had that with the most wonderful cup of chai tea not too long ago, on a trip to the...
Fragrant nasi goreng with chicken and broccoli
Nasi goreng, or fried rice, is the meal I grew up eating. Mom made Indonesian meals for dinner often and Sunday Lunch with grandpa always involved a massive spread of nasi with all its side salads, sambals and krupuk (prawn chips). Here’s a fragrant version made with...
The ultimate green juice health tonic
Unless you’re already a happy juicer, a green juice is not the sort of beverage you crave. More like the kind you scrunch your face up over. No, you crave liquids with caffeine, sugar, bubbles and fizz. But what if I told you that it was because your body has never...
A strawberry juice fit for summer sipping
Juicing (and by extension juicers) are heroes at upping your fruit and veg intake but risk becoming the sensible aunt of kitchen tools and techniques. Yes, juicing is great for getting in those greens you normally wrinkle your nose at, but it can also breathe new life...
A power grapefruit, radish and beetroot juice that stops for nothing
Juices are, to me, a little bit like colour therapy. Some mornings I need the calming energy of a green juice, other days I crave the passion and power of this red beety beauty. Ingredients Makes: enough for 4 servings 1 large beetroot 2 grapefruits 3 red skinned...
Everything you could know about cooking with chickpea flour
Have you ever tried a new recipe or ingredient and then found it lying forgotten in your cupboard a month or two later? With the best of intentions you buy for a recipe and then want to keep looking for ideas, but life gets in the way of your inspiration and it never...
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