• Try out this quick ginger beer cocktail. This cocktail has a fresh, zesty ginger kick with a warming brandy zing. Perfect for the ginger beer lovers out there! Quick Ginger Beer Cocktail INGREDIENTS Handful crushed ice 1 Granny Smith apple, cut into wedges Rind of 1 lemon, thinly sliced 500ml (2 cups) store-bought/home-made ginger beer 125ml (½ cup) brandy METHOD DIVIDE the crushed ice, apple wedges and lemon rind between 2 glasses. TOP up each glass with the store-bought/home-made ginger beer and brandy. ENJOY immediately. Cheers! Recipes and styling by Nomvuselelo Mncube Photographs by Dylan Swart The beautiful glass straws…

    Carefully crafted from property-grown grapes, the Ernie Els Wines’ Major Series collection begins with their Merlot. The 2018 vintage is rich, with luscious dark cherry and plum on the nose. It’s elegantly balanced by notes of pipe tobacco and fresh tilled earth which blends into the herbaceous notes of buchu and bay leaf. This medium to full-bodied wine displays great complexity and will continue to evolve for five to eight years in the bottle. It’s available from the Ernie Els Wines Online Shop as a single bottle and has recently been awarded 4 Stars in the Platter’s Guide in 2022.…

    Your best defense against colds and flu this winter could be your food. Keep infections at bay with  these nutritious and delicious flu-busting foods! Flu-busting Food to keep colds at bay! By Tanya Kovarsky  Recipe and styling by Anna Monali  Photograph by Mark Green It is said that prevention is better than cure and, considering there is still no cure for the common cold, perhaps our best line of defence is to build up our immunity so that we don’t succumb to infection. Good news is that one of the most effective ways to prevent colds and flu is by…

    You cannot go wrong with this quick, easy and oh-so-delicious sweet and sticky T-bone steak with blooming onions for dinner! For the Steak 1 cup soya sauce ⅓ cup Worcester sauce 3cm ginger, peeled and grated 2 garlic cloves, peeled and grated 110g brown sugar 4 x 250g T-bone steaks olive oil, to fry For the blooming onions 2 large onions, peeled 100g cake flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp paprika ½ tsp ground cumin ½ tsp cayenne pepper ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper small handful fresh thyme + extra sprigs, to garnish 1 large egg ½ cup full-cream…

    Warm rooibos and raspberry cocktail A delicious alternative to the raspberry and rum cocktail we all know and love. They this wonder full winter delight of Warm rooibos and raspberry cocktail Recipe and styling by Nomvuselelo Mncube Photograph by Dylan Swart SERVES 8-10 | TOTAL TIME 25 mins INGREDIENTS 500ml (2 cups) water 500g sugar 4 cinnamon sticks 2 cloves 3 cardamom pods, crushed 200g fresh/frozen raspberries 2L boiling water 4 Rooibos teabags 100ml rum METHOD PLACE the 500ml water and the sugar in a medium pot over medium-high heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Add the spices and raspberries, and…