As we head for warmer weather and the spring blossoms start spreading their colourful joy, it’s time to get out and visit The Witness Garden Show at the Royal Showgrounds, Pietermaritzburg. It may be mostly about gardens and gardening, but there is also so much more, and something for everyone. If you are a keen gardener, the feature gardens designed to perfection will inspire and delight; the plants on sale will certainly get you excited about gardening, and there are many specialist growers offering you the chance to grow something new. Get the best specials and all your gardening goodies,…
GLAD Ice Cube Bags are an absolute kitchen essential. The bags have individually perforated ice cube blocks so that it’s easy to tear off what you need without…
Print Recipe Tomato-chilli relish and mozzarella tortillas Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 40 mins Ingredients RELISH 1 onion, thinly sliced 200g Rosa tomatoes, halved 15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil 30ml (2 tbsp) balsamic vinegar 100g (½ cup) brown sugar 1 red chilli, seeded and chopped salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 125ml (½ cup)
TO DRINK: Delheim Rosé or Graham Beck Sparkling Rosé have the sweetness to partner salty cheese and chilli.
(Mozzarelline panate con rucola, Prosciutto di Parma e aceto balsamico) TO DRINK: Bellingham Maverick Sauvignon Blanc is full-bodied and herby with a hint of soft oak.
… celebrating August with wine, women and song. To celebrate Women’s Month in August, the Cradle Boutique Hotel – together with leading Johannesburg wine outlet Wine Menu – is hosting the Cradle of Food & Wine Festival, featuring a tasting event that will be represented by some of the country’s top women wine and gin makers. The one day event takes place on Saturday, August 19 from 11:00 to16:00. While those over 18 can taste wines from some of the more than 10 estates that will be pouring on the day, as well as sample some local gins, the younger…
Serve with a smooth and creamy topping, like we did using a delectable chicken liver pâté. Recipe by Togara Mabharani Styling by Togara Mabharani and Rudi Liebenberg Photograph by Bruce Tuck
What dreams are made of… Extracted from: Baking With Jackie Cameron, which has recently been named the best pastry book in the world in the Gourmand World Cookbook…
Zandvliet Wine Estate, on the outskirts of Ashton in the Robertson Valley, plays an illustrious role in the narrative of the South African wine industry. Proclaimed as a farm in 1838, Zandvliet counts among the very first farms to bottle Shiraz. One of its distinguishing characteristics is a small range of low limestone hills on the southern outskirts of the farm, bringing the special magic to its kalkveld (calcareous earth) terroir. Their flagship Kalkveld Shiraz has now inspired the development of the Kalkveld Lounge, an intricately designed tasting room which significantly augments the area’s tourism offering. Here you can also…
Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandlesizwe Dalibhunga Mandela, grandson of the beloved Madiba, shares with Anna Trapido the intense connection he has with his grandfather’s birthplace, Mvezo Komkhulu, as well as the…