The lovely thing about Eccles cakes is that you can eat them whenever you like. They’re delicious for breakfast or with a bit of cheese and some beer for lunch, but my favourite way to eat them is with a lovely cup of tea in the afternoon.
We’re loving season 2 of Clover’s Little Big Cook Off – the teams are just amazing to watch, we can’t believe how talented those kids are. But we…
Print Recipe Caramelised tomatoes, haloumi and wild rocket Serves: 4 – 6 Cooking Time: 30 mins Ingredients 4 tomatoes, halved 30ml (2 tbsp) olive/avocado oil 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 haloumi block, cubed juice of ½ a lemon 100g wild rocket, to serve Instructions 1 Preheat
Print Recipe Pickled carrots Serves: 5 as a garnish Cooking Time: 2 hours 30 minutes (or up to 1 week) + extra, to cool Ingredients 1 large carrot 110ml water 110ml rice wine vinegar 65g sugar Instructions 1 Peel the carrot, slice as thinly as possible lengthways using a mandoline and julienne the carrot. 2
TWO ACRES TEA ROOM Kathleen Hornby Walsh’s tips on planting your own herb garden (from the article ‘Country Strong’ (August 2014) Caring for and maintaining your herbs: •…
A BREAK-IN DURING LOAD SHEDDING? YOU MAY NOT BE INSURED! Load shedding in winter is inconvenient enough, but something that might not have occurred to you is the repercussions of a break-in in the event of extensive power cuts. Even scarier to conceive, would your insurance pay out? Aon, the leading provider of insurance broking, risk management and human resource solutions encourage you to interrogate the implications of the terms and conditions of your cover. In an extended outage, the battery back-up on security equipment such as electric fences, alarm systems, security cameras and outdoor motion passives may well run…
How can you go wrong with the flaky, golden lightness of traditional battered fish and chips? You can’t. Recipe by Christiaan Campbell of Delaire Graff Estate in Stellenbosch
Andrea and Tamara chat about the world of food and the growing tapas trend that we’re seeing on a global scale, as Andrea says, "Small plates are a…
Print Recipe Sherry peas with quail eggs and ham Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 20 Ingredients Sauce 30ml (2 tbsp) olive or avocado oil 4 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced 1 red onion, chopped 8 slices ibérico or serrano ham 60ml (¼ cup) full-cream sherry 60ml (¼ cup) vegetable stock 500g frozen peas Maldon sea
Print Recipe Kudu and Chantarel mushrooms Serves: 9 hrs 30 mins Cooking Time: Makes 1,5L Ingredients 1,5kg meaty beef stock bones (with lots of marrow, including knuckle bones if possible) 50ml water 45ml (3 tbsp) vegetable oil 500g onions, unpeeled and roughly chopped 250g carrots, roughly chopped 250g celery, roughly chopped 3 garlic cloves, bruised