Recipe and styling by Robyn Timson
Print Recipe Piquant autumn green salad Serves: 6 – 8 Cooking Time: 10 mins Ingredients 100ml sunflower oil 60ml (¼ cup) lime juice 10ml (2 tsp) wasabi paste salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 500g sugar snap peas 300g baby spinach 300g watercress 300g rocket 100g red spring onions, diagonally sliced Instructions 1
Print Recipe Melon salad Serves: 6 Ingredients 1 sweet melon 100g rocket leaves 150g mozzarella 12 slices pancetta (Parma ham will also work) drizzle of olive oil drizzle of balsamic vinegar Instructions 1 Cut the melon in half. Peel it and remove the seeds. 2 Spread the rocket leaves on a platter, then cut the
TO DRINK: A chilled dry rosé, such as Solms-Delta Lekkerwijn. CHEAT’S TIPS You can entertain on call with a whole range of bite-sized savoury nibbles. Stock up on…
Print Recipe Preheat the oven to 180°C. Heat the butter and oil in a large, deep frying pan and sauté the onion together with the turmeric for a few minutes. Add the carrot and pepperand cook until the vegetables are just soft, for about 15 minutes. Add the chicken and cook until brown all over,
Print Recipe Free-form chocolate chilli truffles Serves: 8 Cooking Time: 30 mins plus extra for setting Ingredients 500g 70 percent dark chocolate, chopped 60ml (¼ cup) fresh cream 1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped 50g butter cocoa powder, for dusting Instructions 1 Line a 20cm x 40cm tin with baking paper. 2 Place the
Unusually delicious; you can experiment with lots of different sweet toppings. TO DRINK: Morgenhof Cape Late Bottled Vintage 2001, a young ruby port COOK’S TIPS Experiment with alternative sweet toppings such as: • Gorgonzola, toasted pecan nuts and honey. • Strawberry halves, good quality melted dark chocolate and mint. • Poached pears, oranges, mascarpone and walnuts.
The crispiness of the noodles adds a lovely crunch to this dish. If you can get hold of fresh shiitake mushrooms they will enhance the dish even…
Print Recipe Couscous with roasted baby beetroot and sweet potato salad Serves: 4 Cooking Time: 20 mins Ingredients 800g baby beetroot, peeled 300g sweet potatoes, washed and chopped 90ml olive/avocado oil 20ml (4 tsp) butter salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 200g couscous, cooked 100g feta, crumbled 45ml (3 tbsp) fresh flat leaf