Cook’s tip: If avocados are not in season you can buy ready-made guacamole.
Print Recipe Pickled green beans and broccoli Serves: 4 – 6 Cooking Time: 15 mins Ingredients 300g green beans, trimmed 200g tender-stem broccoli, trimmed 15ml (1 tbsp) olive oil 1 shallot, finely chopped 15ml (1 tbsp) yellow mustard seeds 45ml (3 tbsp) red wine vinegar 30ml (2 tbsp) castor sugar Instructions 1 Blanch the green
Red grapes contain polyphenols (most concentrated in the skins and seeds) which help to protect against heart disease. So sure, white chocolate mousse with red grapes is a decadently delicious dessert, but you can’t deny that there are some health benefits. Go ahead and indulge!
Rich in vitamin C and carotenoids, peppers also contain luteolin, an important antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
Four South Africans are doing things the natural, old-fashioned way, from cheese making to meat curing to flour millingRICHARD HOLMES Stone-ground flour: Nico Steyn of Eureka Mills Great things often come from small beginnings, and that is certainly the case with Eureka Mills, South Africa’s smallest commercial flour mill. Set amid the rolling wheat fields of the Overberg, Eureka was born in 1998 when two farmers decided to mill their own flour using traditional stone-grinding methods. This gentle grinding keeps the wheat as natural as possible, says Nico. “Unlike commercial roller mills, with a stone mill the temperature is much…
Simple tips for smart food… by Anna Montali4 puff with pastry How to make apple custard tarts For the custard, place 200ml milk and 1 split vanilla pod…
TO DRINK: Ouzo, of course, with a little iced water mixed in.
Melanie Hansche takes a bite of the new, the classic, the fun and the fancy…According to the register of The New York Health Department, there are currently 24…
Find out who cooks what in Cyrildene’s vibrant Chinatown, where fireworks explode at New Year and every day is a fresh celebration of flavourANNA TRAPIDOThe restaurants of Derrick Avenue in Johannesburg’s Cyrildene reflect the culinary diversity of the estimated 300 000 Chinese immigrants who have arrived in South Africa since 1994. This foodie hot-spot offers a plethora of Chinese culinary styles including those of Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian and Manchuria. In addition to the eateries selling classic Chinese food, the area also services a growing taste for South East Asian (Vietnamese, Cambodian and Thai) dishes. So far, so delicious. The…