• Louise Gillett of Bartholomeus Klip believes in buying local, staying seasonal and cooking to please her own palate. Richard Holmes If you ever need evidence of the changing…

    For a more substantial meal, you could serve these eggs with crispy pancetta or bacon and oven-roasted tomatoes. COOK’S TIP For the best results when poaching, use the freshest possible…

    Roll leftover scraps of dough (bread dough works particularly well) into a sausage shape and cut into 2cm pieces. Toss to coat in a little cake flour and shake off the excess. Deep-fry until golden brown, almost like minivetkoek, for about 2 – 3 minutes. Drain on kitchen towel and dust with icing sugar, ground cinnamon and ground cloves or drizzle with syrup or honey while warm.

    Puff pastry is used in dishes such as steak and kidney pie, sausage rolls, apple turnovers and the classic French dessert, mille feuille, meaning “thousand leaf” for its many layers of flaky, buttery pastry. Making puff pastry from scratch is a time-consuming exercise, but ready-made puff pastry can be found in the freezer section of most supermarkets. A few handy hints will give your puff pastry the lift it needs to rise to any occasion: Work with chilled pastry on a cold, lightly floured surface and handle your pastry as little as possible (don’t bunch scraps together and roll out…

    Chef Floris Smith has put Bushmans Kloof on the global culinary map, with earthy local flavours that match the wild landscape of the Cederberg region. By Rosanne Buchanan…