Father’s Day gifts needn’t be extravagant or store-bought. Showing your love can be as easy as sharing a meal and quality time with Dad. Try out this delicious steak with a side of creamy mushroom-and-green-peppercorn sauce, paired with the 2012 Frans K Smit Red Blend from Spier. This simple...
Peppermint Crisp Tart is an iconic traditional South African dessert, falling into the quirky category of 'fridge tarts'. These tarts were at the height of their popularity in the seventies, no doubt promoted by canny corporations and food manufacturers to encourage fridge sales.
Or something like that.
Many adaptations of the...
Christmas ain't Christmas without a decent, proper Christmas cake, and who better to bake one than chef Mynhardt Joubert?
Cake cheerleaders and Christmas fans (i.e. my entire household) will be thrilled to know that Chef Mynhardt Joubert’s famous fruit cakes are on sale again. This much-loved chef slayed the season...
What a happy feeling it is to bake something so delicious. This is Pure Pie Happiness, my friend, with capital letters. My baking motto is: if I can bake this, then so can you. Because I'm not a great baker. And when I find a recipe that turns out such...
What goes together like love and marriage? Trout and rosé, of course! To push out the boat a little for this Valentine's Day, chef Mynhardt Joubert suggests serving his gorgeous creation below with KWV's equally lush Shiraz Rosé. It's a lot easier to make than it looks, so don't...
Douglas Green went and sexed up the whole local sherry scene with the launch of their new Spanish sherry range. It’s not for sipping, it’s for drinking by the bottle! Yep, you read that right.
Long relegated to the back of the drinks cupboard as the preferred tipple of little...
Summer Chicken Salad with Fresh Coriander and Lime
Too hot to cook? Here's an easy solution! Keep ypur cool by making this delicously easy Fresh Coriander and Lime Chicken Salad. Created by TV personality, KWV brand ambassador and well-known chef, Mynhardt Joubert, it's ideal paired with KWV Chenin Blanc.
Quick and...
I like my seafood simple and prawns are no exception. Peri-peri is one of my favourite ways to cook and eat prawns, and I can vividly recall the very first time I had it, aged 5, on holiday in Durban. The sauce was so violently hot that tears streamed...
I've been experimenting with traditional pumpkin fritter/pampoenkoekie recipes lately, so I had quite a bit of roast pumpkin left over. Luckily I also had Serena Jacobson's vegetarian cookbook Fields of Flavour handy, so I adapted this cake recipe into a rather yummy loaf using the surplus pumpkin.
I love the subtle...
Spiced tea, or as we call it 'chai', has become a hugely popular drink. Sold in powdered, teabag or loose leaf form, it can be enjoyed hot or cold.
Actually, the word 'chai' simply means 'tea' in India, and what we're really talking about is masala chai, or spiced tea. It's...
