eatdrinkcapetown

Celebrating life with food, wine, friends & happiness! Writer, cook and blogger. Author of four cookbooks. Passionately South African, proudly Capetonian.
477 POSTS

-

47 COMMENTS

Raisin bread toast with honey figs and ricotta

This simple and easy dish combines some of my favourite ingredients in most delectable way. I LOVE ricotta and am always looking for new ways to use it. For this, you'll need to use...

Saffron Rice Pilaff with Almonds and Minted Yoghurt

I love cooking with yoghurt - and eating it as is, too, of course - so I was well chuffed to receive a cooler bag of Fairview's new full-fat yoghurt last week. It's deliciously...

Buckwheat Noodles with Salmon and Avocado

I like messing with tradition, so this recipe from Jane Lawson's cookbook Yoshoku Contemporary Japanese is right up my alley. It's a beautifully styled and photographed collection of recipes that stem from the established tradition of...

How to make perfect pannekoek

South African food memories are laced with the heady combination of fried batter, cinnamon and sugar. We call that pannekoek, and the English call it pancake. But they are not one and the same...

How to Make Perfect Potroast Beef – Easy Recipe

Who doesn't treasure memories of the meltingly tender, richly flavoursome potroast their moms or grandma's fed them as children? I know I do! To me, it is one of the most maternal of dishes...

Top 10 South African hangover cures – post-election day

Today is National Voting Day, which means tomorrow is National Hangover Day. In the interests of public service and good health, I have done some research and came up with the following top 10...

How to Make Viskopsop: a Feast for the Famished

I first encountered viskopsop, that poor man's staple during the leanest and meanest of times, in the Constantia home of a posh family fallen on hard times. That they were all barking mad might...

Pickled fish for Easter: a recipe and Thando’s Number One Tip

Having lived in Cape Town for 20 years now, I still wonder why this beautiful city with her very colourful past lacks a unique, celebrated seafood dish to call her very own. We do...

Recent posts

Google search engine

Popular categories