Tokai Earth Fair Market
Posted on 01. Jun, 2011 by Marina in People & Places
We popped in at the Tokai Earth Fair Food Market last week, to buy ingredients for our latest Minichefs cookup. The market happens in two locations across Cape Town: Tokai (where we went) and St George’s Mall in the heart of the CBD, which is pretty fly for a food market (read Jules Durrant’s review of the St [...]
How to make compost and plant seedlings
Posted on 30. May, 2011 by Marina in People & Places
It is all too easy to buy herbs and vegetables from a squeaky clean supermarket and never count the cost of how they came to be. Last week, some of our Minichefs visited Soil For Life to flex their green fingers and get to grips with growing. Soil For life is a Cape Town based charity [...]
Minichefs: how to make Graham crackers
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by Marina in Food & Drink
We are delighted to introduce a new Spatula writer, and Minichef series contributor, Kristy Carlson. Kristy and her family will soon be moving to Burundi to pioneer the Long Miles Coffee Project (more on them soon). We hope you enjoy this fantastic post on how to make Graham crackers with little people. I don’t know [...]
Tangled DVDs and mystery Yuppiechef vouchers
Posted on 25. May, 2011 by Marina in News & Trends
Are you feeling lucky, person? We are pleased to announce Tangled is out on DVD and available on Kalahari.net and Musica stores across the country – and, that every copy contains a mystery Yuppiechef voucher code that will get you a discount of anything from 10-100% off a 20cm Swiss Diamond “Try Me” Pan on Yuppiechef. Nice, hey? What’s [...]
Eat For The Earth
Posted on 20. May, 2011 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
You might be wondering, what all this Eat For The Earth stuff is all about. Nodding? Read on. We are challenging anyone and everyone anywhere in the world to host a lunch this World Environment Day (Sunday 5 June) and do a little bit towards saving the world by raising funds for South African charity, Soil [...]
Pineapple and Beetroot Cake
Posted on 12. May, 2011 by Marina in Food & Drink
Leigh-Anne Du Plooy posted snaps of a be-a-utiful cake on our Facebook page, and we just had to sneak the recipe on here for all you beety bakers. Afterall, with beetroot currently in season, this will give you a perfect final-straw excuse to let yourself eat cake – or even two cakes, as according to [...]
Dinner à la Spatula
Posted on 09. May, 2011 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
Heard of the Cape Wine Academy? They offer a range of social and professional wine courses as well as fantastic wine-tasting events. Over the past year we’ve made friends with Fraser Gilchrist, who co-ordinates their wine courses, and he sent us a little heads up on Facebook a while back about a dinner he was planning, [...]
Which are you?
Posted on 06. May, 2011 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
This chocolate bunny appeared at HQ today, and we got to discussing that there are two types of people in the world: A: those who eat all of their Easter eggs as soon as they receive them, and B: those who stash them (often to eat them later to the dismay of type A onlookers). [...]
Make a Middleton tart
Posted on 05. May, 2011 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
What a kiss. What a couple. Apparently over two thirds of the world’s population watched Kate and Will tie the knot last week, which is not to be sneezed at. We couldn’t let the big day go by without having some commemorative fun… Anna Pavlova had a meringue and cream tower dedicated to her beautiful [...]
10 perfect gift ideas for Mother’s day
Posted on 04. May, 2011 by Marina in Kitchen Gear
Moms are radical. You should consider buying yours something to celebrate her nerves of wonderful womanly steel, this Sunday 8 May (aka Mother’s Day). Here’s a list of ten gifts guaranteed to make a lady smile: 1. PoachPods (R110) 2. Le Creuset Silicone Prep Bowls (R95) 3. Le Creuset Zen Stovetop Kettle (R550) 4. Cuisipro [...]
