How to make sushi rice
Posted on 02. Mar, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
Making sushi is just plain fun. It starts with a good tray of steaming, sticky sushi rice and this step by step recipe will help you make it like you’re big in Japan. Ingredients 250mls sushi rice 375ml water 5ml salt 30ml rice vinegar 30ml sugar Cooking the rice | Place the rice into a colander [...]
All the best, Ali cat
Posted on 02. Mar, 2012 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
Ali Dommisse joined Yuppiechef last year to be part of our busy and bustling marketing team. She is an expert in crafting beautiful emails, plant-tending, baking tasty cakes and something of a legend in our waters for letting us squeeze juice all over her face in our Juice it video. So the news, Ali is [...]
Two fresh juices from Ina Paarman
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
We’re friends with Ina Paarman, which means we get to hang out at her leafy business premises and talk about food, kitchen tools and South Africa. Ms Paarman got in touch recently to buy a juicer, and after investing in an Oscar DA900 she sent us these recipes for two of her favourite fresh juices, [...]
The great cheesecake debate
Posted on 29. Feb, 2012 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
We are having a debate. Well, we were, until this morning when a strictly monitored tasting, staff vote and conclusive results settled the great cheesecake debate: fridge or baked? Charise (married to one of the Yuppiechef directors) and Sean (our photographer and videographer) have discussed this – with varying levels of foodie passion and intensity – at [...]
Herby fish rub
Posted on 29. Feb, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
Eating fish and eating it well, is a wonderful thing. We invited Julie Carter of Ocean Jewels to our test kitchen to glean some of her favourite ways to prepare fresh fish at home. Julie is known for delivering tasty, fresh fish caught along the False Bay coast to people in and around Cape Town and is [...]
Vintage baking: Tarte au citron
Posted on 27. Feb, 2012 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
The tarte au citron has been described as the ‘staple of the Parisian patisserie’. Sure, the macaron or the ispahan may be more trendy and glamourous, but the tarte au citron has stood the test of time. A Parisian patisserie trolley without its lemony goodness would be like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse (aka sad). The [...]
HQ: taking stock
Posted on 27. Feb, 2012 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
This weekend was our stock take. There were nifty handheld scanners, busy people, tiny helping people and fish and chips. To the hard workers who gave up weekend time to count kitchen tools and get us gold stars from the friendly auditors, high five.
Which flours make the best bread?
Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
When it comes to flour, what’s in a name? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Flour is often just thought of in terms of wheat flour but it can be ground from a variety of things including buckwheat, barley, chickpea, corn, nut, potato, quinoa, rice, rye, soy, wheat and spelt. Which one should you choose? [...]
The best pancakes in the world?
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
In belated celebration of pancake day, a feast was had at Yuppiechef HQ this morning. Noel, who was previously famous for attempting to make Zoku pops out of 100% cream and without their sticks, is now famous for making the best pancakes in the world. Impressed? We were. He was using possibly the best pan [...]
Julia Child’s Gratin Dauphinois
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
Heard of Julia Child? Seen Julie&Julia? Please believe, this is a good recipe for potato bake. With sneaky tips like rubbing the pan with garlic and Swiss cheese for good measure it might well change the way you feel about the starch component of supper. Or lunch. Or breakfast. Delicious (and taken from Julia Child’s [...]
