5 tools for tackling fruit
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by Marina in Kitchen Gear
Peeling, coring and liberating fruit from skin, pips and stones is not the type of kitchen task most people would write home about. But, such tasks needn’t remain a chore. Clever designers around the world are constantly coming up with new and creative ways to conquer apples, cherries, pears and berries. Here are five tools [...]
Minichefs: traffic light juice & lollies
Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
Got little people? Tired of explaining the merits of things their taste buds probably won’t appreciate for a good few years? Welcome to the wonderful world of juicing. With a few churns spinach, carrots, beetroot and pretty much anything you can think of can be blended with apples and transformed into a delicious drink. Ingredients: [...]
Going green: what are heirloom veggies?
Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Sigrid in News & Trends
If you hang around food markets long enough you’re bound to hear about heirloom veggies sooner or later and may wonder what all the fuss is about. Here is a little explanation of the fuss, which we hope will put wind in your healthy veg sails. Hybrid versus heirloom seeds Since the advent of centralised farming [...]
Top Kitchen Tools of 2011
Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Sigrid in Kitchen Gear
We’re still reeling from the happy whirlwind that was 2011. As is our custom, we bring you a walk through the kitchen tool hits of 2011 and reveal which tools rocked the most boats over the last 12 months. Some of these we knew were going to happen (the Zoku was a dead giveaway, it is [...]
Banoffee Pies, NYC & a Little Lion Man
Posted on 05. Jan, 2012 by Marina in Yuppiechef Diary
We love hearing from people in our kitchen tool and wider food community. Sometimes people email us, sometimes they post cooking pics on our Facebook but whatever the format and whatever the news, we are always delighted. Here are some community snippets from December. The word on the street is that people liked our first ever [...]
Smoked Salmon & Cucumber Pickle Club Sandwich
Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Marina in Food & Drink
The club sandwich is an institution with businessmen, sportspeople, feasting ladies of leisure and pretty much everyone on the planet. Historically, they were constructed from multiple slices of bread and held together with hors d’œuvre sticks and often included bacon, chicken and lots of cheese. These days, the sky (or the sea) is the limit. [...]
The 5 Golden Rules of Wedding Registries
Posted on 30. Dec, 2011 by Marina in News & Trends
With the summer sun blasting and holidays in the air, it truly is the season to be wed. We live and breathe the world’s best kitchen tools and offer an online gift and wedding registry so friends and family can easily spoil brides, grooms and other lucky people with the world’s best kitchen gear. Sound [...]
Summer Entertaining: Tomato Tartlets
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Renée Nesbitt in Food & Drink
This makes a lovely light lunch served with a crisp green salad (serves 6) or works perfectly as a colourful addition to your next summer entertaining menu. Ingredients: 400g puff pastry (defrosted) 400g baby rosa tomatoes 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp sea salt 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper 2 [...]
Peppermint crisp ice cream
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by Marina in Food & Drink
Ice cream is a hallmark of summer. Learning to make it from scratch will change the way you eat it and set you sailing from the realm of vanilla scoops with chocolate sauce off and away into a sunset of gourmet sorbets and fresh fruit fiestas and perhaps, this a crispy peppermint adventure. Ingredients: 2 cups [...]
The Yuppiechef End of Year Dinner at the Woodlands Eatery
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by Marina in People & Places, Yuppiechef Diary
It was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Actually , it was last week Tuesday, we were in a restaurant making a good lot of noise… And there were some shrews. It was the Yuppiechef Christmas partytjie. The charming Woodlands Eatery in Vredehoek, [...]
