The Constantia Food and Wine Festival...

Hello fellow food and wine lovers... If you love Bastille...you'll love this: Taking place at the Constantia Uitsig Cricket Oval from the 4th until the 6th of May 2012, the Constantia Food and Wine Festival will be showcasing over 40 different wines and an array of mouth watering dishes from the vineyards...

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How about some doughnuts...

I have to start off by saying that this recipe was inspired and adapted from my fav blog- 'I made that"  I wanted you all to have a step by step guide to making your own homemade doughnuts, and to see how EASY they are to make...  How to... make DOUGHNUTS! (Makes 10 – 12 doughnuts) 2 tsp active...

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Down in the Suburbs...

Wow!!!!-my literal reaction when I walked into the newly opened Societi Brasserie in Tokai earlier this year. The style and flavours of Societi remains the same in this menu and dishes are adapted every season. Executive chef Stéfan Marais is a master of using only the freshest seasonal produce,...

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Brownie in a mug...

Brownie in a mug... (for when you get the craving) Very easy hot molten dessert/brownie for one: (measurements are in tablespoons but can also be a heaped dessert spoon) 1x Mug 1 tablespoon of butter (melted in mug) then add.... 1 tablespoon cake flour 1 tablespoon white or...

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The perfect steak with a quick mushroom sauce...

I thought I'd share... after this awful weather, and half the household having run the half 2 oceans, we are all relaxing with a glass of wine and a medium rare thick cut rump steak. As I didn't run the 2 Oceans, I volunteered to make the steak and mushroom sauce (as no steak is ever complete without it). For...

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News of the day...

I stumbled across this article (worldnews.com) this morning and I thought I would share it with you… First came plastic wine bottles, and now a Melbourne entrepreneur hopes drinkers will embrace individual portions of sauvignon blanc or rose in disposable cups.  The ready-to-drink market has been...

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