Strawberries for breakfast
I love the deep red colours of ripe and juicy strawberries, and what better way to eat them that for breakfast with muesli. Unfortunately this is the tail-end of the season so that are not as quote big as a couple of months ago, but still an excellent way to start the day.
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For Christmas dinner, we had a “light” meal of coronation chicken, rice salad, rolls and this amazing prawn and avo starter. Who needs to goto a restaurant when your family will serve you fresh prawns?
My sister Sally made the entire meal, including this yummy starter. I think I will be eating at her house more often.
The Stone Kitchen
Last Sunday, we decided to drive to Wellington for lunch and some wine tasting. What we had completely forgotten is that small towns like Wellington close on a Sunday. Absolutely nothing was open. Well almost nothing…
Dunstone wines
But, it was still wonderful weather, so we were not going to let that stop us. So with the help of some friends who live in the area (thanks Doug from PT Productions and Dawn from Jorgensen Distillery), we managed to find what was probably the only open place in Wellington, but also one of the nicest restaurants I have ever been to. It is called The Stone Kitchen, and it is found on the Dunstone wine estate. At about 2 hectors of vines, it is a tiny little estate but with some fabulous wine. But the restaurant was great, the food was simple, fresh and tasty.
When we arrived they were full, but after a quick wine tasting at the bar counter (we finally got our wine tasting), they found us a table. The chef came out to introduce the menu, and we made our choices.
Warthog Burger
I had a grated warthog burger, with onion marmalade and cheese, and Lois had the goat’s cheese salad. Now for Lois to eat goat anything is pretty amazing! But at the chef’s instance she tried some of the goat cheese, and she loved it. She actually asked where they got such good goat’s cheese (that does not taste like, well…goat). I could tell you the answer but I will save that for a future post.
The chef
So two suggestions. Firstly if you want to go wine tasting on a Sunday, stick to the well-known areas like Stellenbosch or Paarl, and if you want a fantastic meal, goto the Stone Kitchen (but best to book – they were very full). And their sauvignon blanc and merlot are both brillant wines. We took a few bottle of each home with us.
Beef Kebabs for dinner
Last night, Lois took me out to dinner at the Cattle Baron in Tokai. I was not that hungry, so I thought that the beef kebab would be a suitably small meal. Boy, was I wrong! It was massive, beef packed on kebab sticks, and any spaces filled with mushrooms, peppers and pineapple. I had to seriously pace myself to finish it. The waiter even told me that it was a light meal, but he clearly lied.
I suppose that I would rather complain about a meal is too large, rather than a miserably small meal. And if it was not so good there is no way that I would have finished it. Tender and yummy. I am going to have to do at least an additional 20 minutes training after that meal!
The cool thing about the Cattle Baron is that their prices are good, their portion sizes are great, and they have a no corkage policy. Really great value. There are quite a few Cattle Barons, but we usually go to Tokai.
But be warned, the beef kebabs are huge!
At the market
Markets are always great places for photos, especially when there is great food. And when you goto a market in an Afrikaans area, you are assured of plenty of great food shooting opportunities.
This particular market was in the park directly across the road from our holiday house in Langebaan. Langebaan is a small seaside holiday village on the West coast about an hour from Cape Town. Like most small town markets, it had an eclectic collection of great food, lovely hand-crafts and rubbish. It amazes me how you can see wonderful food and beautiful carvings right next to miscellaneous junk from somebody’s recently cleaned up house. And I am not talking about old antiques. No, this is just junk that nobody wants, but is still for sale on the off-chance that somebody might buy it. And have you noticed how all markets have at least one junk stall?
Anyway, lets straight past the junk to the good stuff.
Big yellow blocks of Boere-kaas (farm cheese)
Handmade dark chocolate cupcakes
Handmade pepper grinders
These pepper grinders are hand made from tree branches, resulting in grinders that have a natural variation in shape and size. If you examine the quality of these grinders, and the hard work that went into the turning and varnishing of them, it is difficult to really put a fair price on them. They are truly beautiful.
These samosas were a little unexpected at an Afrikaans market (especially vegetarian samosas), but nevertheless they were freshly made, crispy and excellent.
Like most small markets you can walk through and see everything in about 1/2 an hour. Will you life be unfulfilled if you miss it? No. Will you have an enjoyable 1/2 hour delay if you are driving past? Yes, worth the visit, but don’t stay too long.
Go hungry!
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