Prawn and avo starter
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!
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