Food and Drink – Page 2 – Notes from the Cape

Published February 15, 2016

Cape Town Burger Festival

If you weren’t at the burger festival this weekend you lost out. They should have more correctly called it the burger and beer festival, because there was plenty of amazing craft beer.

It’s great to see how many small scale breweries there are now in Cape Town, and tasting how good some of the beers are! There was plenty to taste, and the beer community has such amazing people in it – so passionate about their beer, and so willing to share.

Of course beer goes hand in hand with burgers, and it was difficult to choose which stand to buy a burger from. I eventually settled on a 3-cheese burger – mozzarella and cheddar mixed into the patty, topped with blue cheese from Fat Harry’s. I don’t normally eat chips, but after a 30k run this morning I was hungry, and I am glad I ate the chips. Without a doubt they are the best chips I have ever eaten.

It turns out that Fat Harry’s is a restaurant in Harfield Village; I will be taking a turn there to try their other burgers. Here is their website. http://www.fatharrys.co.za

Here’s a pic of my burger; you can decide for yourself how good it looks.

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Published February 10, 2016

Viennese coffee and cake

Vienna is known for its coffee shops, and with good reason! The coffee and cakes are wonderful, enjoyed in the splendour of comfortable leather armchairs. I could get quite comfortable with Viennese life.

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I had coffee with whipped cream, enjoyed with a Mozart cake, which is layers of light and dark chocolate.

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Published October 5, 2015

Fat bombs

A friend of mine sent me an amazing recipe for low-carb chocolates – basically made from coconut oil and butter.

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The original recipe is from Primal Perks, and here is my version. The main differences is that I dropped the sweetener, used peanut butter (yes I know peanuts contain carbs but given the amount used it will add very little to the total) and I made 1/2 the quantity for my first attempt.

By the way it only takes about 10 min to make.

Ingredients

90 g coconut oil
25 g nut butter (almond or macadamia) – if you are not too purist use crunchy peanut butter which is what I did
1.5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
60 g unsalted butter
1 tablespoon vanilla essence

Method

Melt all ingredients together in a pot
Cool mixture slightly and pour into ice-cube trays
Put into freezer to set for a few hours
Once set, pop them out of the mould and place in freezer bags

They are excellent and very filling. They naturally separated a little as they froze, giving that nice three-layer effect. I think they may make a great pre-race snack which I will try on my next race.

Thanks to my friend Trevor for sending the original recipe to me.

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Published April 2, 2014

Beer festival time

The South Yeasters Beer Club (of which I am a member) are hosting a beer festival this Sunday, at the SAB brewery in Newlands. There will be over 40 home-made beers available to sample. So if you want to check out the home-brew scene, or just try some amazing beers pop over for an hour or two. Tickets are R100 (that’s about what you will pay retail for 3 craft beers – you will get to try over 40).

To get you in the mood, here are a few pics from my brewery.

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Published March 5, 2014

International Absinthe Day

Don’t forget that today is International Absinthe Day, so remember to have some when you get home this evening (like you really need an excuse that is).

This local absinthe (which in my opinion is much better than the Czech Absinthe) is made by my friend Roger Jorgensen

Pouring Absinthe in the traditional manner.

In Prague you can get it on every street corner, and if the drink is not to your taste, try the ice cream or a cocktail. But be warned, it is dangerous stuff.

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Published February 11, 2014

The meal we almost ate

We had dinner the other day at one of the restaurants at the V&A Waterfront and Lois ordered one of the vegetarian meals. This divine looking vegetarian platter arrived a few minutes later (certainly much better than the baked potato, spinach and butternut vege platters of the 80’s). But the only problem is that it is not what she ordered. But that didn’t stop me from taking a quick photo of it before it was whisked away to be rapidly replaced with the correct meal.

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Published November 3, 2013

Pig’s Knee

You can buy pig’s Knee, or Eisbein as I usually know it, at almost every restaurant in Prague. While they are often served boiled, the baked knee with the crispy skin is by far the best. Really yummy. I am sure that I personally am responsible for a huge upsurge in sales.

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Published April 17, 2013

Taste of Cape Town

On Friday evening, Lois and I went to the Taste of Cape Town festival. It was an amazing mix of great food, fantastic wines, and a massive selection of micro-beer. In short, a great evening!

I think that the best part of it was that most of the vendors were small independent companies making and selling great produce, and there was so much to choose from. Several restaurants were selling starter portions of their signature dishes, so both Lois and I filled up on a selection of small meals.

Fresh Spices from the Jewel of India; their curry was amazing. Lois had the vege and myself a chicken curry.

Some of the the beer from the Craft Beer Project; mostly sourced from micro-breweries. We shared a lovely pear and then apple cider.

French Onion Soup and Muscles.

The festival is spread out on a field at the Green Point Cricket Club, and you can park in the Stadium just across the road. This is the first time that we have been to the fair, but it was a lovely way to spend a Friday evening, and I am sure that we will both be back next year.

Yes there are loads of people, but it is so spread out that you hardly feel crowded at all.

Here are a few more pics.

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Published November 9, 2012

Summer strawberries

Nothing fancy for today’ picture, but you really cannot beat the yummy flavour of fresh summer strawberries for breakfast.

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Published October 20, 2012

First impressions of Barcelona

Lois and I have been back from our trip to Spain and France for about 2 weeks now, and I am finally getting my photos into a semblance of order (well at least ordered enough to start posting them here). We had a wonderful experience in Barcelona, but I am really not sure where to start to describe it (the food, architecture, people, festivals or the culture).

Well I guess that it is best to start with my first impressions. It was noisy, hot, full of people and I loved it all! This is a city where the rule “never leave home without your camera” applied. Almost every time I left the apartment I found something to shoot. Sometimes it was a planned trip, but more often that not it was something unexpected that was not on the itenary, and certainly not in the guide book.

Like Venice, Barcelona is a city where you want to wonder around and get a little lost (something that in the Gothic Quarter where we were staying was very easy). You will find wonderful squares, fountains and moments of quiet in the most unexpected places.

I cannot tell you exactly where this square was or how to get there, but I think it makes for an amazing photo. It reminds me of those confusing Escher pictures of the stairs going all over the place.

And this fountain was found in a little building called Casa de l’Ardiaca (the door was open so I just walked in), right next to the Barcelona Cathedral. I am not quite sure if it is open to the public because next time the door was firmly locked.

Neither of these two places were on my “shoot list” for out trip, but I am really happy with both shots. In my next post I will speak a little about the food in Barcelona.

By the way, in case you are wondering why the watermarks in my images have come back (I have been resisting it for ages), it is because somebody else started watermarking my images (with my name) on my behalf, so I have caved in :-)

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