What's fresh now?

What's in season?

Veg - Sweet potatoes; asparagus - green & white; beetroot...

Fruit - Guava; PawPaw; Pineapple

Try eat what's in season, it will taste so much better! And besides, who wants to eat fruit thats been jam-packed and flown thousands of miles before getting to our plates? Local, fresh & seasonal is the way to go!

Melkkos

We thought we'd give you our recipe for Melkkos just before it goes off the winter menus!

1 cup flour
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon butter
1 egg
3 cups milk
Sugar
Cinnamon

Method:
Sift flour and salt together and rub butter into mixture.
Add the whisked egg and mix thoroughly.
Roll the dough out thinly and cut into 4cm strokes.
Sprinkle flour over strips, stack them and chop up in fine pieces.
Heat the milk till boiling point and add the slivers of dough.
Cook for 10 minutes.
Add sugar and cinnamon according to taste and cook through.
More milk can be added if mixture is too thick.

until next winter...

Hot Sauce!

It's a rare entrepreneur who doesn't have challenges to overcome, but for most, incarceration isn't one of them. That's not stopping a group of inmates in Florida's Hillsborough County Jail, however, from making and selling their own line of hot sauce. JailHouseFire hot sauce comes in three varieties—Original, Smoke and No Escape—all made by inmates at the minimum-security jail from peppers grown right there onsite. What's especially compelling is that rather than glossing over the product's roots, the prisoners' marketing of the sauce makes the most of its origins, with slogans like "So Lethal" and "Murder on Taste Buds" "Created with Conviction" - very clever!

We'd love to try it!

Website: www.jailhousefire.org

Source: www.springwise.com

Mieliemeel Orange Cake

Finally, the Sarie Kos Mieliemeel cake! And it's gluten free! Swop Oranges for Lemons for different flavours.

Ingredients

450g butter, softenend

450g castor sugar

400g ground almonds

10ml vanilla essence (or better, extract)

6 eggs

zest of 4 oranges

juice of 1 orange

225g mieliemeel

7ml baking powder

2ml salt

Method

Preheat the oven to 160C. Grease a 30cm cake tin and line with baking paper.

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add almonds and mix. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix to combine. Pour into cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.

This is a really different, delicious treat for tea time or dessert - served with thick cream.

Food shopping

Food shopping in a foreign country can be tricky.

Cool !

I guess we have a thing for fridges at the moment?

How cool is this though? We can see it in a stylish student's res room or digs? Electrolux Lego Fridge.

source: http://www.inhabitat.com/

Going Bananas?

We were absolutely horrified reading this story on Food Waste. We cannot believe that people can throw away food like this? Please look at these photo's from The Guardian http://bit.ly/HGZhk

Let's be more aware of what we throw away!