The Natural and Organic Show

The Natural and Organic Products Exhibition caters for environmentally aware, intelligent consumers and trade representatives looking for sustainable solutions to suit their changing life style and work style requirements. Key concerns are health, safety and the environment which are driving consumers to be more informed and to make better choices.

• The Gauteng Good Food & Wine Show 2008

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Cooking-Classes

Winter is here and we have put together a lovely soup evening,

hot and dreamy and “O” so creamy

The class will consist of the following

We will discuss and dem Basic stocks

chicken and fish

We will discuss and dem what is a Veloute basis for soup, sauces and casserole such as

chicken a la king, fricassee

Everybody will be making the following soups:

Creamy broccoli with a hint of blue cheese

Roasted butternut and capsicum

Moroccan chicken soup with Couscous

Greek legume (beans, chick peas) with thyme, potatoes, garlic and olive oil (dem and tasters for all)

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About The Décor…

Restaurant reviews need to be handled with extreme care. Invariably, great financial investment has been made and the venture is usually a long-held dream of the owner. The reviewer, effectively, wields the power to crush such dreams and ultimately affect the lives of these entrepreneurs. When one reads a restaurant review, where the writer begins by spending an inordinate amount of words describing the décor, one knows that the establishment is doomed.

Recently I donned my red heels and I went along, at the request of friends who need a bit of free PR, to a recently opened ‘bistro’ for an early supper. In the interests of kindness, I won’t mention the suburb...

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About Books...

Some days I don’t crack a luncheon invitation and can allow the red shoes a day of rest, loll about on my sofa with a pot of tea and indulge in a good read.

For many years, I have leaned toward literature where food is the supporting act.  Not cookery books per se; but novels with an underlying thread of the everyday preparation of meals and larder stockers.  Books like Zuretha Roos’s The Saffron Pear Tree and Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past; which I first read as a library books and so loved that I had to buy my own copies, to dip into over and again...