Yesterday Kfm spent all day to announce the five finalists in each of its 30 categories of its 2022 Best in the Cape Awards.
It’s more than 1 million listeners will vote in deciding the winner in each of its 30 categories.
Category Archives: Baking
Reimagined Decorex opens at the Convention Centre, after a three year absence!
I attended the opening of the 2022 Decorex Africa exhibition at the Cape Town International Convention Centre yesterday, at which Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis spoke and cut the official opening ribbon.
Decorex Africa last exhibited in Cape Town three years ago, due the Lockdown, which commenced in March 2020.
A total of 300 exhibitors are participating in Decorex Africa in Cape Town over the ‘long weekend’, until Sunday.
UK Platinum Pudding Competition in honour of the Queen won by Lemon and Amaretti Trifle!
I love eating cake but am not a Cake Baker by any means.
Yet my eye caught an article about the Pudding which won The Platinum Pudding Competition in honour of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Competition was created by Fortnum & Mason especially for the Platinum Jubilee celebration.
Sweet Service Award goes to Hartlief; Sour Service Award goes to Deus Café!
The Sweet Service Award goes to Hartlief in the Garden’s Centre, for its friendly staff in the cold meat section and at the till, noticing when once has not shopped there for a while (for dietary reasons). On my last visit I was warned that their droëwors was drier than usual, and I was given a piece to try. Compared to its Constantia Branch, and Continental Butchery on Kloof Street, it is the most pleasant and least expensive German Deli to shop at in my experience. One can pre-order telephonically, one’s order being ready and waiting when one arrives!
MasterChef SA Season 4 comes to an end, Shawn Godfrey wins R 1 million!
It’s been an exciting month of MasterChef SA Season 4, which drew to a close tonight, when the three Finalists fought it out in the MasterChef kitchen, Shawn Godfrey winning the R1 million grand prize.
This week started off with six finalists, three cooking challenges and three eliminations, and three guest chef judges, until the 90 minute Grand Finale this evening. Continue reading →
Sweet Service Award goes to Labotessa Hotel; Sour Service Award goes to Constantia Fruit Truck!
The Sweet Service Award goes to Labotessa Hotel and Café and its owner Johan du Plessis, for his continuous generosity in spoiling me when I pop in there for their wonderful Appeltaart or all-Day Breakfast, sitting at their outside tables. It is a wonderful inner-City refuge with friendly Service, a Dutch-inspired interior design, and good food.
MasterChef SA Season 4 Week 3: Top 10 contestants, tomatoes, cake, honey and abalone on the menu!
The MasterChef SA Kitchen is getting hotter and hotter, and sadly three more contestants were eliminated in the past week.
During the past week a guest chef and a guest baker came to visit, and new challenges were set to the Kitchen Cook contestants. Continue reading →
MasterChef SA Season 4 Week 2: things heat up in the kitchen, more contestants have to go!
Last week I summarised the first week of Season 4 of MasterChef SA, during which five contestants were eliminated:
This post summarises the second week of the series, during which three more contestants were eliminated. Only 12 contestants go into this week of MasterChef SA. Continue reading →
Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 163 of Level 1, 12 March 2022.
Saturday 12 March 2022, Day 163 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a smooth flowing day; for a good breakfast at Botlierskop, with a beautiful yellow free range egg cheese omelet; for a careful drive to Knysna, with so many speed cameras and traps; for checking in at Turbine Hotel on Thesen Hotel, but our rooms taking another two hours to become available, so we went on a little walk on the island, the shops not much different to what I remember from a last visit at least 5 years ago; for bumping into Markus Färbinger, former owner of Ile de Pain Continue reading →
The Bailey new Bakery, Brasserie, and Bars on Bree Street, to be opened by Chef Liam Tomlin!
Now that Chef Liam Tomlin’s planned Russian restaurant in Moscow is unlikely to see the light of day for some time to come, he is putting all his energy into the renovations of an historic three-storey Tintswalo-owned building across the road from his first-ever Chefs Warehouse in Heritage Square, now called Pinchos.
It is said that Chef Liam is planning to leave or close Pinchos, the branch just not as successful in attracting customers as the Chefs Warehouses at Beau Constantia, Tintswalo, and Franschhoek. Tomlin has recently walked away from his Mazza and Local establishments in the former HQ, also located in Heritage Square.