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Live-Cook Channel challenges home cooking skills: making Chef Reuben Riffel’s Pan-roasted prawns and hake!

 

During earlier Levels of Lockdown last year I was invited to participate in the Live-Cook Channel cook-alongs, starting with none less than Chef Luke Dale Roberts of The Test Kitchen. I had the assistance of my MasterChick Jenny Stephens at my side, and she did most of the cooking and I made notes, poured the wine, and took photographs. This was to become our pattern in three such Live-Cook Channel challenges. Yesterday I decided to challenge myself to do the cooking of Chef Reuben Riffel’s Pan-roasted prawns and hake on my own, making it a real hands-on experience.

It was a nerve-wracking experience in preparing it on my own, but I am proud of the end-result.

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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 66 of Level 1, 25 November 2020.

 

Wednesday 25 November 2020, Day 66 of Level 1, Day 245 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a lovely sunny day, not too warm at 18C; for a good night’s sleep; for diving right into my new Environment portfolio regarding cleaning the Camps Bay Beachfront; for receiving two boxes of Vegan products from B-Well, promoting Vegan Month; for easily baking a Vegan Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake in a Mug, missing my MasterChick Jenny Stephens, it not being as fluffy and light as I expected it to be; for a walk to Camps Bay, including a Pick n Pay shop, being lucky to have the new nice cashier again, and for a walk in Bakoven, with little litter today 🙏; for two Discovery Vitality Gameboard plays, scoring 360 points, enough to buy a R100 Woolworths voucher for only 750 Miles (R75) together with Miles left over from last week; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 17 of Level 1, 7 October 2020.

 

Wednesday 7 October 2020, Day 17 of Level 1, Day 195 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a sunny day, slightly cooler at 19C; for a long deep sleep; for receiving another delivery of ingredients for the B-Well online cooking with Chef Jennifer Morris, which turned out to be great fun, doing it alone for the first time, missing my MasterChick Jenny Stephens; for a walk to Camps Bay this afternoon, meeting with Marius Blanc and Zahrah of The 41, to discuss our next Camps Bay Beach Clean Up ón 31 October; for being able to borrow a potato peeler which I don’t own, doing so little cooking, least of all of potatoes, from Chris Papayannes at Tindlovu, as Pick n Pay does not sell them; for dancing the rest of my steps to Kfm 💃; for receiving two Discovery Gameboard plays and 360 Miles; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 3 of Level 2, 20 August 2020.

 

Thursday 20 August 2020, Day 3 of Level 2, Day 147 of Lockdown. 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for all the light rain that fell today, almost all day, only allowing me a quick walk through Bakoven; for a busy writing and admin day; for being spoilt with the delivery of a box of ingredients this morning, which was transformed into a Chicken Ballotine by our MasterChick Jenny Stephens this evening, a recipe created and our cooking guided by Chef Jennifer Morris via livestream, with Chef Peter Goffe-Wood the MC; for not being subjected to Loadshedding today; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →