{"id":32093,"date":"2012-04-30T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=32093"},"modified":"2012-05-01T23:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:44:35","slug":"masterchef-sa-episode-7who-will-be-booted-out-win-with-grande-provence-and-new-chef-darren-badenhorst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/franschhoek\/masterchef-sa-episode-7who-will-be-booted-out-win-with-grande-provence-and-new-chef-darren-badenhorst\/","title":{"rendered":"MasterChef SA episode 7:who will be booted out? Win with Grande Provence and new Chef Darren Badenhorst!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MasterChef SA is the talk of the country, and we have 12 more gripping episodes to look forward to in the next three months. To spice things up a little, we have launched two competitions, the <\/span>first being a prediction of who will win MasterChef SA in episode 18<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are also running a weekly lucky draw for the correct prediction of who our readers think will be booted out of the MasterChef SA every week. \u00a0For the correct prediction of who will leave MasterChef SA in episode 7 tomorrow (1 May), Grande Provence<\/strong> has generously offered a 3-course restaurant voucher for two, to the value of R600 to the winner.<\/p>\n

It is sad to have bid Chef Darren Roberts goodbye, who was at the helm of the Grande Provence kitchen for almost three years and took it to an Eat Out Top 20 Restaurant<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/strong>He is leaving to take up a new position at a hospitality group in the Seychelles.\u00a0 Chef Darren Roberts is very talented, and his plating has been most impressive.\u00a0 Following in his footsteps, and having been the sous chef for the past year, is the new Executive Chef Darren Badenhorst, who takes over the Grande Provence kitchen from today.\u00a0 The two chefs handed over to each other in the past month already, when Chef Darren Roberts went to Australia.<\/p>\n

Chef Darren Badenhorst left school in Durban to study marketing, but gave up after a year, because \"\"<\/a>he realised that his passion lay in cooking. He enrolled at the Christina Martin School of Food and Wine, the most prominent culinary school in KwaZulu-Natal, where he did a\u00a0 one year intensive, \u2018extremely strenuous\u2019,<\/em> diploma course. \u00a0From there he went to the Benguerra Lodge in Mozambique as Executive Chef, but his stay was short-lived, having to evacuate the island after the worst ever cyclone to hit Africa destroyed most buildings on the island. He was appointed at Zimbali Boutique Hotel as Chef de Partie. He then moved to Eat Me Gourmet Caf\u00e9, a private contract catering company,\u00a0 moving to Three Cities\u2018 One on One Events catering company, promoted to Executive Chef. Feeling that he had reached a glass ceiling, he moved to the Cape, and joined Gregory Czarnecki\u00a0at Waterkloof. In this time he met Chef Darren Roberts at one of the magnificent Big Five Multiple Sclerosis charity lunches<\/a><\/span><\/strong> <\/a>at which Waterkloof had participated, and saw him as an \u2018industry dad\u2019.<\/em> The two chefs will stay in touch, having been a good team.<\/p>\n

He sees the level of cuisine in the Cape to be far beyond that of any other region, and believes that competition between restaurants brings out the best in them, and is key to creating consistency. Flair and passion must show at all times. \u00a0He admires Chef Neil Jewell for his charcuterie, there being no comparison, and Chef Margot Janse from Le Quartier Francais, for her creativity and experimentation with the food that she prepares.\u00a0 Chef Darren Badenhorst says that he will not change the menu drastically, sticking to the fine dining French cuisine with an Asian twist.\u00a0 The quality will be the same, but he will add his stamp to it.\u00a0 He has a small team of six in the kitchen, which will grow next summer.\u00a0 He lives on the Grande Provence farm, and loves\"\"<\/a> his job, rarely taking time off.\u00a0 He likes to create dishes with balance, in texture and in colour. \u00a0Coming from the Natal coast, he loves diving and spearfishing, and also therefore preparing seafood. His first new addition to the menu is a delicious soft shell crab starter on pan-fried sushi with sesame seed, with a soft boiled yolk presented in a beautifully crafted kataifi pastry, the colour coming from a red pepper aioli, and finished off with soya and wasabi pearls. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tweet your prediction of which of the <\/span>14 remaining finalists<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>will be booted out of MasterChef SA to\u00a0@WhaleCottage, or e-mail it to whalecot@iafrica.com.\u00a0Closing time for entries\u00a0is\u00a0Tuesday 1 May at 19h30,\u00a0at\u00a0the start of episode 7. \u00a0The winner will be contacted immediately after the show ends. There will be a weekly Restaurant Voucher prize draw per episode for the correct prediction of who will be booted out of MasterChef SA, and voting for the following episode can start as soon as that day\u2019s episode has been aired. Should there be no correct entry received, the prize is rolled over to go to another week.<\/span><\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT 1\/5<\/strong>: No one correctly predicted that Mmutsi Maseko would be voted out in episode 7 this evening. \u00a0The Grande Provence restaurant voucher will go forward to another MasterChef SA week.<\/p>\n

The Restaurant at Grande Provence,<\/strong> R45, Franschhoek. Tel (021) 876-8600. www.grandeprovence.co.za<\/a> Twitter: @DarrenBChef \u00a0Monday – Sunday, Lunch and Dinner.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a> <\/span>Twitter:@WhaleCottage<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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