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recipes

vodka and tomato pasta with smoked salmon

September 6, 2010

 The inspiration behind this recipe goes back a very long way.  I was at school with an Italian girl and her mother used to make a vodka pasta sauce, which was essentially fresh tomatoes (skinned) cooked very slowly with vodka.  It was delicious.
Over the years I have made this many times using both fresh and tinned [...]

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orange malva pudding

September 1, 2010

This pudding should actually be called ‘death by malva pudding’, or butter because that is exactly what it is.
I discovered it when it was served at a friends supper last year and I immidiately recognised it as the best version I had ever tasted.
A very looog story about tracking the recipe down over a period of about 6 [...]

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snoek with smoked butter, garlic and apricot jam

August 30, 2010

One of my oldest and closest friends was out on holiday from Michigan where she now lives, and one of her requests while she was here (in addition to a cheddarmelt burger from the Spur), was to tuck into a nice piece of snoek.
We had a farewell lunch for her yesterday and I arranged the snoek [...]

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smoked tuna on guacamole and rocket

August 22, 2010

 The last 6 weeks I have been very busy starting a new cold smoked food business, so this recipe was developed for our website at The Smoking Shed.
To make the gaucamole lightly mash a couple of avocado’s with finely sliced spring onions, a few chopped pickled jalapeno chillies (depending on how hot you like it), the juice [...]

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pumpkin soup with thai red curry and smoked pumpkin seeds

August 17, 2010

My business partner and I went on a scounting mission to the Cape Town fresh produce market in Epping recently, and as we were wandering around we stumbled across a crate of the most beautiful looking pumpkins. 
I just had to get one.
As this is a mass buying market, its not always the easiest trying to buy a [...]

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chocolate nemesis: the river cafe

August 15, 2010

I think chocolate nemesis is the best possible name they could have given to this cake.  I’m not really sure what it is. Its part cake, part mousse but without a doubt, its 100% decadent, dark, delicious and totally irresistible.
I was pleased that I made it for a friends birthday and gave it away immediately, thus having the temptation [...]

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strawberry, white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies

August 9, 2010

I have been on a bit of a cookie making mission lately and decided to revisit a previous winning recipe of white choc, cranberry and pecan nut cookies, but this time I used dried strawberries instead of cranberries, and macadamia nuts instead of pecans.
I had bought the dried strawberries in Stellenbosch on a strawberry farm, but saw them the other day at Komati [...]

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pickled mushrooms with herbs, garlic and raspberry balsamic

July 22, 2010

This recipe was given to me by a foodie friend who said they were sensational, and its been in my ‘blog -to-do-file’ for a while.
I tweaked it to include the very delicious Verlaque Balsamic Reduction with raspberries, and what a win it was.
What you need to make:

500 gms Button Mushrooms
4-5 Cloves Garlic finely chopped or squashed
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
3 [...]

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smoked apple pork sausages

July 20, 2010

I have recently become quite enraptured with smoking food and have been dying to get stuck in and try it out. 
I have neither the hot smoker nor the inclination to light a fire, but armed with a solid understanding of the technique, I decided to try a stove top, hot smoke version using an ordinary pot with [...]

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perfect peanut butter cookies

July 7, 2010

I inherited the book ‘The Joy of Cooking’ by Irma Rombauer from my mother who in turn had inherited from her mother.  The book was first published in the USA in 1931 and  my copy is the 1952 edition.
I have never made anything from it, but have read bits and pieces and use it more as a reference. I am however [...]

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