Profiling a Local Food-Hero
Franco Buys tells us more about his food journey. Meet Chef Franco Buys, an award-winning local chef with a passion for good food. If you joined us at the Homemakers Fair earlier this year, you would have seen him in action in our Air Fryer theatre, and you’ll know just how great he is. We sat down with him and got into the details of what inspires him, what...Read More
Eat The Rainbow!
Brighten up your winter with these rainbow vegetables. There is more to the rainbow food than fruit salad and smoothies. We have all seen those TikTok’s celebrating brightly coloured rainbow smoothie bowels or fruit platters. Lovely, probably delicious, but full of expensive berries and watery Dagon fruit for the most part. What if we told you there are other,...Read More
Fight the frost with these bites…
Food for the changing season. The moment the temperature (and the rain) starts falling, you can’t turn around without bumping into a blog or magazine spinning tales about stews and soups or prattling on about pancakes. While we do like these (worn out) “winter – warmers”, we have a couple of fresh favourites for you to try this season. As much as we love a “hearty...Read More
Eggs are still a luxury (even though prices have dropped).
Eggcellent Eats! Remember last year, when having an egg was like having the newest iPhone? At a certain point, eggs were not just unaffordable, but simply unattainable. Due to a spate of bird flu induced chicken culling, we had a couple of months of egg-draught in Mzansi. Now, as a relatively committed vegetarian who loves a good soft poached egg, with a...Read More
Treat Yourself
Meal prep your way to a better week (every week) A Sunday well spent, brings a week of content. Meal prepping is so much more than just a buzzword. Although every second Tiktokker likes to show you their state-of-the-art meal prepping routine, with millions of little containers and finicky home-made feasts, it doesn’t have to be that way. Even the most basic...Read More
For the love of good food
Celebrate a different kind of romance this Valentines Day South Africans have become world renowned for our culinary credentials. Not only do local Chefs and restaurants regularly make it onto Best-Of lists, but even our food has become internationally acclaimed. Our wine, cheese and meat is regularly classed as some of the best in the world. These are various...Read More
To Freeze Or Not To Freeze
Fight food waste by freezing like a pro. We all know January has at least 187 days. We can’t change that; we can’t rush payday…but we can tell you how to make the most of your groceries. We are throwing away hope. According to Scielo, it is estimated that 12 million South Africans, (24.5% of the national population) go to bed hungry each day, and it is...Read More
Easy Meals Dinner Inspiration
What South Africans Are Cooking: 3 Easy Meals You Can Have On Repeat If you’re tired of cooking, and have found yourself in a rut of making the same meal on repeat, know that you are not alone! We know how it feels to need easy meals dinner inspiration! We asked various South Africans, from Kwazulu-Natal to the Western Cape, what their go-to mid-week meal is. We were...Read More
Royal Icing Cookies to wow your loved ones.
Steal the show this Christmas Nothing says “Christmas” like a box of home made treats! Fudge, Gingerbread cookies, old fashioned coffee cookies and shortbread… all of these have a place in your Christmas biscuit hamper… Baking your own cookies is an easy way to invest some sweat equity into your Christmas gifting budget. It’s cheaper than buying treats, and...Read More