Michael Olivier, author of Michael Olivier a restaurateur remembers, and his excellent food and wine website www.michaelolivier.co.za, offers us his recipe for his Christmas in July Pudding. This is a classical old family recipe which was known as Aunt Marge’s last minute Christmas Pudding, perfect ending for your Christmas in...

19 July, 2016 /

The recipe for the sauce is based on one that appears in Pete Goffe Woods’s book Kitchen Cowboys, a course I did with him some time back. To cook the rib You’ll need: 2.5kg short rib of beef cut into squares Sea Salt & freshly ground black pepper 2 –...

19 April, 2016 /

You’ll need: 1 pack Smoked Salmon Strips 200g 1 tub flavoured Cream Cheese Mediterranean Delicacies Caramelised Onion Dip Or Parmalat Salmon Cream Cheese Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon 2 Tbs chopped parsley 2 Tbs chopped dill sea salt and freshly milled black pepper Melba Toast to serve. Method: Line 4 heart shaped moulds or...

24 February, 2016 /

You’ll need: 500g Lean Beef Mince 500g Pork Mince 10g coriander seeds, roasted, pounded and sieved ¼ tsp ground cloves ½ tsp ground nutmeg ¼ ground allspice 1 tsp brown sugar 1 Tbs brown vinegar Oryx Desert Salt and freshly milled black pepper Castle Milk Stout Barbecue Sauce, recipe below To serve: 6 Slices cheese Cheddar or Jarlsberg 6...

27 January, 2016 /

You’ll need: 250g stale brown breadcrumbs [insides only not crusts], 200g each seedless raisins, currants, unbleached Orange River sultanas, 80g chopped glacé pineapple, 80g glacé cherries, 250g soft brown sugar, 100g blanched almonds roughly chopped, 1 large Granny Smith apple grated with the skin on, the finely...

23 December, 2015 /