Lunch menu 20 August 2011

I am pleased to announce the lunch menu for Saturday 20 August as follows: Lunch Menu 20 August 2011 Cape seeded loaf  Melon cocktail  ~ Sicilian potato cake  Tossed green salad  ~  Chocolate crusted lemon tart  ~  Tea & Coffee Homemade truffles Suggested donation...

This piggy went to market

I am very much into the idea of supporting local food and low food miles.  Being able to identify where food has come from is important to me and the best way to ensure this is by visiting local farmer’s markets and farm shops in my area. There are three markets that...

Chez Shamwari’s inaugural afternoon tea

Saturday 2 July was an exciting day for me as it saw the inaugural afternoon tea at Chez Shamwari.  Attendance at this event was by private invitation only to friends of mine who didn’t mind being guinea pigs to my ‘full dress rehearsal’ of afternoon tea. I thought a...

Coffee and cake

Now to me a cup of coffee is a waste of time unless I’ve got something sweet to eat with it.  That something sweet really needs to be a cake or pud of some sort.  A biscuit, for example, wouldn’t really fit the bill. Saturdays and Sundays I really look...

Nothing goes to waste in this house

I hate wasting any food so am always looking for ideas to use up those bits of leftovers and nothing more so than egg whites.  I seem to always have a lot of egg whites as I make my own ice cream (my signature flavour being my own rendition of “Baileys”!)...