Tips of the Week

It's very easy to make and taste delicious. Buy a stainless steel smoker from Cymot, open smoker, remove grid, lay foil on bottom, spread 2 tbsp oak shavings on foil, put grid on top, put butter fly snoek that has been spiced with chicken stock on top and drizzle with lemon juice. Close lid of smoker, take out drawer of smoker that has been filled with cotton, spread 1 cup of spirits on cotton, light it and put drawer back in smoker. It will burn for about 20 minutes, let it cool and open smoker.

Curing is a way of preserving, using salt, pepper, sugar, juniper berry. See recipe under recipes section.

Heat oven to 180 ^oC, blend 50g butter, 50g plain flour, 50g oats, 50g brown sugar in blender until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add 200g unroasted walnuts and pulse roughly to combine. Spread crumbs in baking sheet and bake until golden. Goes well with salads and desserts.

It consist of egg white, casting sugar, glucose and gelatin.

Watermelon is such a versatile fruit, it can be used in salads, sandwiches, soups. But please don't throw the rind away, you can use it to make Candy Watermelon Rind. Have a look at my recipe. Goes well with cheeses.

In a small bowl, combine 1/3 cup mayonnaise with 2 tsp wasabi powder. Amazing with smoked salmon sandwich, cured salmon or sushi.

Olive crumble, amazing with seafood, salads and pastas. Heat oven to 140 ^oC. Dry pitted olives in oven for 1½ hours, let cool and then crumble.

Best way to eat fresh oysters is with coarse black pepper, tobasco sauce, lemon wedges and pickled red onion.

Season steak with salt and pepper and marinate in olive oil and garlic, seal steak in both sides in hot pan, put in oven pan, pour over beef jus, finish off in oven.

Best way to cook kabeljou: Take about 200g kabeljou fillet with skin on and all bones removed, score the skin of fish and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil till piping hot in pan, tilt pan and lay down skin side down in warm oil and cook for a couple of minutes. Turn fish over and put in preheated oven at 160 ^oC till cooked for around 8 minutes.

Made from cut pork, pork fat, seasoned with garlic, smoked paprika and salt. I created a chorizo crumble with steamed halve mussels and calamari tenticals. See under recipes.

Is made from dairy milk or cream ,egg yolk, sugar with different flavour options like cinnamon-honey. Its actually a type of frozen custard I used to make for the kids. Rooibos tea french toast with strawberries and cinnamon-honey ice cream  Busy working on a cinnamon-honey ice cream served with cocktail candied apple. Watch this space.

Is a frozen dessert made from sugar-sweetened water with flavouring - typically fruit juice, fruit puree, wine, liqueur and honey. Mango sorbet is my favourite. See recipe section.

Consist of gelatine, cream, pistachio nuts. I have created a paprika goat cheese and sugared almond nougat. Recipewill be loaded at a later stage.

Is made from sugar and water and normally peanuts, but I make fennel brittle with my cheeses and sesame seed brittle with my cured salmon.