Food

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Freshly Blogged

For those of you who do not know I have entered the PicknPay, Freshly Blogged competition. PicknPay and Fresh Living magazine, in association with Knorr and Spekko, have invited South Africa’s top food bloggers to blog their way to stardom, win incredible prizes and have the chance of seeing their recipes featured in Fresh Living Magazine!

Each week we, the bloggers, receive a new culinary challenge, which contains a list of ingredients and a few specifications. The challenge is to create a delicious recipe, cook, photograph and post the recipe on the Freshly Blogged Website. This is where you come in, you need to check out the fab recipes and vote for your favourite {which is hopefully mine ;)} There are weekly prizes up for grabs for both bloggers and you the public!

You can vote every week – simply click on the recipe and click the green “Vote for this recipe” button at the top of the page to participate. Plus, you could WIN one of the weekly voter prizes.

I will also be featuring my recipes on my foodie website “a beautiful life”.

Food

Lindt Launches New Creation Range

One of the perks of being a blogger is the great goodies you receive to try out or sample! I recently received a wonderful delivery, courtesy of Lindt Chocolate. This was in celebration, of the unveiling of their new CREATION 100g tablet range, which are available in stores from June 2013.

Not only did I receive the four new chocolate tablets, which include: Divine Hazelnut 100g, Velvety Vanilla Almond 100g, Heavenly Crème Brûlée 100g and Sumptuous Orange 100g, along with these, was a beautifully presented selection of mini taste-experiences, of each of the new flavours!

Each CREATION has its own irresistibly indulgent soft centre filling, combined with the finest LINDT chocolate, delicately crafted by the LINDT Master Chocolatiers.

Each soft centre recipe has been carefully and uniquely crafted to satisfy even the most indulgent of cravings:
• The LINDT CREATION Divine Hazelnut 100g has been made with the finest crisp hazelnut pieces, whipped into a moreish praline and enrobed in a layer of smooth LINDT milk chocolate.
• The LINDT CREATION Velvety Vanilla Almond 100g has the finest vanilla flavoured truffle, accentuated with crunchy almond pieces, layered with delicious caramel and wrapped in an LINDT milk chocolate.
• The LINDT CREATION Heavenly Crème Brûlée 100g is delicately creamy with contrasting crunchy, caramelised pieces at the heart of each block, which is surrounded by the finest LINDT milk chocolate.
• The LINDT CREATION Sumptuous Orange 100g perfectly marries sweet orange with LINDT sumptuous dark chocolate, the orange perfectly complimenting the richness of the chocolate with bursts of tangy goodness.

My favourite flavour would have to be Sumptous Orange, I love dark chocolate, especially when it is combined with orange, so this is a real winner for me! I had to fight off the hoards when it came to the rest of the flavours but I am happy to say that they were all quickly devoured!

Available in most retail stores from June 2013.

LINDT CREATION Divine Hazelnut 100g – Retailing from R24.99
LINDT CREATION Velvety Vanilla Almond 100g– Retailing from R24.99
LINDT CREATION Heavenly Crème Brûlée 100g– Retailing from R24.99
LINDT CREATION Sumptuous Orange 100g– Retailing from R24.99

30 Day Photo Challenge, FAR Photography, Food

Photo A Day Morning Ritual

Photo A Day – Day 2 Morning Ritual! I am so not a morning person, so before anything else gets done, coffee is my TOP priority! 🙂

To follow My Photo A Day progress or join the fun on Instagram or Twitter just search for the #FMSphotoaday hashtag to see them all.

Be Inspired, Food, Kids Food, My Top, Recipes

My Top Weekday Recipes

I have put together a list of my go-to, simple to make weekday recipes. These recipes are easy but so delicious and definite family favourites.

TASTE OF CAPE TOWN 2013

~TASTE OF CAPE TOWN A CARNIVAL OF POP-UPS, BREWS, CULINARY HEIRLOOMS AND REBEL CHEFS~

I am super excited about attending the Taste of Cape Town next month so I thought I would let you know what to expect from this gastronomic event.

The Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town is held in association with Orbit Sugarfree Chewing Gum and is heralded as the region’s most celebrated carnival of the senses will run from 11 to 14 April 2013, at the Green Point Cricket Club.

What Can You Expect at the Event?

XO, sea cucumber, sea truffle, kimchi, miso and tom yum butter. Snotvis, tataki and a lucky star pie: the exotic and the indigenous, the trendy and the traditional will all be popping up at Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town, along with rock star chefs and their dedicated followers, micro brewers and chocolatiers.

This year festival goers will also have a modern guide, the new Taste app for smart phones, so they can traipse between flavour hot spots dotted around the foodie playground without missing a beat.

“Part of the collection of Taste Festivals taking place in 18 world cities, the Cape leg of the international celebrations will once again enthral food lovers, flavour hunters and the city’s social set with its unique format of part-party, part trend-spotting, part gourmet-shopping and full-on feasting,” says Justine Drake, festival-organiser.

Drake also foresees that the pop-up restaurant concept added to the festival last year will have foodies in awe. “It brings with it a very adventurous way to enjoy the diversity of tastes Cape Town is known for.” Taste-hunters can try dishes as diverse as champagne poached oysters and seafood bredies, a dish named ‘Message in a Bottle’ and miso glazed short rib with fresh kimchi. The pop-up dining experience brings rebel with a food cause Bruce Robertson of The Boathouse, Luke Dale-Roberts of The Test Kitchen/The Pot Luck Club, La Colombe with Scot Kirton and Tanja Kruger of Makaron Restaurant at Majeka house.

In addition to the pop-ups, the eleven restaurants chosen to represent the spectrum of tastes of the Mother City dish up their signature creations in started sized bites. The Restaurants include: Henrico Grobbelaar of The Twelve Apostle’s Azure Restaurant, Natasha Wray of 96 Winery Road. De Grendel Restaurant debuts at the festival with Ian Bergh, Shaun Schoeman of Fyndraai Restaurant on Solms-Delta, Signal Restaurant at Cape Grace with Malika Van Reenen, Sanel Esterhuyse from Savour at 15 on Orange, Jewel of India’s Dayanand Shankar Poojary , Beefcakes Burger Bar, represented by Wonderful Ndhlovu, Il Leone Mastrantonio and Daniel Toledo Dash Restaurant and Bar at the Queen Victoria Hotel with Craig Paterson and Stefan Marais of The Brasserie.

A brand new initiative at the festival – Taste Craft Beer Project – will showcase more than 18 of the country’s best quality craft beer on tap. This collection of micro-breweries will be on hand to quench the thirst for craft beer, with each brew paired with dishes featured at the festival.

“With so much to enjoy, guests simply can’t let go, returning several times over the four days to savour it all,” says Drake.

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