This hearty beef & mushroom ragu is a tribute to Alvi’s Drift Albertus Viljoen Bismarck 2020 from their Icon Range – a Shiraz driven red blend that also contains Pinotage, …
Beef & mushroom ragu with tagliatelle


This hearty beef & mushroom ragu is a tribute to Alvi’s Drift Albertus Viljoen Bismarck 2020 from their Icon Range – a Shiraz driven red blend that also contains Pinotage, …

As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve teamed up with La Motte Bakery to create new takes on a series of iconic South African street food dishes using their …

I’ve teamed up with La Motte Bakery to create new takes on a series of iconic South African street food dishes using their beautiful, unique loaves. The Cape is known …

Winter is the season for slowing down. To me, this means taking more time to slow-roast your favourite larger cut of meat to fall-apart perfection, creating a feast of smells …

I’ve recently teamed up with Radford Dale for an Easter-inspired lamb roast, paired with one of their Pinotages. With a notorious wine like the Radford Dale Frankenstein Pinotage, we’ve opted …

While we’re settling into a new year with January almost done and dusted, there’s always room for extending your midweek recipe repertoire. Pork mince is such an economical and versatile …

This festive season, I’m taking a fresh look at “rys, vleis & aartappels” with this colourful feast – familiar in its parts, but with oodles of punchy Asian flavours like …

As the earliest signs of Spring are rearing their fragrant heads around me, I start longing for the comfort of cold and room temperature picnic food. This super easy coronation …

This easy recipe is from my first book, Cape Mediterranean, published in 2019 by Penguin Random House. I’ve made it too many times to count – sometimes substituting the brandy …

This kind of soft-and-saucy food is the stuff my midweek dinner dreams are made of, and one of the most popular Autumnal recipes from my second book Simply Seasonal. I …