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Newsletter 18: Aug / Sep 2010 |
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| Handy tips on Cooking and Entertaining: |
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Pour some sugar on it : Scented sugar adds a subtle perfume and flavour to coffee, fruit desserts, and baked goods. You will need to layer sugar with aromatic items like rose petals, dried orange and lemon peel, or even vanilla beans. Let the mixture rest for a few days in tightly sealed jars while the scents infuse the sugar.
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Flower-light: Flowers and candlelight is a match made in heaven when it come to dinner parties and entertaining, but paired together they create tabletop decorations fit for relaxed summer entertaining. Place tea light candles in tall glass containers, and attach a flower to the outside of each, using colour co-ordinated raffia to keep the flower in place. Set each vessel in a saucer of water to keep the flowers fresh.
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| Facts About Spices : Cinnamon |
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Interestingly, cinnamon was one of the first spices to be used in the Mediterranean. Cinnamon has a myriad of uses. Not merely a staple of sweet pastry, it blends into savoury dishes as well. Sticks can perfume rice or curry exquisitely and are essential in classic chai or mulled wine. True cinnamon exudes a delicate floral aroma, with sweetness and pepper-like heat. It is best infused gently to release essential oils and preserve the aromatic flavour. |
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| New Articles: Top 5 kitchen Utensils that you can’t live without |
Besides the bare essentials like pots, pans and wooden spoons etc. what other kitchen utensils can you not live without? The team at South African Foodies have put their thinking caps on once again to come up with a list of utensils that bring the proverbial tears of joy to the eyes of many a cook. We were looking for items that save time and items that miraculously transform menial, possibly challenging tasks into a fun and easy culinary experience. ..............
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Recipe to try:Banana Bread
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| This easy banana bread recipe contains ingredients that you will more than likely have in your cupboard already – perfect for those times when you’re expecting visitors to pop in but have got nothing in the house except from overripe bananas. What’s more, a piece of moist and delicious banana bread is irresistible to most! |
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INGREDIENTS
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
- Add bananas and vanilla and fold in dry ingredients.
- Bake in a greased loaf tin for 45 minutes.
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METHOD
- 125g butter or margarine
- 1 cup castor sugar (white or brown sugar is okay though)
- 2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 3 large bananas, mashed
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
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| Food Q & A |
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Where is the best place to insert a meat thermometer that accurately reads the temperature of the meat? |
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Do not go too shallow, you need to find the core temperature not the radiant temperature, so insert the thermometer deep into the thickest part of the meat, without touching the bone as bones retain more heat than the meat itself and this could result in an incorrect reading.
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| Up and Coming Events |
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- Hermanus Wine & Food Fair
- NRL Wines Trade Show
- FAMSA Outeniqua Chocolate Festival
- Gastronomica
- The Locust Festival
- Mad Hatters High Tea
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