2015
November 24
A week ago
on reading a restaurant review, my eyes fell on ‘whitebait’. I was
hooked! Years ago I’ve had whitebait in the Cape Harbour at Panama
Jacks. They were small, crispy and golden.
But then they remove it
from the menu. Mythos, Montecasino (where Cocobongo used to be) is Greek
and has Whitebait. Although, technically it’s more the size of
sardines. But it was crispy, golden and just utterly delicious!
If you are
in Cape Town or Joburg and haven’t used an Uber car yet ... do so. No
more hiring a car, having to find parking, going to a party and feel you can’t
drink cause you’ve still got to drive ... It’s cheaper than renting a
car. The cars are new or almost new, drivers are rated on performance and
you only wait a few minutes for a pick-up.
A weekend
in the bush is always fantastic. Even more so when our friends were on a
game drive ... Hein and I stayed at the house and made a big fire. All of
a sudden I heard these cracking noises ... loud and close. Elephants a
mere 30 – 40 metres away from us! A few big ones and 3 ‘teenagers’.
They were peacefully munching on the leaves. What a sight.
Marmite
snacks ... I don’t even like Marmite ... prefer Bovril. But my friend Ina
gave me some Marmite crisps and wow, they were amazing!!! I also found
Marmite rice cakes ... so so. Marmite breadsticks are really amazing
too!!!! I found mine at Hillfox Food Lover’s Market.
Do you
complain about bad service in a restaurant? Last week we visited Vicky
Christinas on the Promenade Camps Bay. It started out fantastic.
They have pressed ceilings, pictures of Hollywood actresses with cleavages and
a few ‘six packs’ and the Manager was really good. The sea view and
sunset was spectacular! Hein ordered a Boston Lager beer and really liked
it. Ordering the second beer ... sorry, but the keg is empty. It
can only be reconnected the next day. Our friend Lana recommended the
ribs. She actually ordered 2 main portions (one for a take-away) and we
ordered a starter plate of ribs. After 20 minutes of ordering the ribs,
the waiter came back ... sorry but we’re out of ribs. (???!!!) One
of our tapas plates were baby potatoes with cheese and bacon. The waiter
told us .. sorry, we don’t have any baby potatoes. Now this
restaurant is very close to a Pick ‘n Pay. But noooooooo .... they cannot
do that!
So we paid
for the drinks and walked down the street ... luckily the Greek restaurant
Mezepoli had a table. (https://www.mezepoli.co.za/)
Service was extremely good, the kitchen was well
organised (our table was close to the kitchen) and the food ... smackingly
good. Especially the calamari tubes filled with feta cheese.
In my study there’s a smallish Mellerware Biltong King. But we use
it mostly to make ‘droëwors’. I just take any boerewors (not pork or
chicken), brush white vinegar all around the sausages and hang them. It
takes about 3 – 4 days.
Even ostrich sausage works well.
This
weekend I soaked a packet of normal ‘boerewors’ overnight in red wine, thinking
we’ll put it on the braai.
But there were already too much sausages, so I
took it home. And it’s now in our Biltong King. So my study smells
like red wine. We’ll see what the end product looks like.
Till next year ... keep well.
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