Summer holidays Mid summer and the year end holidays are here. We are happy to have had an increase in visitors this year and over the last few weeks a number of international tourists have enjoyed their African Relish experience with a meal at The Chef’s Café, a Foodie Tour and cooking class or stay ...
The Cooking School Chef Hendry continues to host an array of cooking classes. Visiting chefs include Mynhardt Joubert, Recipes for Love and Murder 20 – 23 May Nina Timm, A Feast of Winter Comforts 5 – 7 August Gordon Wright – a weekend of Karoo Food July 8 – 10 Loubie Rusch: The Edible Landscape 14 ...
African Relish gets festive in the Karoo. It is soon time for the school holidays and festive celebrations or even a wedding for the summer. Our foodie haven has the following offerings to tempt you. Gifts The deli has three gift bag options – our cloth tote bag filled with a bottle of red wine, ...
A cooking school should publish a cookbook. It seems an obvious thing, so we did. It’s been a cherished dream of ours to publish a book since we welcomed the first guests into the African Relish Kitchen in early 2009. The plum has never been quite ripe though. It sort of took a back seat ...
On Saturday 23 June, Dr Sue Dean and three African Relish guests ventured up the Gordon Koppie to forage and explore what the veld had to offer. Canadian Marie-Louise and Joburg based friends Mary and Jonathan enjoyed their morning sourcing material for their cooking class with resident chef Camilla Comins. Plants on the Koppie They had a ...
African Relish hosted an Easter cooking weekend with Karen Dudley in our Karoo kitchen. Good Friday Friday afternoon after a lovely lunch cooked by Camilla and her team, dinner preparation started in full swing. Karen demonstrated how to debone and marinade legs of lamb for Saturday dinner. Friday dinner started with a duck salad. ...
Reflecting and looking forward. In amongst the hustle and bustle of the cooking school and restaurant over the summer holidays and busy new year we still managed to reflect on the last year. To remind ourselves of our Karoo culinary adventure we started almost ten years ago and what it means to us. A celebration ...
From Soil to Plate A truly magical time of the year is upon us. As the season changes, it’s out with the old and in with the new. And in the spirit of new beginnings, we’ve added 12 new boxes to our ever growing vegetable garden. The new additions to our family are peas, beetroot, kohlrabi, broad-beans, ...
Emerald Isle visitors to African Relish We recently welcomed two guests from Ireland at African Relish. It was wonderful to show them a true, heart warming summer Karoo welcome. A Karoo Culinary Experience After a wholesome breakfast the day begins with a tour of Prince Albert town. This included a cheese tasting at Gay’s dairy , an ...
Keeping it local. As a chef I am really privileged to be able to work with high quality local produce that’s on my doorstep, or at the most a phone call away. Anything from organic venison to full fat Guernsey dairy. Gay’s Dairy is a local gem that recently gave birth to ‘The Meat Room’ where I buy my ...
