Pretoria - August 2020

Wish list
Travel and food and a touch of glam this August
Tapas for real foodies
Tapas with Liam Tomlin is the most
heavenly book imaginable. It’s a
book to drool over, to sit for hours
earmarking recipes and planning gettogethers.
It’s all about the style of
food Liam likes to cook and the way
he likes to eat ... with lots of different
tastes, textures and cooking styles. It’s
crammed with inspiring, exceptionally
styled photos of food you just long to
re-create.
What this isn’t, is a book for scaredy-cat
cooks. Or for those with timid taste
buds. It kicks off fairly safely with potato
and chorizo tortilla, but before long it’s
all braised pig’s head with bacon and
egg, and sautéed frogs’ legs with wild
mushrooms, parsley purée and truffle
dressing. The Basic Recipe section
includes walnut tuile and duck liver
parfait and bao buns, for heaven’s sake.
Delicious? Yes. But basic? Maybe not
so much. You need a certain amount
of skill and dedication – and time – to
follow many of the recipes. Of course
there are loads and loads of dishes that
are less daunting ... the tomato tart
with Parmesan catalan, basil and olives
is time-consuming but delicious; the
pancetta-wrapped prawns with crab
and spring onion risotto is possibly our
favourite recipe from the book.
Liam, an Irish chef who worked in
restaurants around the world before
moving to Cape Town where he’s
opened restaurants including the
original Chefs Warehouse 10 yearsor-so
ago and more recently Chefs
Warehouse Maison in Franschhoek,
describes his way of cooking as
being focused on technique and on
extracting as much flavour as possible
to create tasty and well balanced
dishes. This is the second edition of
his book – the first, self-published,
was only available at his restaurants.
An exceptional buy for a real foodie.
Penguinrandomhouse, R399.
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Vanilla dream
Our new absolute favourite
Château Gâteaux flavour, Vanilla
Dream, is now also available in
the medium size (8-slice). This
means you can pile two (or more)
cakes on top of each other to
achieve a wonderful (and very
on-trend) 'tall' cake. The Vanilla
Dream a moist vanilla torte
layered with a Chantilly cream,
infused with vanilla seeds and
topped with fine white chocolate
shavings. The perfect companion
to a hot cup of tea, a decadent
post-dinner dessert and the
perfect blank canvas for creating
a beautiful celebratory cake.
Details: chateaugateaux.co.za
WIN!
This women’s month we are giving
away two medium size (8-slice) Vanilla Dream
cakes to three very lucky readers! To enter,
follow our social media pages and look out for
the post with the competition rules.
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To find your closest Château Gâteaux
visit: chateaugateaux.co.za