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& Giggles, wine a cooking class! Imagine turning your dining room and kitchen into a beautiful event location for a yearend DIY cocktail party with your closest girlfriends or colleagues. Well, that’s exactly what we did with the help of some awesome local experts! Here’s what went down … Jen adds the finishing touches to the Loaded Hummus Text: Leah Shone 46 Get It • Ballito Umhlanga November 2020
Lots of laughter and fun as everyone takes turns trying their hand at cooking Our host, Roots Cafe & Deli owner Jennifer Swanepoel Wine chilled. Candles lit. Music on. Sounds like the start of a lovely, laidback dinner party, right? Well, that’s exactly what it was … sort of! Instead of coming together to just eat dinner though, the Get It girls were about to learn how to make our own delicious cocktail canapés (all plant-based!) with the help of Roots Café & Deli owner and our host for the evening, Jennifer Swanepoel. To add to the ‘glam’ factor and for a little extra interactive fun, instead of sitting down to a beautifully laid table, we also styled our own stunning cocktail benches with décor supplied by the team from The Creativity Lab. After the first glass of wine – and lots of selfies – the girls settled down and Jen told us a little about herself and what we were going to cook. She split us into three teams – starters, mains and dessert – and the dessert team had to get going first! Aprons were donned and the oven switched on. More wine may have been poured at this point. On the menu for evening? Polenta Bites with Avocado Dip, Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce, Falaffel Balls, Loaded Hummus, a Cream Cheese Ball with Crackers and Pecan and Apple Blondies with Salted Caramel Sauce for dessert! A qualified teacher who has owned her own preschool and worked with children for more than 17 years and a mother of two, Jen actually has no formal chef training. This ended up Homemade Falafel Balls Fresh fruit and vegetables being one of the things we liked most about her! She cooks from the heart and manages to make every dish seem easy and unintimidating … even for the most culinary-challenged among us! Jen loves chatting and she loves people, which is one of the reasons, she says, she always dreamed of owning her own coffee shop. “I love getting to know people, and there really isn’t a better place to do that than around good food. There is something comforting and transparent about conversations that are shared around a meal.” When she opened the doors to Roots Café in Umhlali in November last year, Jen’s vision was to introduce people to delicious food that was both nutritious and free of any animal products. “I wanted to show people that following a plantbased diet doesn’t mean you have to live on lettuce leaves and broccoli!” Located in the beautiful garden setting at Burnedale, Roots Café offers a wide variety of plant-based lunches brekkies, desserts and dairy free smoothies and freshly squeezed juices. They also, apparently, have the best carrot cake ever! November 2020 Get It • Ballito Umhlanga 47
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