Welcomed with a
delicious glass of Muratie’s Lady Alice MCC
poured by winemaker
Francois Conradie
Their langtafel set for
the Cape Malay curry cook off
Organiser and PR guru
Posy Hazell with Muratie owner Rijk Melck who opened the event
Some very funny
looks at the food? No, we are tweeting
about the starter of ‘Smoor Snoek” a traditional fish dish. Norman McFarlane and Angela Lloyd add to their Ipads. Smoor means flaked, so flaked smoked
snoek cooked with potatoes and lemon, on
a bed of rice – very much part of the Cape Malay culture. There were rather a
lot of bones - snoek has them in abundance.
The cooks from Du Toitskloof
tell us about their curry, which was served first
Sweet and sour curried
lamb shanks with a pineapple sambal and a fresh coriander chutney
We drank Muratie
Sauvignon Blanc and DuToitskloof Beaukett with the curries
Kim, Rjik Melck’s wife
cooked their curry
More wine needs to be
opened and poured
The other Muratie wine
we drank was the Laurens Campher white blend of Chenin blanc, Sauvignon blanc,
Verdelho and Viognier
Muratie’s entry – a very
succulent warm lamb shank curry served with a banana and yogurt sambal and a
fresh red onion chutney with a roti bread
Posy Hazell counts the
votes
And Kim Melck of Muratie
accepts her prize
Benny Masekwameng, Judge on SA Masterchef, gave us his spin on the curries
One of the Melcks’
lovely dogs takes up residence in the cellar, when it is occupied by his family
Preserved figs and fresh
strawberries to accompany the cheese board at the end of the meal
Gooey chocolate brownies
to go with coffee
A selection of cheeses
A view of the charming
Muratie cellar with resident lazing hound
The road home was not at
all pleasant as you can see - one of our famous Cape storms just starting to
hit as we left the farm outside Stellenbosch
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2013
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