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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Pete Goffe-Wood launches his new book, "A Life Digested"

Pete has finally put pen to paper to describe his life so far, but this is also an achievable cook book which will encourage many of you to get involved. To quote Michel Roux in his foreword “It leads you on a culinary voyage of the chef’s repertoire, mingled with little anecdotes of life-changing moments, morsels of time that have made Pete who he is, a chef and a gastronome.” We were invited to the launch this week and drank some specially flown in Pilsner Urquell beer, some great Nederburg Sauvignon Blanc The Airhawk and ate lots of things from Pete’s Kitchen Cowboys market stall, erected in the courtyard – small hamburgers, his famous beef sandwiches and some pork belly sandwiches. It was great fun and very social. The books are available from all good booksellers in time for Christmas.

Copies could be bought for R350

and Pete signed them

Dr Johan Nel and Razvan Macici of Nederburg with their copies

A lot of wine to drink. Nederburg's "The Brew Master" red blend

The kitchen, where all the food for the book was prepared and styled for photography

Good retailers of the book

Chef David Winton gets the food ready with the Kitchen Cowboys team

Prepping

Chef Dave putting the belly of pork into the rolls

The line up of Kitchen Cowboy rolls

The menu

Good Hope FM anchor Guy McDonald sampling a steak roll

The party was held in Pete’s premises in Woodstock

Johan Fourie, GM of Doolhof wine estate with Reinette Geldenhuis

Pete introduced by Craig Fraser, who took the book's photographs

Talking about producing the book

and telling us about the recipes

as usual, to some amusement

Craig Ray and his wife Kim Maxwell; both journalists, but in very different fields - Sport and Food & Wine

Journalist Jeanri-Tine van Zyl with Nederburg Cellarmaster Razvan

Pete’s wife, the lovely Elize

Nice to see Tamsin Snyman

Pete still telling us anecdotes

Tamsin with Lidia Nobrega of Chapman’s Peak Hotel and wine shop

Pete with Elize

The bar staff

Edmore, Razvan and Ramzy, all of Nederburg

Marlene van der Westhuizen and Lynne in conversation

Nikki Werner and Brandon de Kock, authors of the newly published "Cook Better" with Elize Goffe Wood

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Thelema's Boland Braai

Rabelais is Thelema’s top Cabernet based blend and last week, at their Annual Boland Braai for the trade, Gyles Webb took us through a tasting of four vintages, starting with the 2010 and working back through to 2007. The first three all have an element of Petit Verdot whilst the oldest just has 20% Merlot. All were superb, but the oldest one was the real block buster. If you have any, we suggest you serve it with Christmas dinner. The 2007 does have the classic Thelema ‘mint’ from the eucalyptus trees on the property, which adds another dimension to the wine. The newer vintages’ Cabernet is from a vineyard higher up the mountain, which does not have the eucalyptus influence, so they show purer cassis fruit.

We love going to this very relaxed event held from late afternoon on the farm. This year, his viticulturalist Werner Schultz braaied some excellent boerewors. All the Sutherland and Thelema wines are available for tasting and this year and there were many people we know so it became a real party. Thank you, Webb family.

Gyles Webb and Lynne sharing a joke

Gyles presenting the four Rabelais vintages

Michele van Eeden arranged the event and poured the wines. Chef Christophe Dehosse from Joostenberg is in the background

There were some new generation wine family members present! This is Michele’s husband, Frans van Eeden and their son, Eben. Buffet table behind them

Thomas Webb was doing a sterling job pouring tastes of the complete range of the Sutherland and Thelema wines to the large gathering of wine people

Another relaxed party on the lawn with lots of children having fun. Next year they might have to get a jumping castle

Lots of room to play

and master braaier, viticulturalist Werner Schultz getting the braai fire going

Frans van Eeden gets the sausage on

Christian Eedes with Thomas Webb

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New Kauai store opens at the V&A Waterfront

It is not often that we get invited to shop openings, so it was with interest that we went to the opening in the V&A Waterfront of the 150^th Kauai shop. They have moved from inside the Victoria Wharf complex to the old Union Castle building, outside next to the big wheel. We arrived on time, but the staff were concentrating on laying out the food for rather a long time before they noticed that many of their guests were there. They held a competition, with some celebrities making the best tasting or the most nutritious smoothie. We drank some carrot juice and tried some classic Bircher Muesli, and really enjoyed the fruit and nuts with plain thick Greek yogurt which, they told us, they import.

Arriving on time