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Funky Ouma x Retro Karoo Food Competition
Funky Ouma x Retro Karoo Food Competition
Transform your next braai with a hamper worth R895, featuring a copy of Retro Karoo Food (R420) and a Funky Ouma Travel Adventure Cooking Box valued at R475.
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Featured Recipes
Eid Menu from 'The Journey'
Eid Menu from 'The Journey'
Recipes from 'Freestyle Cooking with Chef Ollie'
Recipes from 'Freestyle Cooking with Chef Ollie'
Pie Recipe Collection
Pie Recipe Collection
Pi Day (14 March) is the perfect excuse to celebrate one of the world’s most comforting foods: pie. Whether you prefer something hearty, cheesy or packed with bold flavour, there’s a pie for every mood and table. From Adele Maartens’s rich Three-cheese Mushroom Pie to the Delish Sisters’ flavourful Turkish Chicken Pies, these recipes prove that a golden crust can hold endless delicious possibilities.
Plant-based Recipe Collection
Plant-based Recipe Collection
Plant-based cuisine is bursting with creativity, colour, and flavour, proving that vegetarian meals can be just as exciting as any meat dish. From bold Indo-Chinese paneer twists to smoky braaied cauliflower steaks, and from vibrant crystal spring rolls to crispy Brussels sprouts on silken tofu, these recipes show how inventive plant-based cooking can be.
Paprika 'Hasselback' Potatoes
Paprika 'Hasselback' Potatoes
In Upwards, Karen Dudley invites us on a culinary journey that transcends the ordinary, encouraging us to look up to what is true and essential – living simply and well. In this follow-up to Onwards, Karen, with her signature warmth and insight, shares how the act of cooking can – and should be – a letting go of life’s daily preoccupations, a way to connect with ourselves and others, by paying attention to the pleasure and enjoyment of cooking something beautiful, delicious and even surprising. Sharing recipes from a vibrant palette of flavours, Upwards lifts Karen’s loyal community towards the next level – to learn new skills, to look up to quality over quantity and to pay attention to the splendour that can come from the meditative act of cooking. Upwards is thus a call to be inspired, to create and to connect, all the time looking up, up, up, as we invite into our kitchens new dishes, new flavours and new possibilities.
Milk Tart Day Recipes
Milk Tart Day Recipes
There’s no dessert more proudly South African than milk tart! Whether you love it traditional, with a modern twist, or reimagined in new ways, we’ve got seven irresistible recipes to inspire your next bake. From Amarula-infused indulgence to crispy spring rolls and even a no-churn ice cream, this lineup celebrates the creamy, spiced delight in all its forms. So, grab your whisk, dust off the cinnamon, and get ready to
Tropical Eton Mess
Tropical Eton Mess
Featured Cookbooks
'Simply More Zola'
'Simply More Zola'
South Africa’s culinary darling is back, and she’s taking readers on another delicious adventure in her fourth cookbook, Simply More Zola!
'Retro Karoo Food'
'Retro Karoo Food'
In every part of every old Karoo house are the memories of things thathappened there. Their front doors are portals to the mysteries that liewithin, the lives
'Paradise'
'Paradise'
Food is so much more than just fuel. It’s pleasure. It’s comfort. It’s connection. It’s culture and tradition. It’s celebration.
'Naqiyah: The Journey'
'Naqiyah: The Journey'
As human beings, we are hard-wired for connection. Gathering around a table feeds that need. It's a place where bonds are reaffirmed and where breaking bread together actually breaks down barriers. The most lasting human relationships are formed around the table, rooted by love. The Journey is a celebration of Naqiyah Mayat's efforts to preserve the art of Indian cooking while learning her own culinary style. It is indeed a journey of growth, from a personal as well as professional perspective. This collection of both simple and decadent Indian recipes is a mix of nostalgia with a modern twist, showing how the essence of Indian cooking can be transferred across generations (and cultures), with each adding a uniqueness of style, taste and presentation.
'The Big Tasty Bite'
'The Big Tasty Bite'
'Mexico in Mzansi'
'Mexico in Mzansi'
'Daily Glimmers'
'Daily Glimmers'
'Eat Yourself Healthy'
'Eat Yourself Healthy'
Kickstart your good life with Jamie's first healthy-eating cookbook. It's about more not less: more taste, more joy, more energy, more sleep . . . Looking after yourself begins with food. In Eat Yourself Healthy, Jamie’s 120 easy, mouthwatering recipes will energise, satisfy, nourish and revitalise. This is all about what you can have, not what you can’t. Jamie’s healthy eating is joyful, generous and so tasty you’ll keep coming back to it. For the first time, the book will open with a 2-week nutrition-packed meal plan to kickstart your health journey and 50 helpful health hacks ensure that healthy choices are always the easiest choices. This is good food to change your life.
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