20 August 2010

Greetings all,

We hope you are well and have been eating some good food...if you have, please tell us so that we can check it out!

I know we always say it, but it has been an exceptionally busy week for us! New products, new staff, new clients and a lot of running around!

New staff

A big Oded's Kitchen welcome to Yolande - who has just become a permanent member of staff. Yolande has been working markets for us for about 6 months and has recently been appointed as our full time sales rep. She will be responsible for CT and Stellenbosch clients and will be helping us to deliver (as always) an exceptional level of service. We wish her the best of luck and hope that she goes from strength to strength.

We are currently hiring new staff for markets - now that spring is upon us, markets are popping up all over the place and we want to get Oded's Kitchen all over the Western Cape...so if you know of a new market, please let us know so that we can check it out or if you are looking for a job, follow this link: http://odeds-kitchen.blogspot.com/2010/08/job-offer-manage-stand-at-food-market.html

New products

Puddings - we have expanded the range of puddings. The all come in our 100ml glass containers which not only look great, but also means that you can pop the lid back on and put it in the fridge if you don't get through the whole pudding in one sitting...although you will probably want to!

The range now includes: crème brulee, crème caramel, chocolate chilli, chocolate rosemary, Rooibos panecotta, coffee panecotta and gooseberry fool. The full range is stocked in the shop, but we only take a selection to the various markets - to avoid any disappointment, mail us (info@odeds-kitchen.co.za) with your request and we will ensure that we bring it to market that you will be at.

Pates - based on the success of the venison, chicken liver and country pate we have expanded the range. We now do a smoked snoek pate (with a little touch of chilli) - selling incredibly well and we only made it yesterday - hopefully we will have some left to take to the market tomorrow! The second pate is a chicken pate - not to be confused with our smooth chicken liver - and made from free range chicken. It was made on Wednesday and will be ready for market tomorrow - some pates need a couple of days to sit and mellow before we can sell them.

Preserves - sweet pickled beetroot - we got some amazing organic beetroot the other day and while I stole some to make my granny's beetroot soup, we turned the rest into the sweet pickle - great on its own or as a condiment for meats.

Rudi’s Sausages – we stock a range of gourmet sausages made by the team at Rudi’s. In a word, they are awesome! We first discovered them at the markets and started off swapping a jar of onion marmalade for a pack of sausages. When we set up the shop they became our first supplier. If you are planning on a braai this weekend (or at any stage) come check out their range at the shop.

Catering & Cooking classes for Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur

The Jewish holidays are almost upon us and we are again going to be catering for them.

Please follow the two links below for more details:

Catering: http://odeds-kitchen.blogspot.com/2010/08/jewish-festival-catering.html

Cooking Class: http://odeds-kitchen.blogspot.com/2010/08/cooking-classes-in-august.html

Markets

This weekend we will be at the following markets: (all market times are 9am to 2pm unless otherwise stated)

Biscuit Mill – at the shop we will always have the largest range. We will also be trying out a couple of new products, so even if you came last weekend, there will be something new and very delicious in store.

Stellenbosch – no excuses for not giving this market a visit. Quality-wise it rivals the Biscuit Mill, experience-wise I think it surpasses the Biscuit Mill. The type of market you can go to with your baby or dog and not feel claustrophobic. Food is the main thrust of the market, but there is also a very nice craft and décor section.

Earth Fair Market – one of CT’s hidden gems...a great array of food and they have a fantastic bar that serves only organic wines and micro-brewery beer. It’s indoors as opposed to some of the other markets in the area so is always open. It’s also CT’s only weekly night market (Wed 3pm to 8pm)

BITS & BOBS

Fruit on your tree and don’t know what to do with it? We will happily take it off your hands and exchange it for finished products if we can use it.

Empty jars? Bring them back to the shop for a discount on your next purchase. We are trying very hard to do as little harm to the environment as a result of doing business and this is one way you can help us.

Recipe

Spicy Mohammrah Chicken

This is a dish that I cooked last week and was so delish, that I thought I had to let you know

Ingredients:

6 x Chicken breast

4 Teaspoons of our spicy Mohammrah

4 Teaspoons of coconut milk/cream

1 Onion

150g Mushrooms

Dead easy this one – simply dollop the mohammrah and coconut milk on your chicken breasts and pop into a casserole dish. Cover with tinfoil and pop into the oven for 30 mins at 180. With 10 minutes to go, fry up the onion and mushrooms and then add to the casserole dish (after the 30 mins) and then take the foil off and bake for a further 10 mins.

It’s really that easy! And the next day makes a great chicken mayo sandwich – obviously using Oded’s Kitchen Free Range Egg Mayo or the healthier Baonnaise (mayo made from the fruit of the baobab tree and containing no eggs).

That’s all for now, hope to see you at a market or the shop. If you have any comments or suggestions, products that you would like to see on the shelves, please just pop us a mail. But for now, eat, drink and be merry...

Oded, Lewis and the rest of the team at Oded’s Kitchen