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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Preserving Class - July 2011
- When 17 July (11am - 3pm, depending on cooking time)
- Where Oded's Kitchen (The Old Biscuit Mill, Salt River)
- Cost R450 (50% deposit required to secure your place)
- What Preserving - seasonal marmalade, pickle (gherkin or carrot), preserved lemons and a 3 tomato salsa.
- Spaces 7 people
- Booking lewis@odeds-kitchen.co.za or 021 447 0400
This class is designed for both the preserving beginner and novice. No previous experience is required - even if you have never cooked before. Oded will begin the class with a short lecture on the history of preserving and a tasting of part of Oded's Kitchen's current range of products. Then it's roll up your sleeves and get cooking! You need only bring yourself and comfortable clothing (if you have a favourite knife, please bring it along). A snack lunch will be provided to keep up the spirits, aprons, utensils and all ingredients will also be supplied. And the best part is that you get to take home whatever is made during the class!
Lecture - Wild Ox & Leviathan (Food inspired from the Old Testament)
Date: 26 July
Time: 12 noon
Venue: Astra Coffee Shop - 20 Breda St, CT (link to google maps)
Cost: R100
Wild Ox & Leviathan
A culinary cultural journey through ancient Jewish flavours, history and traditions
Food plays an almost obsessive role in Jewish life. To the Jewish mother it is a controlling tool, to the community it is a way of celebrating and keeping the tradition going; in the Bible (Old Testament) and the Talmud, ingredients, food and detailed description of dishes are used as a potent metaphors and a useful tool for describing laws and boundaries.
Oded Schwartz, a world authority on the history of Jewish food, takes you on a fascinating journey through the Biblical and Talmudic kitchen with its exotic, spicy and deeply symbolic food - our sages not only had a great appetite - they also knew how to cook.
Intrigued by the abundance of references to food – Oded has created a biblical and Talmudic feast. With contemporary understanding he uses facts, fiction and sometimes sheer culinary fantasy to create a meal which, as well as being delicious, tells the story of a fascinating past.
This audio/gastro experience will include dishes like the stew that Abraham served the visiting Angels, the lentil ‘pottage’ which split nations and naughty but nice delicacies which King Solomon might have served his mistress after a long night of passion.
Canapes will be served during the lecture and a question and answer session will follow to answer any questions you may have about the lecture.
To book, please contact: Tarnya on 021 461 8414 or via email (coffeetime@jsec.org.za) or book direct from the shop (Oded's Kitchen at the Old Biscuit Mill - 021 447 0400 lewis@odeds-kitchen.co.za)
For more information about this lecture or the work Oded is doing at Oded's Kitchen, please visit our website - www.odeds-kitchen.co.za
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
What to do with fruit on your tree
Fruit on your tree and don't know what to do with it?
We'll gladly take it off your hands and either pay you for it or turn it into a product and give some of it back to you. We are especially looking for exotic chillis and the type of produce that you can't find too
That's all for now folks, if you are eating some good food, please let us know about it so that we can go and check it out or try it out ourselves!
Part-time Job Offer
We are always looking for food and fun loving people to wo/man a stand a food market. If you think you have what it takes - and all that is, is a love of food and people (and your own car), you can join our team. We pay a good rate and the perks of fantastic...homework is to take a jar of your worst seller home and experiment with it!
Markets - May
We've taken a bit of a break with Oded being out of action, but happy to say that with his return we will be doing as many as we can:
Biscuit Mill - we'll be at the shop from 8:30am to 3:30pm on Saturdays. We always do something special for the Sat market and currently we are doing our Aztec Hot Chocolate (see new product section) and a soup for the cold winter days. We've also expanded our lunch menu and have introduced a breakfast menu - so now you can have breakfast, lunch and take something great home for supper from us!
Earth Fair - Wed (3pm-8pm) & Sat (9am-2pm). Based in the Builder's Warehouse complex in Tokai, this market, while small, is quite an attraction. Some fantastic, artisan producers to be found here and well worth a visit to Tokai. The market is indoors so no problem with weather and there is entertainment for the kids.
Stellenbosch Slow Food - Sat 9am to 2pm. The first market we ever did and one of the best around. It rivals the Biscuit Mill market for quality and volume but pips it (in my humble opinion) as it's dog and child friendly and basically a little more relaxed. From our front door it's only 47km, so no excuse that it's too far away. A fantastic range of producers and very happy to see a few chocolate producers have recently arrived.
St George's Mall - Thurs 11am to 5pm. A brand spanking new market run by the organiser of the St George's Mall market. Aimed to be a European-style market - patrons can enjoy lunch (we do lasagna, chicken koftes and veg mousaka as well as snacks) and stock up on their daily needs for dinner.
Nitida - last Sat of the month 8am-12:30pm. A fantastic farmer's market this one. Some familiar faces, but a nice selection of fresh produce and one off vendor's who will only be found at this market.
We will be doing more markets as the weeks progress - if you know of a market that we are not currently doing, please let us know...if we have never heard of it we will reward you with a jar of something delicious.
New Products (May)
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