Caxton Magazines
Time to take a dip
These highly flavoured dips go perfectly with bread and crisps, and they're quick to make, writes David Basckin.
Know your cattle: Afrikaner, the no-nonsense breed
The Afrikaner has good depth and muscular loins, rump, back and thighs. However, it has a fairly shallow body.
Roses from the Karoo
Shortly after Lyell van Rensburg settled on the 3 000ha farm Rietvlei near Graaff-Reinet in the 1980s, Grootfontein Agricultural College recommended she produce aloes instead of roses. She wasn’t convinced. Armed with a degree in biochemistry and genetics, she overcame myriad challenges to transform Rietvlei Roses into an award-winning cut-rose enterprise.
Traceability of food vital
Red meat producers must get their house in order before new consumer legislation comes into effect on 1 April.
Countdown to Consumer Act
The vice-chair of the National Consumer Forum has cautioned red meat producers that the new National Consumer Act will be effective from 1 April.
Pasta for breakfast!
Egg an pasta breakfast for two.
A feast of colour and flavour
Lamb knuckle casserole with white beans and yellow sweet potato mash.
A veld braai for one
While there is only one human activity more social than eating together, solo meals are part and parcel of the veld experience. Whether camping, hunting or fishing a person needs the pleasure of a good meal, easy to cook and a joy to eat.
Delicious fish and chips!
When it comes to ingredient lists, they just don't get any simpler than this.
A spicy curry for a hot summer
Jhinga curry with basmati rice.
Famed Filipino flavour
Yes, it's true. This meal outranks the chicken made by the Colonel, whoever he may be. For South Africans like us, the taste gives a whole new meaning to chicken.
True Tabasckin twang
Louisiana po'boy: Another take on hand-held food.
Melt-in-your-mouth mousse
Addictive chocolate mousse with coffee and real vanilla.
Feedlotting cattle
Most cattle marketed through abattoirs in South Africa come from feedlots, where they are fattened in pens or large paddocks.
Spinach & butternut lasagne
Look Ma, no meat! Lasagne is just one of the fine dishes immediately available to the beginner cook. In this case we combine roasted butternut with fresh spinach and herbs, smothered - but not overwhelmed - by a bechamel sauce.
Pecan nut profits
Do the sum for yourself. Take one mature pecan nut tree of eight years old, producing an average of 20kg/year pecans nut at the unshelled price of R25/kg. Multiply this by a few thousand trees and the desktop millions start flowing, writes Heather Dugmore.
Mozambican exports put pressure on local prices
A growing Mozambican banana industry will put pressure on local banana prices in 2011. This will be a turnaround for South Africa's banana production industry, which saw good prices in 2010 due to a crop that was 12% down on 2009's national yield.
Marketing will be the key to better profits
Hunter prices have marginally increased in the past five years and are unlikely to increase much at this stage, said Arthur Rudman, an Eastern Cape representative of Wildlife Ranching SA and the Professional Hunters' Association of SA.
