Pork fillet in beer
This superb homage to the pig is a luxurious meal, easy to cook and quick too, assuming that you have some quality chicken stock in the freezer. If not, I’ve...
A new lease of life for farm rondavels
Approximately seven years ago, I designed a home for Pete and his family on a golf estate.
Farm special: Beetroot cake
Baking, as I’ve mentioned before, is a dark zone of potential failure and damaged emotions. But sometimes, there is light at the end of the oven. Here is a totally...
Pasta, pesto & roasted tomatoes
Nowhere does it say that you have to have spaghetti with bolognaise sauce. And to prove it, here’s a combination of great flavours, textures and aromas all designed to transform...
Revving up vanilla ice cream
While there are some folk, this backwoods cook amongst them, who regard plain vanilla ice cream as an eternal miracle of fine dining, other more sophisticated diners have requested a...
Hake & pan-wilted greens
Here’s a way to rev up frozen hake. Playing anything but second fiddle to the fish is a crunchy assortment of slightly unusual green vegetables.
A home in which to retire
Dear Jonno I recently purchased an 8ha smallholding on which I plan to grow macadamias. The building on the property is not worth repairing, so...
Roast pork with white wine
Pork, red meat’s poor relation, makes a roast of multidimensional complexity if treated right. Thanks to crisp crackling with a moist interior, this roast adds its own special blessing to...
Lamb curry with dates, cream cheese and sweet potato
This magnificent invention can also be called curry without rice. A splendid combination of traditional Cape and KZN cooking, it provides both cook and diners with a powerful set of...
Roofs to the rescue
Dear Jonno One of my employees, a widow, owns a shack in the township, and is in the process of building herself a better home. She...
Steak pie
Never judge a book by its cover, or a pie by its pastry. You never know what delicacies lie hidden beneath the dish’s crispy exterior. If it’s succulent texture and...
Crusted chicken breasts with lemon butter sauce
This requires only a few simple ingredients and can be prepared quickly. But it tastes absolutely marvellous. What’s more, it goes with nearly any vegetable or salad you desire.
A cottage among the acacia trees
Mark, a previous client of mine who owns a game farm in Limpopo, visited my studio on his way to the KZN coast.
The ultimate steak sandwich
There’s nothing mysterious about a piece of cold meat between two slices of bread. But here we take the basic sandwich invention and thrust it right into the middle of...
A camping site in Botswana
Dear Jonno I stumbled across your fascinating plans in a Farmer’s Weekly magazine, and would like you to help me with a design. I acquired...
Bucatini Amatriciana: your next pasta classic
There’s a whole lot of gustatory novelty in this splendid collection of ingredients. From pancetta to chilli, to the pasta itself, this menu item for your personal collection is excitingly...
Mussels in beer
Raw mussels, straight off the rocks, were a staple of the strandlopers, indigenous South Africans from long ago. For those of us far from the strand, the nation’s supermarkets provide...
Self-catering accommodation for hunters
Recently, two game farm owners – from Limpopo and Mpumalanga respectively – asked me to design two-bedroom, self-catering accommodation units for hunters and off-season visitors to their farms.
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