Zucchini Restaurant

Gosh! I can't believe it's been so long since my last post! I've been pre-occupied with "stuff" and  haven't had a chance to write a post about anything. At the moment we have visitors from The Netherlands and we're getting around a bit with shopping and sight-seeing.  The past week was spent in the beautiful town of Wilderness on the Garden Route. On the road between Wilderness and Sedgefield is a small "village" of shops and restaurants called Timberlake.

We stopped there for lunch at a fabulous little restaurant called Zucchini.  The food is delicious, service is friendly and the setting is beautiful. Not to mention the décor of the restaurant, which I fell in love with instantly!

From the horse saddles used as seats on the barstools to the beautiful mosaic fire-place; it's all in the detail, and here you'll find lots of little details that makes you just love, Love, LOVE this place (and that's before you've even tried the delicious food)! Make sure to stop here if you're in the area; you won't be sorry!

Happy day!

Salad from the garden!

Please tell me if I bore you with the updates about our veggie garden. It is just such a pleasure to grow our own food, that I am very excited to share the progress with all of you.  We had a garden salad and soufflé for supper last night and it was just so divine to know that most of the food on our plates was home-grown. 

Beautiful parsley, purple basil, lettuces and radish 

Fresh chilli (just for me...hehe), lovely tomatoes and basil

 All the salad ingredients - just enough for the three of us

Organic basil, parsley, spring onion, radish, lettuce (three varieties) tomato and chilli..... Delish!!!!

Happy day!

a good place to gather

a good place to gather is the blog by Jessica who is the former chef of Nook Eatery, which she co-owned and ran with her husband Luke. We got to know them at Nook and were always impressed by this couple's passion for quality, delicious food and eye for detail. I was very happy to see them recently at Kamersvol Geskenke and to have the pleasure of sinking my teeth into one of their home-made, buttery, mouth-watering delicious croissants again. The Captain always insisted that the croissants are the best he's ever had and being a Frenchman, it is a great compliment to the chef; and a well-deserved one too. 

If you never had the pleasure of eating at Nook, well.... too bad. We're secretly hoping they might consider moving back to our part of the "woods".... hehe. Until they do (yeah, I wish!!) I will continue to collect the fabulous recipes she shares with us on a good place to gather. I think you will enjoy it too!

Happy day!

Home-made pasta

There's nothing quite like home-made pasta for good, comfort food. Once you've made your own, you will never want to buy the store-bought dried variety again. Just 500g of plain flour, five large eggs and voilà; fresh pasta like you've never had before. I must admit that I'm quite lucky; The Captain insists that I have all the gadgets in the kitchen, so for this I use my Kenwood Major Titanium with the pasta-maker attachment - makes life so much easier!

For the simplest of meals, we have fresh pasta with lots of butter (the REAL thing), salt, pepper and a fresh green salad on the side. Yummmm!

Happy day!