Chicken and Pineapple Salad

Why don’t you lighten up your table with this wonderful, fruity, and easy to prepare chicken salad this Christmas?
I love the juicy and sweet pineapples so I always go for queen pineapples. You can never go wrong with them. But any other pineapple variety can be used.
As I always say – the recipes are not [...]

Perfect grilled chicken

HOW many times have you ordered grilled chicken and ended up with an undercooked piece that is pink inside on your plate?
The mistake that a lot of people make is grilling the chicken on very high heat. This results in the meat burning quickly on the outside while still raw inside.
It is very important to [...]

Cucumber, tomato & corn salad

Ingredients
 
1 cucumber, washed & diced
3 tomatoes, washed & diced
215g corn, tinned or fresh
½ small onion, finely chopped
10g fresh coriander leaves
1T olive oil
Juice of ½ lemon
Salt & black pepper to taste
 
Method
If using frozen or fresh corn, steam it for a few minutes until soft before using.
Mix all the ingredients, tear the coriander leaves into the salad, [...]

Make a big impression

SUNDAY LUNCH with Ska
If ever you have attended a tertiary institution in South Africa, this 10-day holiday spirit and fever is really a trip down memory lane.
It is symbolic of families re-uniting, distant lovers rekindling romance, endless fun and good food. Why not go a step further and indulge yourself in good desserts that capture [...]

How about a stir-fry?

Yes — How about a stir fry this week? A fabulous, easy-to-make dish that you don’t even have to go shopping to find ingredients.
You can use what you have in your kitchen. This is a dish that nobody can mess up.
With so many beautiful vegetables in season, it would be a sin to produce a [...]

Cooking

 With Ska
 Exotic fruit salad

Ingredients
2 bananas, peeled and sliced
½  paw paw, peeled and cubed
2 guavas, sliced
1 punnet strawberries, halved
1 bunch red grapes
3 kiwis, peeled and sliced
Sugar to sprinkle
Dressing
1/3 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons honey
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
Method
• Mix the dressing ingredients together.
• Arrange the bananas in a fruit salad bowl and pour over some of [...]

Spring food festival

Spread it on toast, slice it onto sandwiches, use it in salads, make salsa, make a dip, soup or eat it as is –– the mighty avocado!
Dip them in cream, dip them in chocolate, make home-made jam, ice cream, milkshake, smoothies, cheese cake –– vibrant red strawberries.
Add it to fruit salad, grill it, pizza, burger, [...]

It’s Spring Time

This week marks the beginning of the spring season.
This is the time when we bring “fabulous” back in food. We start to lighten up on the food we eat and slowly withdraw from the heavy dishes that kept us so nice and warm in winter.
Fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables that were so scarce in winter [...]

Pecan nut cake loaf

300g butter
2cups white sugar
5 eggs
2t vanilla essence
2 cups cake flour
1teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
100g pecan nuts chopped
Icing sugar for dusting
Method
? All the ingredients should be at room temperature to ensure that the maximum amount of air can be beaten into the mixture.
? Pre-heat the oven to 170ºC.
? In a bowl, combine the butter and sugar [...]

Tap into butcher’s wisdom

I always say there is nothing like a good piece of juicy, succulent beef steak. When it comes to purchasing my beef, I make no compromise and only buy it fresh.
That means fresh from the butcher. We are blessed to have so many butcheries in the country. Even the big retail shops have butchery sections.
The [...]