Wickedfood Newsletter 04 November 09

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

SUNNINGHILLInformation & bookings (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

BOKSBURGInformation & bookings (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Hi all,

Congratulations to the Blue Bulls for winning the Currie Cup final it was a fantastic game and I’m sure all the rugby fans out there enjoyed it thoroughly, We would also like to welcome Mundial Knives on board at Wickedfood Cooking School Sunninghill. We will now only be using these excellent knives at the school. Wickedfood Chef had a chance to use a set while learning how to butcher a wild pig and it made the job so much much easier. Wickedfood Sunninghill has a variety of these knives for sale at a special price.

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Cookbook of the weekIn Desserts, James Martin (renowned TV chef) indulges his sweet tooth, providing an irresistible selection of more than 100 hot puddings, cold desserts, cakes, bakes, ice creams and sorbets. Click Here to read more.

Our food article of the week: – Eating a breakfast of just-laid eggs or toast with honey recently pilfered from your own beehive is argument enough for leaving the city for the charms of the countryside. The Chicken Eglu transforms backyard into barnyard. Click Here to read more

Our favourite ingredient: – If autumn could be a spice, it’d be cinnamon. Earthy and subtle, cinnamon yields a beguiling warmth that pairs beautifully with crisp breezes, pumpkin patches, and burnished trees. It isn’t a fluke that the apple, fall’s superlative fruit, jives so well with the cinnamon quill’s tempestuous musk. Click Here to read more.

Food quote of the week: – “No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut” – Channing Pollock

Food tip of the week: – Measurements indicate a full container that has been leveled off. For example, to measure one teaspoon of ground cinnamon, dip a teaspoon into the jar and use a straight edge to level it off.
Unless otherwise specified, 1 cup of all purpose flour is measured using the “scoop and level” technique: Dip a 1-cup measure into a sack of flour and scoop out the flour. Then level off the top by sweeping a straight edge over the cup.
Do not sift flour before measuring unless specified in the recipe.
If an ingredient is described as (for example), “1 cup pecans, chopped,” that means the pecans should be measured whole and then chopped. If the ingredient is intended to be chopped and then measured, it will be described as “1 cup chopped pecans.”
For accurate measuring, use the correct type of measuring cup. When measuring a liquid, let it settle and then read it at eye level.

Recipe of the week – Chourizo Bread

The Wickedfood Team

Wickedfood Cooking School runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these events are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

Chourizo and cheese fritters

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The Spanish tapas menu contains a number of deep-fried fritters, usually little morsels of meat or vegetables, mixed into a choux pastry dough and deep-fried. For this dish the Spanish use a firm goats’ milk cheese, but halloumi works very well, as it softens, but does not melt.
choux-puff

Choux pastry dough

1 cup water
1/4 cup butter
1/4t freshly grated nutmeg
1/2t salt
110g flour
2 eggs


Filling

±200g) chourizo sausage, cubed to ±1cm
±200g halloumi, cubed to ±1cm, same as chourizo

Oil for deep-frying

Choux pastry dough

  1. Combine the water, butter, nutmeg and salt in a small high-sided saucepan. Bring to the boil.
  2. Once the butter has melted and the water is boiling briskly, add the flour, all at once and stir with a wooden spoon over a high heat, until the dough leaves the side of the pan, to form a ball. Cook for a further 2 minutes.
  3. Remove the saucepan from the heat, add eggs one at a time, beating vigorously as each is added – the dough may separate, but will re-form as you continue to beat.

Filling

  1. Fold the chourizo and cheese into the choux pastry and mix well.
  2. Heat the oil for deep-frying to 190°C, drop a few fritters into the oil (do not overcrowd the pan), turn continually until they are puffed and golden. Drain on paper towels, and keep warm in a pre-heated low oven. Serve immediately.

Makes ±24.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Wickedfood Cooking school runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built Johannesburg cooking studios. Cooking lessons are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our cookery classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these events are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.