Why not carry on the christmas cheer on all year round? This category of our website is filled with all things festive from delicious christmas recipes to how you can make your christmas lunch, dinner or event the best possible!
Source Food activated and managed the Pick n Pay food store at the Kirstenbosch Carols by Candlelight. The Kirstenbosch Carols by Candlelight is an annual event for the Source Food team and a lot of preparation goes into the activation and management for this joyous event. There are numerous elements planned over a number of…
This duck recipe is packed full of festive flavour with the sticky sweetness of the oranges and the freshness of the herbs!! Christmas Roast Duck Ingredients a few sprigs of fresh rosemary 1 tsp nutmeg sea salt freshly ground black pepper 2 oranges, zested and halved 2 x 2 kg whole ducks, necks and giblets reserved…
Image from moco-choco.com Gary’s wife, Chef Sarah Dall, needed to get creative for a photo-shoot involving Christmas and biscuit decorations. It needed to be something fresh, new and a little bit different. While walking on the beach a few days before the shoot Gary & Sarah found a piece of drift wood which was unusually straight…
Image from www.funandfoodcafe.com Dulce de Leche is a typical Argentinian sweet but it is enjoyed all over South America. In France they have something similar, but it is called Confiture de Lait. This sticky sweet, caramelized milk and sugar sauce can be enjoyed with doughnuts and pancakes, swirled into brownies or made into a butter icing…
This is such a fun recipe to bake with the kids, we love how cute these little guys turn out, and you can make them festive for Christmas in July. Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes per batch Yield: +- 12 gingerbread men Allergic trigger: dairy, wheat, ginger Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, at room…
Egg nog is a sweetened dairy-based beverage traditionally made with milk and/or cream, sugar, and whipped eggs (which gives it a frothy texture). Brandy, rum, whisky, bourbon, vodka, or a combination of liquors are often added. The finished serving is often garnished with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, or pumpkin spice. It has also…
Christmas cake is a type of fruitcake served at Christmas time in many countries. A Christmas cake may be light or dark, crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, shaped round, square or oblong as whole cakes, fairy cakes, or petit fours, with marzipan, icing, glazing, dusting with icing sugar, or plain. If a Christmas cake…
Christmas isn’t complete without this festive favourite – serve hot or cold for family and friends. And, one of our favourite things, using leftover gammon to make the yummiest sandwiches. FESTIVE GLAZED GAMMON With a sticky golden crust Ingredients Serves 4-6 1kg gammon 1 onion, quartered 1 stick celery, roughly chopped 1 carrot, roughly chopped…
Tomorrow, according to a vast number of folk on the interweb and my mom, is the day you should put up your christmas tree. The tree was traditionally decorated with edibles such as apples, nuts or dates but today, there are a wide variety of ornaments, such as garland, tinsel, and candy canes used. We are…
A mince pie is a small fruit-based mincemeat sweet pie traditionally served during the Christmas season. The tradition of spiced mince pies goes back centuries but the name ‘mincemeat’ refers to the filling, which up until the Victorian era would have contained actual meat along with the spices and fruit. The only remnants of the…