Stories from my kitchen
Community Farmer / / Iming Lin
If I was the Education Minister for a day I would make farm visits compulsory. Knowing where your food comes from has always been something [...]
Community Baker / / Mount Elsewhere Bakery
The Community of Food Have you eaten anything lately which left you speechless? You know the feeling where you just want to take a moment [...]
How to Cook the Perfect Minestrone Soup
Today screamed A U T U M N with Lionshead snugly tucked away in a pillow of clouds. These clouds gently covering our beautiful mountains [...]
In search of FLAVOUR
I have always loved cooking and eating, in fact most of my memories of places, people and travels are intertwined with food. Growing up in [...]
Food Stories / / White Mountain Natural Produce
We braved the cold on Saturday to visit Henriette and Francois Malan at their family run farm White Mountain in the outskirts of Wolseley. Together [...]
Food Stories / / Klein Nektar Organic Farm
Spent two days at Klein Nektar Olive Farm in the picturesque Montagu, tasting their New Season organically grown Olive Oil, eating citrus fruits and playing [...]
Organic Veggie 101: Kale & Chard
It is now secret that I LOVE my greens and I am often teased at home for trying to sneak these into everything I cook. [...]
The Formula to a Perfect Curry
Curry 101 It is no secret, I LOVE CURRY, Indian, Thai, Malaysian, African - you name it, chances are I have made it. There is [...]
Essential Spices
It is no secret that I love spices and I find the wonderful world of spices fascinating, it is a topic we will discuss in full [...]
Introduction to Organic Food Workshop
Super excited to have hosted, together with Wild Organics, my first workshop on Tuesday evening in the lovely Soute Venue in Salt River. I was [...]
Guide to Sourcing the Best Ingredients
Sourcing the best ingredients mean different things for different people, for me it means LOCAL where possible, always ETHICAL, mostly IN SEASON and preferably SUSTAINABLE. [...]
It’s Time to Eat More PLANTS
SOME NEWS FROM MY KITCHEN... Thought I would just give you a quick update upon my return to the kitchen this week. Some of you [...]
Who Needs Hygge – We’ve Got Samesyn
In case you have not heard yet, I am taking a little food sabbatical from Adre's Kitchen till mid July. There are many reasons for [...]
Bakka’s Macedonian Red Pepper Ajvar
It always takes me by surprise when I am told that people actually cook my recipes. South Africans have a 'you HAVE to' tendency, it [...]
A Broccoli a Day…
Without sounding seriously obnoxious, I really love broccoli. It's not necessarily from a health perspective, although we know it is really really good for us, [...]
Welcome to the Magic of Seasonal Food!
Organic, I know I know, it’s the new buzzword, like clean eating, vegan, flexitarian, sustainability, ethical eating, truly free range but to name a few. [...]
I am Adré, a wholefoods & organic chef with a key interest in creating nourishing and delicious recipes using seasonal produce while supporting small scale farmers. Although classically trained, my passion is to inspire home cooks with my vibrant veg-centric recipes.
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