Brownie Points
I showed Progress how to bake brownies today. Actually, it sort of started out as a lesson in brownie baking, segued into a lecture on the history of the ice…
I showed Progress how to bake brownies today. Actually, it sort of started out as a lesson in brownie baking, segued into a lecture on the history of the ice…
My invoice from Franci, our herb grower, reads as follows this week: Chocolate peppermint (Yay! Glad to have that back in the kitchen) Green basil (For pairing with the last…
This is what 720 eggs look like: And this is what the honour system looks like: I had totally forgotten, but one of the eggs Celia delivered to us last…
Last week I was a lucky guest at a High Mountain tea ceremony at O'Ways Teacafe. Nigiro tea merchant Mingwei Tsai spent over two hours taking us through three cuppings…
With all of Cape Town on holiday-induced go-slow, things have definitely been quieter here at Ice Cream HQ. But that doesn't mean we have been going slowly. Rather, it's been…
I spent the weekend at my parents' farm, an hour of Cape Town. One of the few downsides to having my own business is how hard it is to take…
The last ten kilos of strawberries that we shall get this summer arrived at the kitchen this morning. Hermanus, a smallholder in Stellenbosch, grows them, and we get them at…
Last week we were at our first-ever three day market. It was exhausting, physically challenging (two steep flights of stairs to our stall. Why???) and really, really wonderful. We almost…
NOTE: This is a post I wrote last month, in the eye of the storm that was setting up our kitchen, but never got round to posting. Better late than…
A quick visit to Cocoafair last week turned into a forty minute whirlwind taste tour of some of the beans that Nino, their chocolate maker in chief, has been playing…
Always wanted to work with/eat loads of ice cream? Well, we're hiring scoopers to man our scoop counters over the summer season, at Saturday markets, and at special events. THE…
Yesterday we welcomed our new manager, Marianne, to the office. Although Tuesday was technically her first day, she's already been scooping for us for two weeks at the market as…
Today we visited the Rosetta Roastery. Like us, they are a small company working with small batches of carefully sourced, high quality ingredients. Only, their passion is coffee. They select…