Location: Salt River.
Probably like me you are thinking what on earth is a Food Jam. These things are starting to become more and more popular in South Africa and in Cape Town. Food Jams are sort of a social come dine with me. You cook and eat your own four course meal. That is the basics.
So I arrived, I am the only single person at a valentine’s day social food jam – who could have guessed it. Immediately Lulu puts me to ease, telling what exactly is going on that I am not the only foreign person in the place. I soon move on to the Sauvignon Blanc the nerves getting the better of me.
We all picked a spoon out of a silicon jar, I am on team Venus. You then head to your table. All becomes clear, every table/team is making a course and then we combine it all at the end for the meal.
Team Venus was on dessert duty. Three recipes, chocolate fondant, macaroons and ice cream. Yes we had to made ice cream from scratch and spun sugar! The recipes were easy to follow and with the extra help if was hard to get anything wrong. The couple I was with was lovely, they were really friendly and chatty. Apparently I am a good sergeant major, making sure everything was done on time, and to the recipe – well as much as we could… not as easy at it looks.
Throughout the entire process we had help, Lulu, Jade and the others were around to help with everything we needed. I ruined the first lot of spun sugar however we just did it again. It was easy to ask for help, piping macaroons is no joke on your own.
The results were delicious, pasta, fresh veggies, beef wellington, salads galore. It was fantastic, and there were doggy bags if you want to take any home with you. The spun sugar, see below, was the most fun, I wish I could show you the food and the boomerang but this platform is not quite ready for that. The food went so quickly and it was quite dark by this point.
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