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Cape Dairy Experience

Cape Dairy Experience

Posted on
November 6, 2012
by zirkie

I was lucky enough to win two tickets to the Cape Dairy Event that took place the past weekend at Sandringham Wine Estate. Regular readers of my blog will know that I love festivals such as The Cheese Festival, The Olive Festival, etc, so this was a wonderful win for me!

Hubs and I went on Saturday, 3 November. Seeing as he’s from a farm, hubs enjoyed all the farm implements a lot and I must admit that I would have loved to sit in one of those big tractors, but they were unfortunately locked. He also enjoyed the cows and the goats.

Goats at the Cape Dairy Experience

There were a wide variety of stalls. At the Worcester Museum’s stall they were doing demonstrations on how to make butter!

Worcester museum

Roosterkoek van Worcester museum

Of course most of our time was spent at the cooking demonstrations! The first one we attended was by Davide Ostuni from Puglia Cheese where he demonstrated how to make mozzarella cheese. Davide made extremely nice goodies with this fresh mozzarella as well as a delicious risotto and we were lucky enough to taste!

Puglia cheese

The second demonstration that we attended was hosted by Errieda du Toit and Cara Brink. Cara made lemon ice cream which was delicious and I am definitely going to try the recipe. Errieda made baby toffee apples, similar to what I have done here. She also made some toffee grapes which would look great on the Christmas table next to a gammon. Cara also made some stewed pears that were served with a cambrini. Everything was devine!

Huiskok

Cara Brink

Toffee grapes on Cambrini

Roasted pears

I was also fortunate enough to win a cheese hamper from Karoo Goat’s Milk Products. I cannot wait to find time to start experimenting with these cheeses, so watch this space!

Goat's cheese

Related posts:

The Olive Festival in Riebeek Valley……and living in Cape Town and loving it! Cupcakes with an Apple filling topped with cream cheese icing Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town 2013 Something quick for Meatless Mondays Cape Town Good Food and Wine Show
Festivals and Markets tags: butter / Cape Dairy Experience / Cara Brink / Davide Ostuni / Errieda du Toit / Huiskok / Karoo Goat’s milk dairy products / pinkpolkadot / Puglia cheese / Sandringham / Worcester Museum

9 Responses

  1. 68ghia November 6, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    A firm favourite of mine is deep fried haloumi 😉
    And of course brie on rye 😉
    Glad you enjoyed the show PPD!

    Reply
  2. Sous Chef November 6, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    Well done Dottie, I see both you an Chantelle won hampers, enjoy!

    Reply
  3. adinparadise November 7, 2012 at 1:51 am

    Lucky you with that cheese hamper. 🙂 What an interesting and delicious visit.

    Reply
  4. usha singh November 7, 2012 at 5:30 am

    Hi, it seems like you guys had lots of fun, and well done on winning, looking forward to seeing your cheesey recipes!!

    Reply
  5. Janice Tripepi November 7, 2012 at 7:20 am

    What a fab prize Zirkie – looking forward to the fruits of your bounty! xxx

    Reply
  6. Lisaman November 7, 2012 at 7:30 am

    What a lovely prize…I love cheese!!

    Reply
  7. Tandy November 7, 2012 at 8:21 am

    I am also looking forward to what you come up with, using the cheese 🙂

    Reply
  8. mitzi reddy November 7, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    Sounds like a fab. day – you seem to be like Sue Green – you both have the lucky winning streak.

    Reply

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