Off Beet Blog

Category: Food

  • Spiced date and pecan nut pudding

    Spiced date and pecan nut pudding

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    Dominique Solomon
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    This gorgeous dessert is straight out of this month’s issue of PnP’s Freshliving magazine, and oh what a decadent treat it is for the cold days that are still ahead! I don’t get to shoot much these days, it however feels amazing to be back behind the lens and it feels like second nature to…

  • White flesh Nectarine.

    White flesh Nectarine.

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    Dominique Solomon
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    Nectarines are one of many of Summer’s amazing bounty that it has to offer.  I always miss seasonal summer fruits when it’s out of season and long for all things tropical and sweet in the wet winter months. Nectarines are basically peaches without all the fuzz. This luscious fruit’s name means ‘of or like nectar’…

  • Egyptian dukkah roasted veg.

    Egyptian dukkah roasted veg.

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    Dominique Solomon
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    The advent of a new year brings in the possibility of change, renewal and hope. I’m not on a diet of any sort nor am I going vegan/vegetarian (and no I am not swooping my day job to become a philosopher) But I’m trying to incorporate more vegetables/plants in my lifestyle. I adore Egyptian dukkah, it…

  • Aubergine fries with a honey balsamic drizzle.

    Aubergine fries with a honey balsamic drizzle.

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    Dominique Solomon
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    I’ve recently started to  broaden my food magazine perusing to international territory, reading online is one thing but I’m a sucker for good old paging through an actual book/magazine. Yes, I know not very Eco-friendly, but I’m tradionalist at heart! Sadly, we don’t have much of a wide selection of food magazines here in South…

  • Off the Beeten track – Riebeeck Kasteel.

    Off the Beeten track – Riebeeck Kasteel.

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    Dominique Solomon
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    My partner and I decided to take a trip and stay over in Riebeeck Kasteel, all before he is completely encumbered with pain and medication from an operation which will see him flat in bed for the next two weeks.The spontaneity of his idea to retreat to unknown territory was quickly met with Google searches…

  • Deconstructed lime meringue.

    Deconstructed lime meringue.

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    Dominique Solomon
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    I took it upon myself to recreate a classic and also critically deconstruct it. This in essence is the very teaching and philosophy of Massimo Bottura, celebrating nostalgia but asking questions. I made a deconstructed lime meringue dessert with crushed ginger cookies as the base, and a lime meringue ginger cookie sandwich(think ice cream sandwich…