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Thursday 30th June 2011
Cape Gourmet Mushrooms
&
Eight at Spier
Stellenbosch
"Why won't one of
these ladies look at me
when I produce my
camera?" - Brian seems
to be thinking - some of
them deliberately look
away when the camera
comes out!
Cape Town has had
extremes of weather this
year and the day we
decided to visit Cape
Gourmet Mushrooms in the
Klapmuts area proved to
be no different.
It rained en route on
the highway - stopped as
we got to the mushroom
farm (thank goodness) -
and then rained, on and
off, for the rest of the
day!
Everyone listening
intently to Pete who
started this pilot
project of growing the
mushrooms in containers.
It was particularly
interesting to find out
that they have even
supplied containers and
know-how to DuNoon,
Kyalitsha and other
areas with great
success. Encouraging
others to earn extra
money in an achievable
project!
The pilot project of
growing these mushrooms
is so successful that
shortly all the
containers are being
moved to an industrial
site in Ottery.
The product is sold to
Checkers stores and they
also supply a lot of the
specialist food markets
in and around Cape Town.
Pete provided sample
packs of dried
mushrooms, complete with
a recipe sheet, for each
lady!
Is this a hand being
grown amongst the
mushrooms in the cold
room?
No, an optical illusion
- it belongs to Sally,
complete with cell
phone!
The
right hand photo
elicited the comment:
"Steak & mushrooms?"
thanks for the comment
Joy.
Lunch was at EIGHT at
SPIER - their new
organic restaurant.
We had a long table to
ourselves - talk about
feeling 'special'.
As the staff took our
drinks' orders, we were
served little cups of
hot soup - "Just a
little taster 'ma'm (to
take the
edge-off-your-hunger').
The open plan kitchen at
EIGHT and their coffee
station in view of
everyone in the
restaurant is ever so
exciting - always good
to see how your food is
prepared!
The choice of mains was
chicken pot pie with
garden fresh vegetables
OR hake fish cakes with
a salad. Both were
delicious - but the pot
pie seemed the most
popular choice at the
end of the day.
Cold, rainy weather and
hot food go
hand-in-hand.
This leopard had spent the day
at an educational in a local
school and was being helped out
of the bakkie before being
returned to it's enclosure.
So great that we were right
there to watch this happen.
All too soon our day was done
and it was time to be escorted
back to base, in luxury,
by Hylton Ross .
Mush-room: A fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, often with gills on the underside of the cap.
