Aug 2020 - Bloem

Wish list
Travel and food and a touch of glam this August
Tapas for real foodies
Tapas with Liam Tomlin is the most
heavenly book imaginable. It’s a
book to drool over, to sit for hours
earmarking recipes and planning gettogethers.
It’s all about the style of
food Liam likes to cook and the way
he likes to eat ... with lots of different
tastes, textures and cooking styles. It’s
crammed with inspiring, exceptionally
styled photos of food you just long to
re-create.
What this isn’t, is a book for scaredy-cat
cooks. Or for those with timid taste
buds. It kicks off fairly safely with potato
and chorizo tortilla, but before long it’s
all braised pig’s head with bacon and
egg, and sautéed frogs’ legs with wild
mushrooms, parsley purée and truffle
dressing. The Basic Recipe section
includes walnut tuile and duck liver
parfait and bao buns, for heaven’s sake.
Delicious? Yes. But basic? Maybe not
so much. You need a certain amount
of skill and dedication – and time – to
follow many of the recipes. Of course
there are loads and loads of dishes that
are less daunting ... the tomato tart
with Parmesan catalan, basil and olives
is time-consuming but delicious; the
pancetta-wrapped prawns with crab
and spring onion risotto is possibly our
favourite recipe from the book.
Liam, an Irish chef who worked in
restaurants around the world before
moving to Cape Town where he’s
opened restaurants including the
original Chefs Warehouse 10 yearsor-so
ago and more recently Chefs
Warehouse Maison in Franschhoek,
describes his way of cooking as
being focused on technique and on
extracting as much flavour as possible
to create tasty and well balanced
dishes. This is the second edition of
his book – the first, self-published,
was only available at his restaurants.
An exceptional buy for a real foodie.
Penguinrandomhouse, R399.
We’re wearing summer
A starfish. A pineapple. A
flamingo, ocean wave and sea
turtle. Five gorgeous images that
have us longing for summer. With
the new, limited edition range at
Pandora we can wear summer all
year round. Actress Millie Bobby
Brown co-designed this bold and
colourful range, saying ‘All the
symbols I chose are my absolute
favourite parts of summer and
each charm holds a fun memory
or meaning to me.’ The Pandora
Me range – four dangle charms
and an earring sold as a single
stud – is a limited edition,
available only until December
this year. Charms from R239, buy
online from pandora.net/en-za/
collections/pandora-me
8 Get It Bloemfontein August 2020 getitmagazine.co.za/bloemfontein
Compiled by KYM ARGO