Congratulations Margret Meijer

The winner of the ON THE BEACH Competition.

She answered the following question correctly:

QUESTION
The name of the wine that is sponsoring the TV program ‘On The Beach’ ?

ANSWER
The Beachhouse

Margaret wins a 4 night bed and breakfast stay at The Beach House at The Plettenberg Hotel. Well Done Margaret!

Grant may be the culinary king in the kitchen, but his basement has been left in raw and extra rare form.

Walls are poorly framed and posts are leaning so much the room makes you dizzy.

Can Bryan whip up Grant’s renovation skills enough to finish the basement? 

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Each week, host Sasha Zambetti invites a food expert into her kitchen to find out how easy techniques and tips can help any home-cook feel like a chef in their own kitchen.

Episode 6 – Flavours Of Africa

One of the biggest food trends is to eat local, seasonal ingredients and make the most of your local cuisine.  This week In My Kitchen, chef Mokgadi helps Sasha cook a feast of African flavours with yam balls and omáli.

• Mshikaki
• Omm’ Ali
• Yam Balls

Episode 5 – Choice Chicken

Chicken is a versatile and inexpensive meat, but if you’re tired of always eating roasts, get In My Kitchen this week as host Sasha and chef Jenny Kay show us 3 easy ways to make the most of chicken.

• Chicken Tagine
• Basil Pesto Stuffed Chicken
• Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Episode 4 – A Perfect Picnic

A picnic is a fantastic way to enjoy our great outdoors and summer weather.  In My Kitchen this week, host Sasha and picnic expert Julie Lindheim show us how to create the perfect picnic.

• Layered Chicken and Vegetable Picnic Bread
• Pink Lemonade
• Red Velvet Cupcakes

Episode 3 – Make it Gel

Gelatin can be a chef’s best friend or cause a kitchen nightmare. We find out this week some of the best ways to use gelatin in the kitchen to create a savoury mousse and delectable desserts.

• Prawn Mousse
• Spiced Pomegranate Jelly
• Crunchie Cheesecake

Episode 2 – Easy Summer

Summer entertaining is easy if you keep to a few rules – make it tasty, light, with lots of fresh colours and crunch to appeal to all your senses.  Join Sasha and chef Jenny Kay in the kitchen this week to discover easy ways to entertain your guests this summer.

• Herb-crusted seared fillet
• Spinach salad
• Gooseberry fool

Episode 1 – Pack a lunch

Host Sasha Zambetti and Jenny Kay from Angela Day create the perfect lunch-box for school or work, full of healthy muesli snacks, scrumptious sandwiches to help you stay mentally alert and indulgent smoothies to give you a midday treat.

• Sandwich sushi
• Banana muffins
• Cranberry bars
• Smoothie

Armed with quick wit, a little sarcasm, and a lot of patience, veteran contractor Bryan Baeumler teaches homeowners invaluable building skills and gets these families out of renovation hell.

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Episode Guide

EPISODE 1 Baby Room Makeover

EPISODE 2 Exterior Paint Peeling

Armed with little more than a pair of rubber gloves and some valuable household advice, they persuade the unhygienic, the messy and the downright disgusting to clean up their act.

Along the way, they reveal some horrifying facts about the bugs and microbes lurking in our homes.

“Aggie MacKenzie and Kim Woodburn have made housework more fashionable than ‘Big Brother’.”
- The Guardian, UK

Episode Guide

• Episode 1
  Dan Westley is a rocket man and while his hobby is explosive, his love life’s a damp squib. His toxic bachelor pad is the main problem, so his family has called in the nation’s cleaning queens to give him the rocket he really needs.

• Episode 2
  Radio DJ Vicky Richardson is hot on music but not even lukewarm on housework. Over the years her bedroom has disappeared under a mountain of vinyl and the mice regard her filthy kitchen as the perfect playground.

  Britain’s cleaning queens Kim Woodburn and Aggie Mackenzie have to take this grime offender back to school for the basics of domestic management. It’s a steep learning curve, Vicky is introduced to the cleaning products aisle of her local supermarket and gets a master class in the essentials of proper hand washing.

• Episode 3
  David and Angela May’s Cornish cottage is letting down the neighbourhood.  It’s been the marital home for 28 years but now the dirt, clutter and chaos is keeping them apart. It started when Angela went to stay with her sick mum and so she enjoyed living in a clean house and she couldn’t face going home! Leaving husband David behind.

  He works as a builder and while he turns other people’s homes into palaces, he comes home to a scene of devastation. Both blame each other. Angela likes to shop, David doesn’t like DIY. David says Angela’s clutter leaves no room to do any DIY, Angela says if David did the DIY she would feel the need to shop to cheer-up the place.

  Cleaning Queens Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie are on a mission to restore domestic harmony to this couple split apart by dirt and clutter.

• Episode 4
  Steve Jones happily spends hours washing, buffing and polishing – but all of that attention is lavished on his motorbike, not his Bristol home. It’s best described as a hovel – even the flies have dropped dead in disgust.

  The kitchen is toxic, which is quite a problem since he loves cooking. One bedroom is a litter tray, the other a dark hole which hasn’t seen daylight in years. The dining room’s gone missing, although there is an impressive motorbike service department. This is just how Steve likes it.

  But all that’s about to change as the nation’s Cleaning Queens Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie are on their way.

Ingredients

• 8 – 10 sheets phyllo pastry
• melted butter
• 300ml milk
• 30ml castor sugar
• 250ml cream
• 1 egg, beaten
• 30ml rose water
• 50g chopped nuts (almonds, pistachio and hazelnuts)
• 100g raisins
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• whipped cream or ice cream to serve

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160̊C. Lay each sheet of pastry on a baking sheet – brush with butter.
2. Bake for about 20 minutes until crisp.
3. Remove from oven and increase oven heat to 180̊C.
4. In a saucepan, heat the milk, sugar and cream in low heat until hot, not boiling.
5. Slowly add the egg and rosewater, cook until it thickens stirring all the time.
6. Remove from heat, set aside.
7. Crumble the pastry using your hands and then spread it in layers with the nuts and raisins in a buttered baking dish then the pastry layer alternating until the mixture is finished – the top layer must be pastry.
8. Pour custard mixture evenly over the nut and pastry dish and bake in the oven for 20minutes, until golden.
9. Sprinkle with cinnamon and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

Ingredients

• 1kg rump or fillet steak, cut into cubes
• 5ml red chilli powder
• 2ml black pepper
• 5ml ginger, crushed
• 5ml garlic, crushed
• 15ml tomato paste
• 15ml oil
• salt to taste
• 2 tablespoons raw pawpaw, blended to a smooth paste

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl and marinate meat overnight or for at least 4 hrs in the fridge.
2. Skewer the meat on water soaked wooden skewers.
3. Make the braai fire and grill the meat skewers on the braai, basting with marinate until cooked.

Ingredients

• ½ medium sized yam, peeled
• Half an onion, finely chopped
• 2 tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped
• 5ml chopped fresh thyme
• 1 fresh green chilli, chopped
• 1 egg, beaten
• 5ml chopped garlic
• salt and pepper to season
• oil for deep frying

Method

• Cut the yam into cubes and boil in salted water for 30mins, until soft.
• Remove from heat, drain water and mash.
• Add chopped onion, tomato, chilli, garlic, thyme and egg.
• Season mixture with salt and mix through. Heat the oil.
• Using a teaspoon, shape the yam mixture into balls and deep-fry until golden brown.
• Serve with a dipping sauce.

What you will need:

• Clinker bricks
• X 1 bucket Cement
• X 3 bucket Riversand
• Water
• Trowel
• Spirit level
• Rubber mallet
• Small plank
• Cleaning sponge
• Weed gard
• Pebbles / small stone
• Parsley

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