• Familiar flavours made new… you simply have to try the chicken at Winner Winner, Melville’s newest, most vibey spot! The team behind Joburg favourites like A Streetbar Named Desire, Perron, The Griffin and The Office are at it again! Thom Hughes, Christa and Grant Ansell and Martin Jakoby (Christa’s brother) seem to have a foolproof recipe when it comes to opening restaurants. From the time they opened their first eatery, The Loft in Melville, they’ve blazed a tasty trail through the city, becoming known as much for their quirky take on cocktails as their outrageously moreish food. Maybe it’s because…

    Choux pastry is deceptively simple to make, and very rewarding, since the different shapes that can be created from it look spectacular! It’s also the perfect base on which to build a variety of flavour profiles. WHAT IS CHOUX? Choux (French for cabbage) dough, also known as pâte à choux, is twice-cooked to create the airy, hollow French pastry we know and love. Sweet versions of choux pastry are normally filled with cream for a dessert or sweet snack, while the savoury type can be filled with anything from shellfish to cream cheese, and served as hors d’oeuvres. Recipe by…

    A large poached egg contains 70 calories (297kJ), 5g total fat and 1,5g saturated fat, while a large egg scrambled in butter contains 102 calories (427kJ), 7,4g total fat and 2,2g saturated fat. An egg fried in butter contains slightly less kilojoules and fat than a scrambled egg, but still more than poached or boiled eggs. Replacing scrambled eggs with poached eggs for breakfast every day will save you 170 calories (740kJ) a week and will also ensure that you consume less saturated fat. Recipe by Claire Ferrandi and Dashania Murugas Photograph by Dylan Swart