• Berry choc-chunk ice cream is perfect as a Valentine’s treat, but that’s not to say it’s any less delicious on another day. Jam is wonderful swirled into ice cream! Its high sugar content keeps it from freezing solid, so it’s a deliciously chewy ribbon in the frozen custard. You can make this with chocolate chips instead of hand-chopped chunks, but the variation in chunk size is, to our minds, part of the charm. Recipe by Kate Shrire 

    Print Recipe Vegan almond butter and toasted millet truffles Serves: Makes about 25 Cooking Time: 15 minutes + 1 hour, to harden Ingredients 2,5ml (½ tsp) canola oil 70g dehulled millet, uncooked 180g almond butter 30ml (2 tbsp) desiccated coconut Pinch salt 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract 100g dried figs, finely chopped 170g sugar-free dark

    I sit down to (yet another) sensational cup of coffee with Jaco de Witt and business partner and MasterChef SA 2013 runner-up Leandri van der Wat after a relatively chaotic morning of shooting, dodging customers, skirting around coffee grinders and hilariously positioning the two of them to create the perfect portrait. The morning is only halfway done and already we’re all three cappuccinos down. After a lengthy conversation about speculoos (a Dutch nutbutter with a flavour reminiscent of the Nuttikrust biscuit) and her sister Seline’s bizarre consumption habits (let’s just say that 800g of speculoos saw its demise in only…