We’d love to use this opportunity to share our latest blog posts, recipes from PJ Vadas, yummy product news, our Farmer Angus family and friends, and a little inspiration from me.
Latest blog posts
The Pope of regenerative agriculture is coming to South Africa.
It is impossible to describe how exciting it is that Joel Salatin is coming to do two workshops on our farm early next year. He is the reason that I am farming. I have already started practising deep breathing so that I can be calm around him.
Farm to plate
Egg Whites
The success of the PJ Vadas Pasteis de Nata, which use our egg yolks, has meant that we have lots of egg whites to move. Fortunately, there are lots of gym bunnies and meringue fans who love egg whites. Not sure how many gym bunnies are meringue fans and vice versa.
Cooking with PJ Vadas
Pavlova’s are traditionally enjoyed as a summer dessert. But why wait another five months until we can enjoy this much-loved treat? PJ’s fresh pavlova, made with my glyphosate and GMO-free egg whites is literally, to die for. Be sure to top it off with Spier’s home-made lemon curd (for sale in our Farm Cafe) and fresh farm berries.
Farmer Angus family and friends
Mark has been responsible for many good things in my life. Having fun with our family, incredible food experiences, fabulous wine, hunting, reloading ammunition, charcuterie and much more. He was the one who pushed me into starting my own butchery. This was whilst he was running the biggest grass-fed beef operation in South Africa that he had built in KZN.
What inspires me
Reinhold Messner
He was the first man to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. He then went on to be the first to climb all peaks higher than 8,000m without oxygen. Here is some of what is my favourite quote: “The true art of climbing is survival, and the point at which that becomes most difficult is when, having mastered what till then has been considered the epitome of achievement, you try to go one stage further.