Friday, May 31, 2013

Winter-tummy warmers

Every year, the Biltong festival celebrates being proudly South African in the midst of the icy winter, making the best of the chilly days and icy evenings. This year, the two days promise to 'warm' guests up with plenty of hearty food stalls, family activities and amazing live entertainment.

Many people consider hearty, warm, home-made meals the best way to keep warm during the cold winter months and we have a perfect receipe for you to try out for your next evening relaxing around the fire.


Biltong & Parmesan POTBROOD

4 cups Flour
3 tbsp Sugar
1 tbsp Salt
7g Dry yeast
40g Unsalted Butter
3 tbsp Fresh Thyme (chopped)
3 cloves Garlic (crushed)
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup Biltong powder
1 1/2 cup Luke warm water

Directions:
- Sift flower into a bowl
- Add the sugar and yeast
- Rub in butter
- Add thyme, garlic, parmesan, biltong powder and salt
- Gradually add luke warm water to form dough
- Knead for 10minutes unitl smooth and elastic
- Place in greased bowl and allow to rise to double the original size
- Knead dough again
- Place in loaf tin
- Place on braai coals for 45minutes

Done :) No need to stay indoors to keep warm and the tummies full :)

Friday, May 24, 2013

2013 SAMA winners to heat up the icy Biltong Festival stage...

The festival will once again be showing off with three 2013 SAMA winners at the 23rd instalment of the Biltong festival!

Zahara made us proud when she took the best selling ring-back tone award for Loliwe.

MiCasa might be new to the music scene but they have already proved that they are here to stay by winning the SAMPRA award for 'Heavenly Scent'.

And the then last but not least, the multi SAMA winning artists walked away with two awards this year - for best contemporary music album and best selling album.

Be sure not to miss these AMAZING artists in action on the 12th and 13th of July at the CASTLE LAGER East Cape Biltong Festival :)

Come 'hang' with us :)

Monday, May 6, 2013

Winners announced!

We are very proud to announce the winners in the Design@Bay "Rallying for the rhino" poster design competition in conjunction with the Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival 2013...

The competition winners were in first place, Marc Cooper, a BTech student at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU).



In second and third place are Darren Berkland and Eyleen Frost, also students at NMMU.

The winning poster received a R3000.00 cash prize from Design@Bay, the second and third runners up received hampers from the Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival’s main sponsor, SAB. Included in all the prizes were tickets to the 2013 Castle Lager East Cape Biltong Festival taking place on the 12th and 13th July in Somerset East.

Well done to all the students who entered and a big congratulations to the 1st place winner, Marc Cooper :)