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Introducing Chef Michael from "Chef Creations with a twist", happy to serve you wherever you may be. Michael provides the ultimate personal chef service whether cooked at your home or his (he delivers too)
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hef Michael greets us with a big smile, our host and personal cook is famous for his canapés. We are presented with creamy goat's cheese on crispy bruschetta, each topped with a semi sundried cherry tomato and basil pesto, next is skewered sweet peppered pork, followed by the lightest and flakiest tempura fried prawns, served with a splash of fresh lemon juice. Presentation, something I myself struggle with immensely, is picture perfect. Luckily, there is more in store for us, barbecued rack of ribs in the stickiest and most wonderfully balanced sauce follows the canapés. For our dessert, the most gorgeous decadent brownies, lightly stencilled with powdered sugar forming the shapes of cutlery. Michael, aged 40, is versatile and blends into whatever is needed in any situation. He likes to roll with what life gives him. Born in the UK, raised in South Africa from the age of 6 months, Michael developed a love for cooking and the various tastes he experienced while his parents moved from place to place around South Africa. He recalls cooking braais at the age of 11. Having been formally trained as a chef and awarded a scholarship by Compass Group, the largest contract food company in the world, Chef Michael knows the industry well. The cheffing business can be quite stressful, Chef Michael muses during our interview, after 23 years of being in the kitchen, he
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