LEISURE
RECIPES FROM TASHAS INSPIRED The gorgeous tashas Inspired is the second cookbook by restaurateur Natasha Sideris, founder of the popular tashas boutique cafés. We bring you four recipes from her inspired take on café culture, to get you thinking like a restaurateur, with table settings and music for every menu!
CHILLI EGGS
(A New York State of Mind) SERVES 4 Any chef will tell you that the biggest
tashas Café Classics,
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– Café Society, A Spanish Affair, Le
everything hot and ready to serve at
focused on classic
Bistro, The Levant Kitchen, A New York
the same time. There are only three
dishes served at her restaurants,
State of Mind, A Day in the Country and
components to this breakfast – hash
in tashas Inspired restaurateur
The Mediterranean Kitchen – tashas
browns (potato rösti or Jewish latkes),
Natasha Sideris shares the
Inspired encourages home cooks to
sauce, and poached eggs – but you
inspiration she has drawn from
think like a restaurateur and create
need to plan ahead to get it right.
her travels, as well as her Greek
memorable meals by considering all
Streamline by roasting the peppers
and Cypriot heritage.
the elements that lend themselves to
and tomatoes at the same time. When
a specific menu, including the table
they’re done, leave the oven on but
setting and the music.
turn it down very low so you can use it
challenge of making a cooked
hereas her first book,
Divided into seven different chapters
Filled with over 70 pieces of beautiful, original art and themed
breakfast is not the eggs but having
as a warming drawer while poaching the eggs.
menus, this large-format hardback book will sit as perfectly on the kitchen
CHILLI RED PEPPERS
counter as it will on a coffee table.
• 2 red peppers
STAND A CHANCE TO WIN
• 24 cherry tomatoes We have a copy to give away
• 3 tbsp olive oil
of tashas Inspired, courtesy of
• 1 medium red onion,
Quivertree publishers. To stand a chance to win, send an email
• 1 tbsp chopped chives
to info@silverdigest.co.za with
• 2 small red bird’s-eye chillies,
'tashas Inspired' in the subject line. 42
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sliced salt & pepper
seeded & finely sliced
