Margot Janse The Tasting Room Claire Gunn

The last supper with Margot Janse

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Before I was a photographer, I was a chef and one of the best places I ever worked was at The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais, Franschhoek. The legendary Dutch-born chef Margot Janse was the executive chef and my Head chef was Chris Erasmus. This might have been the best team I ever worked with - a power house of passionate, pirate chefs and never-en[...]
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Peanut butter pumpkin and chili soup by Claire gunn

Peanut butter, pumpkin and chilli soup with dried orange

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This is such an easy soup and peanut butter and pumpkin make a great combination. Instead of cooking all the ingredients in a pot, this is a roasted and blended soup. It’s very filling and rich and creamy and comforting. I encourage you to add more chilli or peanut butter if that's what you like. PEANUT BUTTER, PUMPKIN AND CHILLI SOUP  [...]
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Tuistfael Errieda du toit claire gunn

Tuistafel by Errieda du Toit

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I was raised in a very English South African environment. In my teens we moved to the heart of Afrikaans-speaking suburban life - Durbanville winelands. Ever since then I have been a tourist in my home town with an unending fascination and a familiarity with this comforting community. Afrikaans and food go hand in hand with my nostalgia of the culture, and t[...]
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cocoacoconut-ice-cream-sandwiches-by-claire-gunn

Cocoacoconut ice cream sandwiches

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This is a visual story of the romance of ice cream and cookies. They are dairy-free, gluten-free, refined sugar-free and plant-based (that’s mostly what I want to hear about my desserts anyway). They are a sensual treat to eat, crunchy, messy, gooey – and quite full of deep cacao flavour. The cookies are wonderfully crisp and great to eat on their own.[...]
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La Tete by Claire Gunn 2017

A day in the life at La Tete, Cape Town

Posted In: Food | Visual stories
Cape Town is a foodie capital and in the last 10 years so many restaurants, cafes and bars have popped up in the CBD and winelands areas. So what is special about another restaurant on Bree street? Difference. The restaurant is essentially undecorated and so is the food. Simplicity, few ingredients and classic renderings of familiar comfort food is the[...]
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Claire Gunn Lensbaby food photography

LENSBABY photography

Posted In: DESTINATIONS | Photography | Visual stories
If you are a lover of creamy, shallow depth of field photography then you might shoot with lenses with an aperture of f2.8 - f1.4. If you are an adventurous type then you might have tried FREELENSING. This is where you remove the lens from your DSLR and hover it in front of the open camera body and continue to take photos. Beautiful and intense blurry imager[...]
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PESTO SOBA NOODLES WITH KALE AND LEMON

Posted In: Food | Recipes
This might be one of those dishes that they call a weeknight winner. It’s so quick and easy to make and packed with leafy, green goodness. If you don’t have soba noodles, you can use normal spaghetti or tagliatelle, or even rice noodles or gluten-free if that is your thing. You can also substitute the kale for spinach or cabbage. I used the pesto left ov[...]
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Claire Gunn Lokal in Baardscheerdersbosch

LOKAL in Baardscheerdersbosch

Posted In: DESTINATIONS | Food | Food origins | Visual stories
Have you ever had a dream of moving to the country and buying a piece of land to grow your own veggies and live a more peaceful, simple life in harmony with nature? That is what Stanley and Lainy did in the tiny, far-out village of Baardskeerdersbos in the Overberg. Now they are hosting pop-up dinners there, using ingredients straight out of their gard[...]
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Macro culinary photography

Posted In: Food | Photography
These images were created very early on in my photographic explorations and this collection remains one of my most treasured.  I dined at Haute Cabriere one evening when Chef Ryan Shell was heading up the kitchen team. The images were lit mostly by candles and I used a x4 and x 10 magnifying lens to capture the magnificent subterranean world of light and[...]
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Claire Gunn

RED VELVET NICE CREAM PARFAIT

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This post is unashamedly about celebrating my love for pink flowers and my cravings for beetroot. What human doesn’t get cheered up by the overzealous explosion of fuchsia in the generous beetroot? Fynbos flowers are my sweet joy, especially pink and grey varieties…so yes, I loved making a healthy beetroot smoothie and nice cream parfait, but we know[...]
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