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dinnerlicious Edition 226 - Jun/Jul 2025
Mediterranean baked cheese starter with blue olive bread
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Ingredients

  • small block feta
  • 1 x Camembert
  • 1 x Brie
  • 1 x blue cheese triangle
  • 6 yoghurt cheese balls
  • fresh rosemary
  • 2 packets red and/or yellow cherry tomatoes
  • 10 garlic cloves – unpeeled
  • 1 sachet black olives
  • olive oil
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • drizzle of balsamic reduction

Method

Turn on the oven to 180 ˚C.

Take a big oven roasting dish or plate and arrange the cheeses on the plate.

Rinse the cherry tomatoes under running water and place around the cheese. Place the garlic cloves, rosemary sprigs and black olives between the cherry tomatoes.

Sprinkle the whole dish with olive oil and black pepper.

Bake for about 30 minutes until the cheese is soft and the tomatoes and garlic are cooked.

Serve with chunks of Blue olive bread.

This should be enough for about 8 guests.

Tip: Never let cherry tomatoes sit in water, they will burst open. Just rinse under running water.

Recipe By
Sanet Prinsloo

Sanet Prinsloo

Chef

Born a Windhoeker, Sanet obtained her BSc Home Economics degree in Bloemfontein before leaving for the UK on a Working Holiday Visa. There she stumbled into the kitchen of 190 Queensgate in 1992 and has been in the kitchen ever since.

Back in Namibia her entrepreneurial spirit led her to own a coffee shop and a deli, with stints as caterer and as chef at lodges and farms.

In 2000 her life changed completely with the birth of her first son. Two more followed and she started baking from home in 2001 to be able to spend more time with the boys. Today she is still baking and delivers cookies and macarons all over the country.

Community projects:
President of NamChefs (2012 – 2017)
Worldchefs Certified Regional Judge (2014 – present) (SA, Mauritius, Egypt, UAE & Qatar)
Namibia’s Checkers Boerewors competition (2011 – present)
NAU Braai Competition (1999 – present)

“I wanted to become an actress, so now I cook on stage from time to time and I love it!” Sanet Prinsloo