Schloss Kiwi - the culmination of years of cooking, learning, working in different sectors, moving country at least four times in my adult life and 'fusing' foods, cultures and ideas from all the places I have been and learnt from.
This page is all about my multicultural background and how it has influenced my style of food and life - as far as I am concerned there are very few hard and fast rules. If cooking a recipe and an ingredient is missing, I improvise. That, generally is also my motto in life - if something doesn't work out as I wanted or hoped it would, I try to find other ways to achieve the same goal.
My cooking and food in general has been inspired first and foremost by my mother. She was an amazing cook who had to learn the hard way how to butcher meat, make her own sausage, cure and smoke her own charcuterie, when she moved from Germany to Iraq. My Dad was working in Iraq at the time and on occasion could organise a pig. Only problem was it would come as a whole slaughtered beast, and it would be left on Mum's kitchen table for her to deal with. Mum,on the other hand had grown up in Germany and worked in Switzerland where it is normal to go shopping almost everday for the food you are to consume within the next 24 hours. It was a culture shock, but Mum rose to the challenge and over the years made sausages, bacon, ham, pates and more.
This page is all about those kind of foods that I grew up with - recipes will include my mothers originals as well as my own take on some traditional recipes. I won't be focusing only on German foods though. My dad is Austrian, my parents met in Switzerland. They were married in Iraq where I was born. I grew up in South Africa, lived in England and Germany and now New Zealand. I learnt to cook curry in Durban SA from the amazing Indian community there, I do my own take on a lot of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian foods and then I make up my own as I go along at times as well.
I hope you enjoy Schloss Kiwi as much as I enjoy creating it and the recipes that go on it.
This page is all about my multicultural background and how it has influenced my style of food and life - as far as I am concerned there are very few hard and fast rules. If cooking a recipe and an ingredient is missing, I improvise. That, generally is also my motto in life - if something doesn't work out as I wanted or hoped it would, I try to find other ways to achieve the same goal.
My cooking and food in general has been inspired first and foremost by my mother. She was an amazing cook who had to learn the hard way how to butcher meat, make her own sausage, cure and smoke her own charcuterie, when she moved from Germany to Iraq. My Dad was working in Iraq at the time and on occasion could organise a pig. Only problem was it would come as a whole slaughtered beast, and it would be left on Mum's kitchen table for her to deal with. Mum,on the other hand had grown up in Germany and worked in Switzerland where it is normal to go shopping almost everday for the food you are to consume within the next 24 hours. It was a culture shock, but Mum rose to the challenge and over the years made sausages, bacon, ham, pates and more.
This page is all about those kind of foods that I grew up with - recipes will include my mothers originals as well as my own take on some traditional recipes. I won't be focusing only on German foods though. My dad is Austrian, my parents met in Switzerland. They were married in Iraq where I was born. I grew up in South Africa, lived in England and Germany and now New Zealand. I learnt to cook curry in Durban SA from the amazing Indian community there, I do my own take on a lot of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian foods and then I make up my own as I go along at times as well.
I hope you enjoy Schloss Kiwi as much as I enjoy creating it and the recipes that go on it.