Quick healthy snack … stock up on Lucky Star sardines, and Woolworths sardines in vegetable oil, in tomato sauce and smoke flavoured.
Posh sardines on toast
Serve these, with a chilled Portuguese Vinho Verde, a lovely local sauv blanc, or go Spanish with a dry sherry, at your next poolside cocktail party.
Finely chop a small red chilli (remove seeds if you prefer less heat) and crush a large clove of garlic. Heat a little oil from the tin of sardines, add the chilli and garlic and cook over gentle heat, taking care not to burn the garlic. Once cooked, add the sardines until just warm. Toast slices of baguette, then pile the sardine mixture on top. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and a squeeze of fresh lemon.
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Catch of the day
Coco mug with stripes and sardines, R195 each, and Pebble oval dinner plate with sardine, R345, all from pret-a-pot.com
This Great Barrier Reef Fishes from Jasper & Jute’s The Deep Sea Collection. You can choose between matte paper or canvas, sized anywhere from a discreet A5 to a make-a-statement A0, and can buy unframed, or in a white, natural or black frame. From R349 from jasperandjute.co.za
Ceramic Fish from a collection from Wiid Design – Galjoen and Icefish and Angelfish manufactured by hand from earthenware ceramic, they bring a splash of emerald and cobalt and peony red to your walls. Brilliant alone, spectacular as a school. From around R4295 each from mantraliving.co.za
