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With the recent slew of public holidays, I decided to take advantage and spend some time away. This time last year I spent a few days in Prince Albert and fell in love with Karoo sunsets and fig harvesting.

So this year (our car packed with farm apparel), I was hustled out of the office, heels and all. We arrived in Robertson just in time to visit the Bon Courage wine shop where we stocked up on port, white and red muscadel, and some great chilli sauces and relishes. I couldn’t wait for dinner – Karoo oysters and delicious pieces of lamb’s liver wrapped in stomach lining, grilled to a crisp – at Clarke of the Karoo in Barrydale.

Our little farmhouse near Van Wyk’s Dorp with mud walls and apricot-kernel floors had a beautiful wood-fired oven. We hadn’t packed much food, so off we went in search of farm meat. At Stop Shop, the local convenience store (and the only one around), we stocked up on humongous homemade pork and beef sausages and some serious lamb chops.

On the way home we discovered an organic veggie supplier who had fields of peppery rocket, the fattest, shiniest brinjals, tiny tomatoes, and rows of the sweetest carrots. Not to mention the bags of fresh soft-shell almonds just picked off the tree and the just-pressed organic olive oil! It was every foodie’s heaven, and I was in the middle of it.

That night, we feasted on the biggest country loaf of bread that I’d ever made and braaied lekker porkies and lamb chops with just the right amount of crispy fat.

The next morning we gobbled up big doorstops of leftover toasted bread with cabernet grape jam – what more could a foodie want? And on our way home I still made it in time to stop off at The Route 62 Farmstall and Restaurant and the Joubert-Tradauw Alfresco Deli, 15km west of Barrydale.

I’m looking forward to dinner tonight – some of those tasty Karoo sausages we brought back with us, nicely grilled.

Happy eating

Abigail
Eat Out Editor