The Roasted Dad Expresso Show braai segment with Woolworths
Cooking two side dishes on live TV
I was back on Expresso, running the Woolworths braai segment with Graeme Richards. Live TV is not easy. The segment was incredibly quick, and I had no idea how it came across, but I hope it will encourage fellow South Africans to start braaing again now that it’s spring.
Woolworths has a great range for on the braai: Asian zing-BBQ marinated chicken thigh kebabs and Southern smoky BBQ beef ribs. I cooked both on the Everdure Cube 360, which is a portable charcoal braai. I also prepared two sides with it: a blood orange, grapefruit and bocconcini salad and charred honey-glazed carrots and parsnips with whipped feta hummus side dish.
You can watch the full Expresso Show from 28 February 2024 below:
About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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