Fire up your stoke

Fire Up Your Stoke, a night of food and wine, is a one-night-only culinary extravaganza held in conjunction with The Ballito Pro, presented by Billabong that will take you to culinary cloud nine.

The action is set to ignite at the main festival area at Willard Beach on Wednesday night, June 29. This new version of the food and wine festival will feature fashion and amateur cooking competitions for all ages, ranging from three years old all the way up to grand-ma and grand-pa.

Mini Cooks is for the three to six-year-olds to showcase their passion and talent, creating their own sweet treats, giving street cred to the school of thought that you can have dessert before mains. The Fine Young Cooks competition is open to all budding young chefs ages seven to 13. Ten teams of two will compete in a sosatie making competition. Each team will have to create their own secret sosatie and side dish, cooked on Weber gas braais and present it to the judges who will crown the Fine Young Cooks Team of 2016. Teams are required to bring their own ingredients and assemble and cook everything on the evening.

The Ultimate Grill-off Ballito Style competition will pit teams of two against each other to create their signature dishes on Weber gas braais for the title of Ballito grill champs 2016. Dads and lads, mothers and daughters, friends or couples will team up, choose a name for their team and dress accordingly to create and present the judges with a starter and main, or main and dessert. Battle of the Ballito Burger sees local restaurants entice food lovers with their signature burger and sides, battling it out against each other to gain support from the public.

Lovers of surf films will thoroughly enjoy the screening of Matt Bromley’s new surf film, Risky Business which showcases Bromley charging the biggest, gnarliest waves in Tahiti, Hawaii, Ireland and back home in South Africa.

For the young designers looking to showcase their talents, there will be an exciting competition whereby competitors have to create garments using recycled materials. Consisting of two categories, the juniors’ section will see children designing their own garments to be modelled onstage while the professionals’ section will have young designers creating a garment for an allocated model. These garments will be judged by four professionals in the fashion industry: Ashley StaRin Eddy (Mr KZN), Tracey-Anne Buckley (Mrs KZN), Levinia Lea Naidoo (Mrs SA Finalist 2016) and Genevieve Tomkinson Daw (winner of Designer Competition 2014). There will be amazing prizes up for grabs.

Entry to Fire Up Your Stoke is free but there is a R30 fee to participate in the wine, craft beer and whisky tasting with a complimentary wine glass included. The full festival programme as well as live entertainment will run throughout the evening. Cheer on the competitors in the Battle of the Ballito Burger and roll up your sleeves to take part in the Ultimate Grill-off Ballito Style.

To enter the competitions or for more info please contact lewaine on fireupyourstoke@gmail.com.

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