Homemade chicken liver pate recipe

What you need:
1 tub of Elgin Chicken Livers
1small onion
Salt
Peper
Dollop of cream
Dollop of butter

So easy to make and the best tasting chicken pate we've ever had, didn't last long... which is always a good sign.

Fry the liver for a few minutes, then add your chopped onion. Fry until union is see-through and liver is done. Season with salt and pepper. Let cool somewhat.
Use a mixer then add your cream and butter. And voila, you're done!

Would also be nice to add some garlic, but we were out.

Tasted lovely on our homemade wholewheat bread.

Winter tree illustration

Top Ten at K&i this month

1809 was a good year

Our local Friday Market here in Muizenberg is filled with lots of good food and handmade designs. One of our favourite market stands is the vintage book section (oh, and the bar - they sell Darling brew, awesome beer). We found these amazing looking pages form an old book published by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme in 1809. Love the technical drawings and the distinctive smell of an old book... Had to buy.

Thinking and drawing outside the box

Two artists that influence our work a lot are Jean Michel Basquiat and David Carson. We never get tired of looking at or discussing their work. We always seem to find another level, hidden message, or details we didn't see before when we indulge in their work.

One page in the Innovation summit's Black Book will have a page inspired by these crazy-thinking-doing people. It's all about lateral thinking...

Upcycling as part of innovation

We love doing our bit for the planet, we do live here and we kind of like the place… Recycling is a big part of our day to day and we work hard at reducing our waste as much as we can. Our veggie waste goes into our compost, all paper, glass, metal and plastic gets recycled, and we are also keen upcycleists. Our yoghurt pots and tins gets a second life as pots for herbs, and toilet rolls goes to the local school to help build rockets and castles.

Our introduction page to the Innovation lab in the ‘Black Book’ for the SA Innovation Summit will include some upcycled words. Karls fingers were bleeding after twisting the coke Y-letter... No pain, no gain hey...

The Innovation legends

We are working on a page in the book showcasing all the Innovation legends that are going to speak at the summit. We found this image from Nuclear Physics Congress in Rome 1931, in one of the books we borrowed from the library. K&i like old books, especially books with old photographs.

The idea of an idea

 The workings of an idea based on finding the idea.

Our reading list

Some of the books we are busy reading whilst compiling the innovation summit's 'Black Book' of 2011.

Monday Morning Monster

An innovative book for the Innovation Summit

This month is all about innovation for K&i. We are working on putting together a 200 page book to accompany the South African Innovation Summit held in Johannesburg end of August. This month we will keep you up to date with our work flow on this project. Here's some initial photos of our 'brainstorming' sessions. Oh, interesting fact: Brainstorming was proposed as a method for generating ideas/problem solving, using a group technique including effective rules to be followed, by Alex Faickney Osborn in 1953 through a book called 'Applied Imagination'. Something to think about...

Illuminated orange hair