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title: "What’s cooking today: Cheesy Biltong Pâté"
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# What’s cooking today: Cheesy Biltong Pâté

> Stoep sitting requires snacks, something simple such as a pâté that can be spread on warm bread.

By Tony Jackman · Published 7 October 2022, 14:30 SAST · Updated 4 October 2022, 12:05 SAST

## Content

We gather on our stoeps, with our friends or neighbours popping in to kuier, and we tell stories of the land and the sky, of the trees and the creatures that scurry among the karoobossies.

Somebody will make a pâté, and somebody will bake something to go with it. Di may bake a loaf of her wonderful [herbed buttermilk bread](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-15-lockdown-recipe-of-the-day-herbed-buttermilk-bread/).

**Ingredients**

150 g full fat cream cheese

250 g full fat mascarpone

½ cup Klein River artisanal cheese

160 g grated Cheddar cheese

60 g fine biltong dust (Kwando)

1 Tbsp Dijon mustard

2 spring onions, finely chopped

White pepper

Salt

**Method**

Combine all ingredients in a sturdy bowl and mix them with an equally sturdy wooden or metal spoon. It will be a thick, ungiving mix, which makes for a good, spreadable pâté. It can be refrigerated for two to three days. **DM/TGIFood**

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