Mzansi Style Cuisine

I love these township scones and when I love a dish or food item I’ll come up with different variations.  Every time I consume a food I like the product developer in me goes like “I wonder how it would taste like with this or that”……. If I was a musician we would call this a remix of [...]

It is so cold as I’m writing this post, sitting on my bedding with laptop.  My fingers are freezing and I don’t know what happened to my gloves. I keep on thinking I need to go buy a gas heater tomorrow….at least that keeps me going…. Besides being wrapped up with blankets, I keep going to [...]

I just want to share one of those random recipes you just put together without even thinking and they turn out amazing!  I’m sure you also have one of those……   It was raining in Cape Town yesterday wasn’t it?  It was just one of those days…I felt like having something stewy, spicy, quick and [...]

The lady that always does my braids, Sarah, she would encourage me to try out the food from her hometownZimbabwe.  I asked her to bring me some Matembas and she did….. Matemba are very small dried fish from Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe.  They are a good and a reasonably priced source of protein.  Zimbabweans serve [...]

Does any of the following sound appealling to you? Cozying up with a warm blanket over your shoulders, having your hands washed with a sense of ritual, having your face painted, listening to African sounds playing in the background appeal to you? Moyo is tempting you to a variety of traditional dishes from all over the continent to spice [...]

  On my first meeting with Lisa prior to the filming of the show, she spoke about her second mom and played a YouTube video of Sarah Hesselman preparing Gelifte Fish… She didn’t know she was being filmed as Lisa was using the camera on her Macbook laptop.  The video has over 10 000 hits!  [...]

  Few months ago I got an email from I Am Woman show producer, Antoinette; a part of me was excited.  On the other hand, I was thinking “Oh my goodness!”…… According to her they got to know about me from the Mail and Guardian Book of Women 2012.  I knew I had a story [...]

For my second Sasko recipe this month I’ve decided on this tea time treat, Banana & Raisin Mpunyane. Mpunyane is a sorghum bread prominent in the Pedi culture.   Some would raise eyebrows at the thought of a sorghum bread as sorghum is an ingredient known for it’s distinct flavour.  In some cultures it is known as [...]

  For the next two to three months I’ll be working in conjunction with Sasko Flour.  Each month I’ll be posting two recipes using one of their products form their range.  I don’t know about you but whenever I go shopping for flour or bake mixes I always find myself drawn to their products, especially [...]

Amadumbe, brown hairy potatoes also known as Taro potato originating from South East Asia and India….. I got to cook them for the first time (I grew up in the Eastern Cape and we don’t have Amadumbe there).  My friends from Mpumalanga and KZN are forever raving about Amadumbe and all the noise they have been making got me curious enough [...]