Mzansi Style Cuisine

  In Xhosa it is called Intlaphoyi or Isonka Somgub’ombona (maize meal bread). Ujeqe, as it is known in Zulu, is traditional bread made by soaking the maize meal in boiling water for a few minutes then mix it with other ingredients such as flour, yeast, sugar, salt etc.    The dough would then be wrapped [...]

What a week!  We just finished voting and now they say the world is coming to an end…..tomorrow….  I don’t know about that….but then again no one believed Noah.  While everyone is getting themselves worked up about the rapture….let’s has a look at this pumpkin and maize meal dish…. Setjetsa is a Sotho dish popular in [...]

  Remember the year 1994? Excitement in the air from young adults to the elderly…all looking forward to putting the symbol X on their ballot papers…for the first time in their lives.  Also excited at the prospect of having a black president for the first time in the history of South Africa!  I was too young [...]