Thursday 26 December 2013

25 December 2013

Look what Peter brought me from our garden. Our first striped beetroot.

This beetroot is called   Bietola da Orto   ... Tonda di Chiaggio

It reminds me of Christmas and Easter.   Jesus's blood washed our sins away to have a white heart !





The bloody Baboons had a festive Christmas lunch in our home while we went to have lunch at the Diaz Beach Hotel where Sinè and Terri were on duty.  Just look what awaited us when we came home at 16h00.
A mixed grill of:  Poo and pee, fruit buns, rusks, Panetonne, fruit, veggies, plants, flour chips, and you name it !!!


O no ... Peter's veggie garden has been totally destroyed ... all the different kinds of cabbages, cauliflowers, beets, pumpkins, potatoes, marrows, corn,  jam squashes and melons ... gone. The chicken coup wire fence torn open (thank God the chickens and little baby chick is ok). IT must have been a troop of baboons and not just the lonely outcast one that usually visit us. What a disappointment it is to Peter who really is into his gardening! Ai jaai jaai !

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Sunday 10 November 2013


SUID-KAAP FYNPROEWERS-GILDE AFSLUITING 7 NOV 2013





Saturday 9 November 2013

7 Nov 2013
I was invited as a guest speaker by the South Cape Fynproewers, for their end of the year function. Tiaan from Kokkedoor, demonstrated the dishes that we could savour. 300 people attended the function and I had a ball while doing my speech.  The food was delicious!  I was really treated as a celebrity (which I am NOT), but enjoyed the function immensely !

OLE !


Monday 14 October 2013

KOKKE-KUIKEN KLASSE BEGIN OP 26 OKTOBER OM 14H00.
JIPPIE  !!!

Friday 9 August 2013

'n Heerlike Vrouedag saam met Francois Ferreira!  Brode demonstrasie en gebak ten bate van SANCA.  Die dames was lekker spontaan, het lekker aan die brode met volstuis-, Olyf- en biltong-patees asook marmelade- pruim- en koejawel-konfyt gesmul.

Vrolikheid op Vrouedag, 8 Aug. 2013


Die Kitke deeg het reeds gerys en die Focaccia en Bagel deeg gaan nou rys.


Die spieëel van die dem tafel wasem op agv die stoom van die water waarin die Begels kook.  Ek maak toe maar 'n plan en gebruik 'n vadoek om dit weg te waai, sodat die dames in die pot kon sien!


Kitke, bagels en focaccia brode

Kyk net hoe gryp die dame na die bagel !

Ek hou 'n vry vorm en Francois die tradisionele gevormde focaccia vas.  Bo-op is roosmaryn en groen pimento olywe

Die brode wat ons gebak het was met 'n vraag-antwoord gewen en die dames is almal dol gelukkig en het heerlik aan die brode op die tafel geëet.

Finale getalle van Eisteddfod uitslae
Punte-gradering is soos volg:
A++ :      90% en hoër   (dubbel-goud)
A+   :        85 - 89%        (goud)
A     :        80 - 84%        (goud)
B+     :       75 - 79%        (silwer)
B     :        70 - 74%        (silwer)
C     :        69% en laer   (rooi)



B
B +
A
A +
A ++
Tot
TOTAAL
4
12
38
41
95

Thursday 8 August 2013

Ek gaan môre ogg. (8 Aug. Vrouedag) saam met Francois Ferreira 'n brood demonstrasie doen vir CANSA en vlg. Sat (17 Aug) gaan ek Checkers se boerewors kompetisie in Oudtshoorn beoordeel.  Genadiglik weg van al die Eisteddfod frustrasies!
Baai tot ander dag.

Lekker rus die naweek.

Sunday 4 August 2013

4 Aug 2013

I am very busy with my drama students participating at the Eisteddfod.  The past week 48 items was adjudicated.  Results so far:

A++ : 90% en hoër  (dubbel-goud)
A+ :    85 - 89%        (goud)
A :      80 - 84%        (goud)
B :      70 - 79%        (silwer)
C :      69% en laer   (rooi)


B
B -
B +
A
A +
A ++
Tot
Maandag
29/7/13




2

4

6

12
Dinsdag
30/7/13



1

1

4

2

8
Woensdag
31/7/13




2

3

6

11
Donderdag
1/8/13



1

3

4

9

17


This week the rest will be adjudicated.

Please go and have a look at this year 8 student of mine's monologue.  She portrays a young girl who is brain damaged after a car accident.... go to Drama page orwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxUaCiiY6s .

Also have a look under All things food.  Sinè made me a wonderful omelet of left over BBQ chicken,  mushrooms and spring onions.

It is very dry for this time of the year, and we even had temperatures of 29 and 30!  The registration for cars in George is CAW ... which are always referred to as ... Cold And Wet.  This year is does not seem to be of any significance! 

Go well my friend!

Thursday 18 July 2013

EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES
Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put
the salt on or not.
A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.
Rice was a milk pudding, and never, ever part of our dinner.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being
white gold.
Prunes were medicinal.
Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, it was called cattle
feed.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture
of a real one.
Water came out of the tap, if someone had suggested bottling it and
charging more than petrol for it they would have become a laughing
stock.

The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties ..
was elbows!

Sunday 14 July 2013

Click on "Any thing food" if you are interested in a recipe for Chicken with yoghurt or Risotto rice.
Buon Appetito !!!

Friday 12 July 2013

Gerookte aartappelslaai resep

Kry hierdie wonderlike resep onder die 'Kokkedoor Kompetisie' afdeling.

Thursday 11 July 2013

Heerlike pastaslaai met wortels, uie en rosyne onder 'All things Food' / Delicious pasta salad with carrots, onion and raisins in 'All things Food'
Aangesien ek Meisie Dixon se Sousbone resep met julle gedeel het, plaas ek graag ons dogter, Sinè Swanepoel, se ode wat sy aan Meisie opgedra het met haar afsterwe. 

Ode aan Meisie Dixon
(Al is ek net haar kleinniggie, was sy ‘n ouma vir my.  Sinè Swanepoel)

Sop en vetkoek op ‘n Vrydag
Sousbone-geur in April
Koffie-tjops in Desember
… was my ouma se treat vir ons.

Marmite altyd daar vir my midnight snack
‘n Ekstra hoenderboudjie na ‘n dag by die see
‘n sigaret of twee, want ek het alweer myne vergeet
… was my ouma se treat aan my.

Kondensmelk-koffie
Vars gebakte brood se korsie
Nog ‘n wiskey
… was my ouma se reël vir vakansies.

‘n Snoekbraai ‘n jaar
Met;  “Wie het my patat gesteel”
‘n toast broodjie wat nooit geëet word nie
… was ouma se vakasie vir die jaar.

Die weggesteekte koekie-blik
Wat altyd op my skoot beland
Met ‘n glas vars volroom melk
… en ‘n smile van “Dis ons geheim”.

My ouma was ‘n goeie mens
Maar moeilik om te verstaan
Maar altyd met nog ‘n plekkie
… Vir ‘n liefie in haar hart.

My ouma kan nie daar wees vir my troue nie
Maar sy weet, at last, is ek op die regte pad
Sy weet ek is gelukkig
… En dit is wat sy sou hê.

Ek is lief vir ouma
Nou en vir altyd
En ek is happy dat sy nou in
… Rus en vrede kan bly.
Sondag, 4 Maart 2012

Wednesday 10 July 2013

Indien jy sou wou, kyk onder "All things food" vir 'n SOUSBONE resep.
My oorlede niggie, Meisie Dixon, het dit vir my so leer maak.

 2 ure gelede 

Too bizarre for words: This "thing" was found at The Crags outside Plett yesterday morning and has left locals baffled. An autopsy is being done at Crags Vet Clinic. We will have the full story in The Herald tomorrow. 


I am so curious to know what this is !!!  ???    !!!

Tuesday 9 July 2013

Click the "ALL   THINGS  FOOD" for new recipes!

GOEIE Môre  !!!  GOOD MORNING  !!!




Friday 28 June 2013

My omelette

How blessed can one women be? I spoiled myself today by making a puffed omelette filled with pastrami and cheddar cheese on a slice of Ciabatta smeared with a Hollandaise sauce ...  and eating it while watching Medea's Witness Protection on Mnet. Thank you Lord for small mercies!

Open omelette

 

Folded omelette

Seperate two eggs.
Beat egg whites to stiff peak stage.
Beat egg yellows a bit.
Fold the yellows into the egg whites.

Place a nob of butter in a pan ... medium heat.
Put omelette mix in pan and place a lid on the pan.
When the omelet has puffed up (it is amazing to see this happen ... like a souffle) add salt, pepper and any meat pieces e.g. ham or pastrami, and great cheddar cheese over it.
Place lid on again until the cheese has melted.

Place on a slice of bread smeared with butter or cream cheese or Hollandaise sauce ....  and fold over.
Yummy !

Tuesday 25 June 2013

This is the first Broccoli harvested from our
winter garden.

Monday 24 June 2013



A few photos of my Kokkedoor, reality cooking program, done during Feb and March 2013.


The 20 Kokkedoor finalists the day before the competition
started  ... in front of the museum.

On our way to the Kokkedoor kitchen. It was taken in
Feb. and March . . . the broadcasting started in April.

The long dooming table where we were judged, the
winner announced and the day’s cut was made.

An interview on Eden FM Radio about my
participation on Kokkedoor.

Saturday 22 June 2013

Betottled

Betotteld.  Ja betotteld, dit is wat ek is.  Die Afrikaanse spellys ken nie die woord nie, maar ek weet dit is wat ek is.

G'n wonder nie.  Toe ek gebore is, was my ma in haar oorgangsjare, my pa het 'n affêre aangehad met 'n ander vrou en my broer was al 14 jaar oud.  In my regterhand is hoeka die Mongoolse vou, soos wat 'n Downsie het.  My oë is darem gewoonweg ovaal en was groot toe ek jonk was, maar nou met die ouderdom het hulle al begin hang en krimp.   My verstand is darem ook oukei en ek het darem redelik op skool gedoen en ook in my studies daarna.

Wag, terug na die betottelheid.  Kyk, die eerste ding wat ek kan onthou is van daai tyd toe ek nog in my kot geslaap het.   Dit was voor ek twee geword het en voor ons van Kaapstad na Odendaalsrus in die destydse Vrystaat, getrek het.

Die kot storie.  Daar lê ek in my kot.  My ma en pa is in my kamer en my broer loer om die kamerdeur se kosyn.  Daar is egter ook 'n man wat ek glad nie ken nie, in die kamer.  Later sou ek hoor hulle praat van hom as 'n Slams.  Nou, vir die van julle wat nie weet nie, 'n Slams in die vyftigerjare, was 'n Kaapse Maleise man wat kon toor.  Sien die ding werk nou so.  My pa was mos getoor deur die ander vrou met wie hy die affêre gehad het.  Die dat hy mos my ma  met haar verneuk het.  Nou, die Slams in my kamer moet keer dat die affêre-vrou se toorgoed  nie vir my kwaad aandoen nie, en sommer ook om my pa los te maak van die affêre-vrou se  rokpante.

Ewentewel.  Hier staan die Slams toe in my kamer, met 'n hoenderhaan.  'n Pragtige ding met bloedrooi maanhaarvere om sy nek en 'n lyf wat glim van die swartheid.   Die Slams babbel in vreemde tale, sprinkel goeters oor my kot en ruk en pluk aan die haan, en daar skop die haan stokstyf en slaat op die grond neer.  Vir my pa het die haan gehelp, want hy was toe nie meer 'n haan by sy affêre-vrou nie.  En soos ek reeds gesê het, ons trek toe net daarna Odendaalsrus toe.

Maar, my betottelheid is nie oor nie.  O nee!   In Odendaalsrus bly ons eers in 'n huurhuis waarvan die krake in die mure so groot is dat daai yskoue winterwindjie snags deur murg en been sny, en die waterkrane soggens stokstyf toe verys is.  Snaakse plek, die Vrystaat. In die Kaap het die water altyd uit die krane geloop as jy dit oopdraai.

In elk geval.  Ons trek toe later na 'n lekker huis en ek kry sowaar 'n hok met hoenders.  En ja, ook met 'n beneukte haan onder die henne.  As die bleddie haan uit die hok ontsnap het, het hy my niggies altyd aan die hakskene gebyt dat die bloed loop.  My het hy nooit gepik nie, seker omdat ek 'n geskiedenis met 'n hoender het en boonop betotteld is.

Laat ek jou gou 'n storietjie van die einste haan vertel.  Sien, my pa werk mos toe vir AVBOB.  Dit is die naam van die besigheid wat dooie mense begrawe. 

Odendaalsrus se amateur toneelverenging wil toe op 'n keer die grasmatte leen wat mens so om die graf gooi sodat dit mooi lyk en ook sodat die begrafnisgangers darem nou nie so in die stof staan nie, al word die woorde, Van stof is jy gemaak en tot stof sal jy terugkeer, by die graf gesê.  "Nee", sê my pa, hy kan nie die matte vir hulle leen nie.  Dit is mos AVBOB s'n en netnou kom die matte iets oor en dan is my pa in die moeilikheid by hoofkantoor.   Lang storie kort.  Met die dat die kunste diep in ons hele familie se bloed loop, kom my pa toe met die toneelvereniging mense ooreen dat hulle elke aand na die opvoering die matte sal terugbring, sodat dit deur die dag daar by AVBOB is, net vir ingeval een van die base daar aankom.

So gesê, so gemaak.   Die aand na die eerste opvoering van die toneelstuk, is ek en my ma en my pa al in die bed, toe daar aan die agterdeur gehamer word.  Jislaaik, ons skrik ons in ons maai en ek raak sommer nog meer betotteld.  Laat ek net gou eers vir jou die scenario van ons agterplaas skets.

Die AVBOB kantoor en huis is aan mekaar gebou.  Links van die kantoor is die inrit na die agterplaas met 'n reuse sirkel in die middel, sodat die lykswaens kan inry, om die sirkel ry en dan weer uit die agterplaas uit kan ry en die lykstoet na die kerk en die begraafplaas kan lei.  Links agter in die hoek van die erf is die lykshuis.   Regs in die ander hoek is die kistestoor, waar die matte en kiste en kranse gestoor word en die lykswaens parkeer word. Tussen die lykhuis links, en die kistestoor regs, is my hoenderhok.

Wat die arme akteurs nie geweet het nie, is dat wanneer 'n kar se ligte op die hoenderhok val, die hoenderhaan eers sy vlerke so flap-flap, flap-flap, flap-flap, en dan so 'n hees kraai gee.   Met die dat die akteurs laatnag inry en om die sirkel kom, val die bakkie se ligte op die hoenderhok, en teen die tyd dat hulle stop en uitklim, is die hoenderhaan aan die vlerke flap-flap-flap.  Hulle dog natuurlik dit is 'n spook, en sit die stukke in na ons huis se agterdeur.  Met die gehamer aan die agterdeur, skrik my pa hom ook des dinges en amper in die toestand van 'n lyk in. Jy moet weet dit was in die sestigerjare en die opstande begin lekker lewendig word daar in die Vrystaat.  My pa gryp inderhaas sy grys kamerjas en maak die deur oop sonder om die lig aan te sit.  Die arme akteurs skrik hulle byna in 'n koma,  vlieg om terug na die bakkie, want hulle dink die grys ding is nog 'n spook.   Met die dat hulle terug by hulle bakkie kom, is die haan toe net besig met sy hees kraai.

Nodeloos om te sê,  my ma moes die akteurs suikerwater injaag, en ons het lank nadat die matte gebêre is, nog in die vroeë oggendure in ons beddens lê en giggel.

En wragtag, sal daar nie weer vandag, vyftig jaar later, by my betottelde werk, (ek werk by 'n psigiater) 'n pasiënt my so bekyk en sê: "Jy lyk die hoender in.  Ek sien dit in jou oë."  En ek dink so by myself.  Ja, dit is die betottelheid in my wat die ou raaksien.  Het ek dan hoeka nie hoenderpote en snaakse voëls op een van my lapverf artikels geverf nie?

Ten slotte.  Voor die deelname aan die realiteitsprogram, Kokkedoor, was ek betotteld agv 'n hoender in my jeugdae ... en toe word ek 'n KokkeHEN tydens die deelname  ...  nou wonder ek, gaan ek nog eendag 'n KokkeDOOR word?

Ek hoop jy het my skrywe geniet.  Mooi loop.
It is school holiday and I plan to read all my books that I did not have time to read during the first two quarters of this year.  The first quarter was occupied with my participation as a Kokkedoor and the 2nd own was full of research for my drama students to find suitable texts for their Eisteddfod participation.  I have 94 entries!  It is nice to just have no time limits at the moment!

Tuesday 18 June 2013

I have had the most wonderful opportunity to judge little kiddies between 5 and 11 years of ages, salad competition in Patensie and also shared a demonstration with Marinda Engelbrecht (fellow Kokkedoor contestant.  I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and Peter bought lots of different citrus trees for our garden.



I was also fortunate to play "go for" for Francois Ferreira
at his demo about  Pont Pomegranate products!

Thursday 13 June 2013

March - May 2013

I wanted to start with this little life’s truth.  I really hold my friends and family dearly in my heart.  Know that you are on my diary list, because I chose you and you accepted to receive it and therefor returned your acceptance of me for whom I am, which I appreciate much.

By the time you receive my March diary, Kokkedoor … roughly translated … means the main cock, the master of the roosters, the best of its kind … (the nostalgic South African reality food program) is canned and broadcasting will start 11 April, on the KykNet channel. I am not supposed to say anything about the program until the last episode was broadcasted, but for those overseas … I lasted for 2 of the 4 weeks of the competition.  It was physical and emotional very demanding, but I shall never forget the food journey and also my personal journal.  I am glad that I did participate, but NEVER again.  Been there, done it and have the APRON to prove it!


You can watch the little introduction inset of me that was broadcasted on tv on: http://kyknet.dstv.com/2013/03/10/ontmoet-die-20-kokkedoor-kokke/ and just click on my name.


The 10 nostalgic home cooks with the black aprons and the 10 chefs with the white aprons.  My partners were:  the guy in the front row in the maroon t-shirt (Rendil, last 2 challenges and the lady next to me (Ida, first two team challenges).

* * *

Sinè and Terri are still working at the Diaz Hotel in Mosselbay and Peter’s practise is still going strong.   There is also a new pharmaceutical study in the pipeline and I shall do the clinical part of it e.g. ECGs, phlebotomy, blood pressures etc. I do not want to do the coordinator part of the study again, as it is too much paper work. My drama classes will only commence in April after the school holidays. 

We are going to Oudtshoorn for the KKNK (Little Karoo National Cultural festival) from 29 March until 6 April. Peter booked for several drama- and musical performances.  It will be a nice recovering time after the stress of partaking in the TV show.

Peter’s mum is in a much better spirit and has less pain after her neck surgery. She has more movement in her arms. The spaces between her neck vertebrae were widened, with the result that the nerves are less pinched.
Lots of love.


APRIL and almost May, are history.  So here is an update:

I "made" 5 of the challenges!  One on my own and two with two different chefs as partners.  The fourth one was a bbq and my chef partner and I won!  The prizes were: Scanpan knives (the same ones used by Masterschef Australia), a Weber bbq, and R5000 worth Walker bay spices.  I will receive it next week.  I was also  chosen to be part of the final challenge to announce the winning couple ... the KOKKEDOOR team (nostalgic cook and professional chef) ... and was part of the winning team.  So I will feature in 7 of the 13 episodes.   Episode 7 was just broadcasted last week.  So it was an emotional en physical experience in the high forties degree Karoo town (Prince Albert), but well worth it and something to tick off the bucket list.  But never again!.  Been there and done that and have the apron, books and prizes to proof it.

Outcome of Kokkedoor: I was on our local radio station on the 24th of May re my Kokkedoor experience, I adjudicated a potjiekos competition in April, (food made in an iron pot on the coals of a fire),  there was two newspaper articles of me and Sinè and I will do an Italian food demonstration in Prince Albert in October. We will be using my Sicilian friend from Perth, Mary’s, recipes. I chose the theme because it was an nostalgic food experience learning different  dishes from her and making tomato sauce to store for the whole year in a copper kettle in the January heat in Perth!  Prince Albert does not have an Italian restaurant, but it has tomatoes and the heat!

To my Afrikaans friends and family:  Here is the article that was published in the Huisgenoot:  http://huisgenoot.com/fokus/trudie-oor-haar-kokkedoor-ervaring/


What an enjoyable afternoon spent at Eden FM. Front (from left to right):Gerald (Mount View Media),
Rejoice Melane (SACA) and me. Back: Braam (Eden FM), Graham Donet (SACA), and Fraincois Ferreira.
We spoke about eating out and Kokkedoor!

And oh yes, I won these books on LitNet on their Mothers day competition!
So now I am a celebrity !!  What a bloody joke, I am still me with all my shortages… what nonsense, I am still the same old me!

Being busy with the South African culinary part of our culture, I had to spark to come up to date to find work for my 43 drama student to enrol for the Eisteddfod.  O my goodness, I worked my fingers to the bone looking through books and Googling, trying to find appropriate work to match each child’s ability and personality.  Most of them are doing 3 or 4 pieces … so do your arithmetic, I had to come up with 4 pieces per child per category; poetry, prose, (first two un-dramatized and dramatized) and monologue) to choose from!  I am glad to say, I could enrol them at the end of May!  I teach on Mo, Tue, Thursdays and Fridays afternoons from 14h00 untill 19h00.
Go well my friends.  May God bless you abundantly.