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Roti is an unleavened flatbread requiring minimal ingredients and equipment to make the perfect edible tool for mopping up a luscious curry. Also known as chapati, this tortilla-like flatbread was mostly served with sugar bean or kidney bean curry in my childhood home in South Africa. We did not eat …
Like Amma Used To Make It We ate Mushroom curry in the summer months more than we did any other time of the year. The reason for this was that we got our mushroom from our back yard and not the supermarket. After a thunderstorm there was nearly always a …
If I could pick a day that most reminded me of Amma’s scones it would have to be Friday. I recall Friday’s being special days in our home. It was the day that Amma would perform her weekly scrubs around the house, cleaning everything from the fridge to the kitchen …
Like Amma Used To Make It Brinjal curry is very special to me, not only was it the first curry I ever cooked, but it is also my favorite vegetable curry second only to Green Beans. I especially loved Amma’s Brinjal Curry, her special recipe which contained boiled eggs. I …
Three o’ clock was time tea!If you are a South African of Indentured Indian descent then you will have had this form of ‘high tea’ at some point or the other. Though plainly buttered bread and black tea may sound like something out of prison menu it is surprisingly quite …
Semolina and Condensed Milk Gulab Jamun Finding a gulab jamun (Gulam Jambo) with semolina recipe was like finding a needle in a haystack. My sister was visiting last weekend, I hadn’t seen her in over a year so wanted to make plenty of homemade treats our mother used to make…or …