Mr #FillUpTheDome

31 October 2015 history will be made as 20 000 people are expected to #FillUpTheDome. Cassper Nyovest the Phumakimi rapper has made a bet to fill up the dome.  He honestly has made it

A healthy lifestyle

(Dr. Robert Axelrad, 2013)

It is difficult to have a healthy lifestyle, if you are surrounded by people who love their food.

Oily food fatty food might seem as an option when you still young, but think about the future.

When you are in your early 20s and you want a sexy bikini body but all the oily food never gave you a chance.

People should start to consider how they would like to look in 5-6 years down the line

Eating healthy food does not stop you from any delicious meals; you cans still have your delicious foods that are healthy and not oily.

Eat your vegetables; drink a lot of water and most important exercise regularly.

Here are my healthy food alphabets:

A=Apple  B= Broccoli  C=Carrot  D= Diet  E=Eggs  F= Falafel  G=Grapes   H= Hotcakes   I= Iceberg lettuces   J=Juice K=Kale  L=Lettuce  M=Muffins  N=Nuts  O=Orange P=Pineapple  Q=Quince  R=Rice  S=Strawberry  T= Tomato U=unsaturated fats  V=Veggie burgers  W=waffle  X=xanthan Y= yum   Z=zucchini

MOGODU (aka tripe)

Mogodu is one of black South African meals cooked usually for weddings, funerals, graduations party. Basically mogodu is popular amongst the black South African culture. 

It might seem "euwwww" but it very delicious if cooked by the right people. Mogodu is usually cooked in a big pot which black people refer to it as "Pitsa ya maoto ama three (three legged pot).
It takes time to cook mogodu, proximately six to eight hours. First you need to make sure it is properly washed and socked into water for two hours. You should try and cook the perfect African meal mogodu. 
To find out on how to make mogodu follow the link below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZH5rP1qgLU

Peruvian Triple Sandwiches

I love eggs, but am tired of having the same kind of eggs either scrambled or boiled eggs with bread and butter.

I enjoy cooking so I search for a few ideas on enjoying my eggs with the usual recipes
I found a website on eggs called http://www.eggs.ca/recipes/peruvian-triple-sandwiches. This website has fun and beautiful ideas on how to makes exciting egg sandwiches.

I found interest in Peruvian Triple Sandwiches from the website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

1/4 cup (60 mL)mayonnaise

8 slices white sandwich bread, crusts removed

1 large ripe avocado

1 vine ripened tomato, sliced

1/2 tsp (2.5 mL)each salt and pepper, divided

4 eggs

 

Instructions

 

Step 1: Place eggs in single layer in saucepan. Cover, by 1-inch (2.5) cm, with cold water. Set pan over high heat and bring water to rolling boil. Place tight-fitting lid on pan and remove from heat. Let stand for 6 minutes. Drain water and place eggs under cold running water for 1 minute or until cool enough to handle. Peel and slice each egg.

 

Step 2: Spread thin layer of mayonnaise on one side of each slice of bread. Divide avocado evenly over 2 pieces of bread; season with some salt and pepper. Top avocado with a piece of bread, mayonnaise side up. Divide tomato evenly over the 2 pieces of bread; season with some salt and pepper.

Step 3: Top tomato with a third piece of bread; mayo side up. Divide sliced eggs evenly over the 2 pieces of bread; season with remaining salt and pepper. Top with the last piece of bread; mayo side down. Cut each sandwich in half to make 4 portions.

 

 

 

Breakfast in bed

They say "the easiest way to your man's heart is through his stomach". An easy and quick breakfast meal while his still dreaming about you in the morning is to prepare something that will give him some energy to start of his day with a full stomach. Nothing hectic and nothing that will consume your time. 

Easy,simple and 4 words.

• Eggs
• Chakalaka
• Boer wors

Ladies do not just leave the food on the kitchen counter for him to get them there when he wakes up, take them to your room, kiss him good morning and serve your man. Trust me you will get all his attention after that. 

Dumpling

You know what makes me happy about being home. Waking up to a bowl covered with a blanket, and guess what the excitement is, my mom is preparing dumpling for our Sunday lunch. Nothing beats warm, sweet and delicious dumpling on a Sunday afternoon.

The recipe for dumpling:
 Serves 5-6 people

575ml (2¼ cup) cake flour

250ml (1 cup) warm water

5ml (1tsp) instant dry yeast

5ml salt

10ml (2 tsp) sugar

Step by step guide:

1. Sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl.
2. Add water and knead.  Do not add more water if it looks dry, just continue kneading until combined.
3. Cover the dough and let it rest at a warm place for about 30-45 minutes.
4. Make round balls the size of a golf ball.

Leave it on the stove for 2-3 hours. To make sure that it is properly cooked inside, use a fork and press the inside of the dumpling. Easy, try it and enjoy your beautiful Sunday. 

Remember to add some vegetables, beef stew or lamb stew to make the perfect Sunday lunch for you and your family. 

SHIBA'S TABLE

Siba Mtongana is a woman located in Cape Town who enjoys cooking for her family, friends from church and girl friend. Siba has her own television show on Food Network Channel. Her best ingredients are found on www.foodnetwork.co.uk

Siba Mtongana
 

One of my favorite recipes by Siba is her Sunday Trifle. The sweet tooth I have, made me fall inlove with the Trifile the minute I saw her making it.
Here are the ingredients  from Cooking channel website: http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/siba-mtongana/sibas-sunday-trifle.html

Total Time to make 55 Minutes

Siba's Sunday Trifle
 

BERRY SAUCE:

• 400 grams (14 ounces) mixed frozen berries
• 120 grams (4 ounces) caster sugar ( superfine sugar)

• Grated zest of 1 lemon

LAYERS:

• 500 grams (18 ounces) cream cheese
• 1 liter (4 1/4 cups) strawberry yoghurt
• 1 large Swiss roll ( jelly roll), cut into thin slices
• 1 liter (4 1/4 cups) custard

• 250 grams (9 ounces) fresh whole raspberries
• 250 grams (9 ounces) fresh strawberries, quartered
• Fresh mint leaves, for garnis

Directions

For the berry sauce: Place the frozen berries in a medium saucepan and heat for a few minutes until they soften, crushing them with the fork or spoon. Add the sugar, lemon zest and 1/4 cup water and cook until thickened and reduced, for a further 5 minutes. Set aside and cool.

For the layers: Whisk the cream cheese until soft and smooth in a mixing dish. Add the yoghurt a little at a time, beating well after each addition to prevent any lumps from forming. Continue until all the yoghurt is mixed in with the cream cheese.

 

I really want to try this. You should also consider trying it. It looks yummy

Clean eating

Because summer bodies are made in winter.
Eating healthy food is one of the best ways to start working on your summer body.
It first starts of as a difficult mission but once you get used to the food plan, it will seem easier and better.
The healthier your meals, the more you can get healthier and be a regular health food eater.
Keep your meals simple and easy to make.

Easy ingredients:

•  Lettuce
• Feta-cheese 
• Boiled eggs
• Tomato 
• Avocado

Try it you will surely love it.

Lunch is served

Porridge and green tea

I always enjoy my breakfast with Brown porridge, and a cup of green tea and a slice of lemon. I actually find brown porridge healthy and appropriate to eat if you are trying to lose some weight. My cup of green tea is a recommendation I got from a friend to use, if I want to lose weight and the lemon is to just add some taste to the green tea because it does not taste that nice. You can also buy your brown maize meal at any grocery store.

I bought the slim tea at pick ‘n pay. It’s easy to make.

·         Boil hot water

·         Add your teabag

·         Stare for five minute

Than add your lemon to add some sweetening to your  tea

SUSHI

Lin,T.2013. How to make simple and delicious sushi. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRL18LvVyo. Accessed 13 October 2014

Easy Mix Muffins

Ever since I have been introduced to the Easy-mix muffins. I enjoy baking. This is easy and it does not require two hours or less.

Easy-mix muffins serves for four people atleast. One packet of the Easy-mix flour makes twelve muffins.

Easy-mix

 Easy-mix is available in vanilla, bran, chocolate and chocolate-mint flavors
Ingredients

• 2 Eggs
• Easy mix
• Milk
• 2 cups of water

Directions

1. Add your two eggs and water in the same bowl
2. Pour your easy-mix flour in another bowl
3. Mix water and eggs
4. power them in the same bowl with the easy-mix flour
5. Add a cup of milk
6. pre-heat oven at 120 degrees before using
7. Put butter on your muffin pun, for your muffins not to stick onto the pan
8. Put the muffins in the oven for 10 minutes before checking them
9. After 10 minutes check again if they are properly cooked
10. After 25 minutes you can take the muffins out
11. They are ready to be served

I usually add some ultra-mel to the muffins when eating them
The easy-mix is available at Pick 'n Pay or any other grocery store

Banana Bread

Eloise,2014

• Prep time: 10 minutes
• Cook time: 1 hour
• Yield: Makes one loaf.

 

 

No need for a mixer for this recipe! Clean-up is easy too, if you want, you can mix everything in one bowl.

The best bananas to use for banana bread are those that are over-ripe. The yellow peels should be at least half browned, and the bananas inside  squishy and browning.

                       

Ingredients

• 2-3 very ripe bananas, peeled
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 cup of sugar (can easily use 3/4 cup, or drop it down to 1/2 cup if you want it less sweet)
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

Method

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C), and butter a 4x8-inch loaf pan.
• In a mixing bowl, mash the ripe bananas with a fork until smooth. Stir the melted butter into the mashed bananas.
• Mix in the baking soda and salt. Stir in the sugar, beaten egg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the flour.
• Pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes (check at 50 minutes) at 350°F (175°C), or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool completely on a rack. Remove the banana bread from the pan. Slice and serve. (A bread knife helps to make slices that aren't crumbly.)

 

 

  

TASH'S

One the 22nd of June I went to celebrate a friend's birthday celebration. My friends recommended we go to a restaurant called Tash's. I really did not know the way their food taste or even how the restaurant looks. I went onto the Internet and did some research on the restaurant to find out the kind of food they sold at their store. http://www.tashascafe.com/.

The only places I know I can get Tash's in Gauteng is Brooklyn and Rosebank. I really enjoyed the food. They have sandwiches, salads, meat, sushi and alcohol.

 I would recommend Tash's for dates with friends or your partner.

Here is the website menu for Tash's Melrose Arch
https://www.zomato.com/johannesburg/tashas-melrose-arch/menu#tabtop

How to Make No Bake Cheese Cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sESIhbRdhIQ

Healthy living

You are what you put in your mouth!
Sometimes what you think is good for your health might not be.
Your try something new. You should try something new.
Something that you never thought you would put in your mouth

 4 easy steps
All you need is

• fried fish
• butternut
• half a lemon 
• stir fries.

This will take an hour and 30 minutes to prepare the whole meal. Avoid using too much oil. Try to keep your meals healthy at all times 

Chocolate Cookies

Cookies are my favorites.I enjoy baking them  especially when I am bored or craving cookies.
It is easy and quick takes 30-40 minutes to bake chocolate cookies. With a cup of coffee or a glass of milk
Indigence: Serving 8-10 people

1.  Sunflour
2.  Baking powered 
3. Sugar (this depends on you)
4. 500g of RAMA butter
5. 2 eggs 
6. A teaspoon of vanilla-essence 
7. Chocolate

Step by step guide:

1. Pour eight cups of sunflour  in a bowl
2. Add  eight teaspoons of baking powered
3. Add 2 cups of sugar 
4. Mix that in one bowl
5. Melt the butter in your microwave for 2 minutes
6. Pour the  butter into your the bowl
7. Add two eggs and vanilla-essence in one bowl
8. Mix it all up
9. Pour the mixture into the same bowl with the sunflour, sugar and baking powered
10. Preheat the oven at 120
11. Melt the chocolate and add it to the bowl as well
12. Put butter on the pans 
13. Put the cookies on the pan and put them in the over for 20-30 minutes

    

     By Rdsmith4, CC-BY-SA-2.5, wikimedia commons

Nigerian Fried Rice

Available : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVET0EKNkSQ

CARLO'S BALERY

Carlo's Bakery has been introduced to everyone one television with the famous show Cake Boss. The bakery started in 1910 by a father who wanted to provide to his four children, yet leaving the legacy to his son,daughters and wife.

Kimi,2013

Carlos's Bakery is now owned by the family but the "Cake Boss" is Buddy Valastro. Buddy is a family man regardless of all the hard work he puts in for his family.

(Brides,2013)

Carol's Bakery is located in New Jersey, where they have more than a thousand customers. Carlo's Bakery is expanding their business as they will be opening a new store where they will be delivering their cakes, cupcakes and pies all over the country.

Carlo's Bakery is growing and will be left to the next generation.

According to the Time Toast website these are some facts about Buddy Valastro's life:

• 03 May 1997 Buddy was born
• 03 March 1983, Buddy went to work for his father at the bakery
• 03 March 1989, Buddy found family as important . As when he was a child in was raised in a united family.
• 03 March 1991, Buddy started working more and more through his year and he leaned recipes
• 03 March 1992, Buddy's father took him to Sicily
• 03 March 1999, Buddy got his drivers test and his dad told him he had cancer
• 20 March 1999 Buddy's father passed away

Buddy was very close to his dad as he made him who he is today, the baking and recipes he made were things that his dad made him learn.

Bellago Restaurant

Bellago Restaurant is located on the South of Johannesburg. They serve Italian, Grills, Sushi and Bistro.

Bellago Restaurant is open seven days a week, but on Sundays it closes earlier.

According to dinning-out

Bellagio's new location (with the added bonus of secure parking right outside the door) is proving to be very popular judging by the full tables for both lunch and evening trade. The interior comprises two inter leading seating areas - one houses the well stocked bar with its fine selection of local as well as imported wines, and the other the sushi counter. There is a wrap around outside area with plenty of umbrellas to ensure shady seating for alfresco dining throughout the day.
	The eye catching blue and white striped theme is visible throughout from the cushions and blinds to the chic restroom walls, and even the waiters are smartly attired in crisp blue and white striped shirts. The overall impression is that the decor seamlessly blends with the wooden floors, rattan chairs and colorful paintings to complete the Mediterranean feel, and that little extra touch is provided by the fresh roses on each table.
	Recommendations on the starter menu include the salmon tartare, crab capalini and the popular seared tuna with ceviche dressing. For main course you can't go wrong with seared salmon with asparagus and salsa Verdi, the seafood risotto or the Sicilian style sirloin with capers, anchovies and olives. If you still have room for dessert try the chocolate praline or the honeycomb ice cream!

Food Lovers Market : Fruit and Veg

Almost child has been to Fruit and Veg with his/ her parents and you probably going to take your children their to do you monthly fruits and vegetable grocery. The smell and freshness, I don't think I'll ever forget that. even thought I am far from home, once in a while I enjoy going to Fruit and Veg with my Mom.

Neighbourgoods Market

The Neighbourgoods Market is located in Joburg and Cape Town.
At the market you can get food, clothes, jewellery.
The market is only open on Saturdays for a limited time, you can hangout with your friends and enjoy the smell of fresh food and arts.

To know more about the Neighbourgoods Market were you can find out what time they open http://www.neighbourgoodsmarket.co.za

Top Restaurants in JHB

The  top 5 Restaurants in Johannesburg according to zomato.com

1. The Wolfpack
Located: Parkhurst
American, Burger
Cost for two: R250

2. Craft
Located: Parkhurst
European
Cost for two: R350

 



3. The Steamworks
Fourways
British Burger
Cost for two: R250

 

 

4. Tashas

Rosebank

Cafe

Cost for two: R300

 

5. Society and Craft Bar

Fourways

Cost for two: R300









Masterchef South Africa

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx3_zauwoOw

The Barn Restaurant

The Barn Restaurant is located in Centurion Irene Farm. This restaurant serves fresh milk and dairy food from the farm. It is a buffet that accommodates 300 people.

According to http://www.irenefarm.co.za/restaurants/the-barn-restaurant
 Weekdays 07:00 - 17:00

Tuesday to Friday: a la carte Menu available.  Buffets are also available on request for bigger groups.

Public Holidays:

Breakfast Buffet @ R129.95 per person from 08:00 - 11:30

Braai Buffet @ R139.95 per person from 12:30 - 15:00

Saturdays:

Saturday a la carte Breakfast from 08:00 - 12:00. Buffets are also available on request for bigger groups.

Braai Buffet @ R139.95 per person from 12:30 - 16:30

Sundays:

Sunday Breakfast Buffet @ R129.95 per person from 08:00 - 11:30

Sunday Lunch Buffet @ R179.95 per person12:30 -15:30

Children between the ages of 6 – 12 will pay half price for any buffet meal accompanied with an adult.  There are no charges for children under the age of 6 for buffet meals.