Bobotie Recipie

Bobotie (pronounced: ba-boo-eh-tee) is always something that I have wanted to make in the back of my mind it always seemed so complicated, about 2 months ago I found this really easy recipe in the Home Magazine.  It was possible one of the hottest day's in Cape Town and I decided to make bobotie, it's not quite a "summer meal" but it was delicious anyway and I'm glad that I made it.

The recipe:

2 onions
30 ml butter
1kg beef mince
1 slice of bread
10ml turmeric
15ml curry powder
10ml salt
1.25ml pepper
2.5ml ground nutmeg
5ml salt
125ml vinegar
22.5ml apricot jam
15ml chutney
1 tin cream of mushroom soup
125ml sultanas
2 eggs
375ml milk

Saute the onions in the butter until glossy, then add the mince and fry until brown. Soak the bread in water until soft, squeeze out all the excess water and then add it to the mince with the rest of the ingredients, except the eggs and milk. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes and spoon into a greased dish.

Preheat the oven. Beat the eggs into the milk and pour over the mince, then bake the bobotie until golden brown on top.

I served mine with yellow rice with raisins, I also added little bowls to the table with chopped up banana, coconut, plain yogurt and a sambal made up of chopped up onion and tomato mixed with balsamic vinegar.  Everyone can choose what they want to add to the bobatie and rice.

We all started eating quickly, so I only managed to get one photo of my mom's plate before she started.

Till next time!

L



Oh the smell!

We have a bottle store close by that sells export wine at really good prices, I was driving past on Friday so I popped in and bought 2 bottles of wine.

I put them in the boot of my car in between some juice, strategically placing them so that they can't roll around and bump into each other.
I somehow knew I shouldn't have put them in my boot but of course didn't listen to my gut feeling!

I made sure that I didn't drive like a cowboy, just in case.
I wasn't far from my house when I heard these bottles rolling around, argh!  I drove extra, extra careful.  I took the first turn off just before my road and I heard "CLINK" 2 bottles of wine knocking together.  By the sound I just knew that one if not both had broken, this was then confirmed when I got the "whiff" of red wine.

The two bottles had bumped and the bottom of one had a clean break, which means that a WHOLE bottle of wine emptied in my boot.

I cleaned as much as I could, took the base part out and hosed it down.  I had some more shopping to do so after cleaning it I popped out.  I got home, left all the windows of the car open and went to finish up a few things in the house. About 30 minutes later I open the garage and all I smelt was wine!

I wiped out the boot one more time this time taking my spare tire out only to realise that most of the bottle of wine was sitting in the base of my car. I finally managed to get all of the wine out of my car but unfortunately not the smell.

5 day's later and I have a off wine smell in my car a smell I am not quite sure how to get rid of!

I got this really nice smelling spray when they serviced my car the last time, I have been spraying that to try tone it down a bit. At first I just had a sweet off wine smell but now it seems the wine smell is less at times.

Any suggestions on how to get rid of the smell?

Till next time
L