24 Aug 2007
23 Aug 2007
Big 5, Small 5 or....the baby 5
If you know only about the BIG 5....you know a bit less than other people...South Africa also have the Baby 5
Chakalaka--for your bbq!
Chakalaka
Chakalaka is as South African as rugby, braaivleis and sunny skies! Even Chevrolet is back now!
Chakalaka is an ideal side dish or usually eaten with pap at the barbeque.
This is how you make it:
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 green pepper, chopped
1/2 cabbage, shredded
1/2 cauliflower, broken into small florets
3 carrots, grated or julienned
2 - 3 chillies (depending on taste)
2 tomatoes, chopped
410 gram can baked beans in tomato sauce (optional)
salt to taste
Heat the oil and fry the onion, garlic and pepper until soft. Add cabbage, cauliflower and carrots and cook until limp. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for about 10 minutes. Serve as a side dish at braais or over pap
Chakalaka is as South African as rugby, braaivleis and sunny skies! Even Chevrolet is back now!
Chakalaka is an ideal side dish or usually eaten with pap at the barbeque.
This is how you make it:
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 green pepper, chopped
1/2 cabbage, shredded
1/2 cauliflower, broken into small florets
3 carrots, grated or julienned
2 - 3 chillies (depending on taste)
2 tomatoes, chopped
410 gram can baked beans in tomato sauce (optional)
salt to taste
Heat the oil and fry the onion, garlic and pepper until soft. Add cabbage, cauliflower and carrots and cook until limp. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for about 10 minutes. Serve as a side dish at braais or over pap
Suid-Afrika skool
Vir almal wat kinders in die skool het in Suid-Afrika, hierdie is 'n fantastiese webbladsy met wonderlike inligting wat julle kinders kan gebruik in skooltake! Jy kry alles wat jy nodig het op hierdie webbladsy!
Mieliestronk
Sorry, English speaking people, this is a secret.....:)
Mieliestronk
Sorry, English speaking people, this is a secret.....:)
Night on the farm
After a night on the farm........
Hello....anyone for a ride?
Leave me alone and mind your own business!
and.....will I get paid for my picture taken?
Chappies
One thing I really hate....people chewing....it's kind of ok if they chew with their mouths shut! but in general, I do hate people chewing chewing gum! If you do it and want to speak to me, stop chewing! I don't like it when people do it while having a chat with somebody....read the story of Chappies
Food and menu
This picture is not mine, I found it on the net....the bowl on the right is a salad, called "three bean salad"...I don't know if you know this salad, quite nice, you just mix the beans and ..whallah! you've got a salad!
And here...ladies and gentlemen....for the.....boerpampoen!
It is the bottom one, but this is a pic from the net, and it doesn't have those "cracks"....but oh dear! It is sooooooo......nice! I want my mummy!!!!!!! 
And this menu....during our visit to Pelgrims Rest...the historical town in the Eastern part of the country, Mpumalanga....which means "where the sun rises"....
Found this pic just now on a site....this is the Boerpampoen/pumpkin
Typical South African Food
When visiting family during our holiday, we were treated with all kinds of "typical South African" food...which was really nice.....Potjie Kos...biltong, pap-dis (which only South Africans know... a kind of side dish), ....a PROPER BBQ! (or 2).... and my favourite...boerpampoen!...(picture with next post) I have to add that this was dished-up in the kitchen due to the iron pot!
Click HERE to see more pictures on my Wordpress-blog!
And....a proper BBQ! Steak, chops, and the next picture...chicken....and a sandwich (whitebread!) with tomato/cheese and loads of onions! Yummy!
hmmmm.......!!
It is almost like a stew...but not just any stew!
On this picture above, you can see samp, which is tasty when served the Potjie Kos - even rice can be served with it. I like both.
On this picture above, you can see samp, which is tasty when served the Potjie Kos - even rice can be served with it. I like both.
Click HERE to see more pictures on my Wordpress-blog!
And....a proper BBQ! Steak, chops, and the next picture...chicken....and a sandwich (whitebread!) with tomato/cheese and loads of onions! Yummy!
hmmmm.......!!
What is culture?
It's been about 2 weeks since I started wondering about "culture" and how to define it....we were having a discussion about "what culture is..." If you take an English person, WHAT makes that person "English"...(apart from tea!! , because I grew up to love my tea too!!)...and also.....WHAT tells you the person you know is a South African! or an American....or an Australian/whatever nation....
I found the following comments on THIS SITE this moring, but I do disagree with some of the points....Once I've decided on what I think culture is, I will add mine here and in the meantime, add your views too...that would be interesting!
1) Culture is no special way of life!The anthropological concept of culture describes the different possibilities of organizing human life. Such an idea of culture may not operate with categories of more or less worth. According to this eating with fork and knife or having a harmonical lunch with your family is not more cultured than eating with fingers or having some fast food in your 15-minutes-lunch-break.
2) Culture is not the opposite of nature!Common ideas define culture as the perfection of natural conditions or see culture as the overcoming of a natural stadium. In both cases nature and culture are strictly separated. In opposite to this we have to understand the way we see nature, the idea of nature itself is a cultural construction.
3) Culture is nothing aesthetical or exclusive! Poetry and painting seem to be cultural products par excellence. In contrast to them illegal graffiti and dirty Rap Music seem to be uncivilized barbarism. Assuming culture as all specific rules of thinking and acting, aesthetical ideas just are a piece of the cultural whole and not the one and only category that defines culture.
4) Culture is nothing constant and fixed! Culture is a process of endless redefinition and reorganisation. Culture must be thought as the Semiotics do: Using the allegory of the mythical argoship they assume culture as an assemble of symbols which is always in motion, a ship that is permanent transforming during its odyssey through the time.
5) Culture is nothing that could become infected!People who talk about an infection of culture think about it as a homogeneous, uniform something, a health body that can become ill influenced by other foreign cultures. Firstly, in fact culture must be unterstood as a melting pot. Culture is a complexe product of different and heterogeneous influences. Secondly, the use of such a metaphor reminds me a lot to a long gone time.
6) Culture is nothing that could be protected! The idea of protection requires an imagination of ideal cultural conditions. Such an assumption is against the character of culture that is determined by permanent flow. ...
I found the following comments on THIS SITE this moring, but I do disagree with some of the points....Once I've decided on what I think culture is, I will add mine here and in the meantime, add your views too...that would be interesting!
1) Culture is no special way of life!The anthropological concept of culture describes the different possibilities of organizing human life. Such an idea of culture may not operate with categories of more or less worth. According to this eating with fork and knife or having a harmonical lunch with your family is not more cultured than eating with fingers or having some fast food in your 15-minutes-lunch-break.
2) Culture is not the opposite of nature!Common ideas define culture as the perfection of natural conditions or see culture as the overcoming of a natural stadium. In both cases nature and culture are strictly separated. In opposite to this we have to understand the way we see nature, the idea of nature itself is a cultural construction.
3) Culture is nothing aesthetical or exclusive! Poetry and painting seem to be cultural products par excellence. In contrast to them illegal graffiti and dirty Rap Music seem to be uncivilized barbarism. Assuming culture as all specific rules of thinking and acting, aesthetical ideas just are a piece of the cultural whole and not the one and only category that defines culture.
4) Culture is nothing constant and fixed! Culture is a process of endless redefinition and reorganisation. Culture must be thought as the Semiotics do: Using the allegory of the mythical argoship they assume culture as an assemble of symbols which is always in motion, a ship that is permanent transforming during its odyssey through the time.
5) Culture is nothing that could become infected!People who talk about an infection of culture think about it as a homogeneous, uniform something, a health body that can become ill influenced by other foreign cultures. Firstly, in fact culture must be unterstood as a melting pot. Culture is a complexe product of different and heterogeneous influences. Secondly, the use of such a metaphor reminds me a lot to a long gone time.
6) Culture is nothing that could be protected! The idea of protection requires an imagination of ideal cultural conditions. Such an assumption is against the character of culture that is determined by permanent flow. ...
22 Aug 2007
Chess in a South African school as subject
Wow! I hope they are still having it! Well done! Hennopspark is a school in Centurion, just outside Pretoria.
Found it!!
I found the solution to the Google image search!
This shows you that you don't have to know a foreign language to understand something....just a bit of common sense....haha....go to THIS SITE and slide down to the bottom of the page.
So, actually you don't do a image search like you should do, but in the address bar you type the following. (or click on "images") and then add in the address bar your topic and the attribute.......http://images.google.com/images?q= (and after the equal sign....whatever you're searching...in this case..."anal")... why can't people explain something so simple not properly! (can see they are not teachers....LOL!!)
http://images.google.com/images?q=anal&imgtype=face
another example...."news" is the topic...
http://images.google.com/images?q=news&imgtype=face
This shows you that you don't have to know a foreign language to understand something....just a bit of common sense....haha....go to THIS SITE and slide down to the bottom of the page.
So, actually you don't do a image search like you should do, but in the address bar you type the following. (or click on "images") and then add in the address bar your topic and the attribute.......http://images.google.com/images?q= (and after the equal sign....whatever you're searching...in this case..."anal")... why can't people explain something so simple not properly! (can see they are not teachers....LOL!!)
http://images.google.com/images?q=anal&imgtype=face
another example...."news" is the topic...
http://images.google.com/images?q=news&imgtype=face
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