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What I cook for our annual family weekend at breakfast is a curry breakfast. Tin of mixed veggie curry, tin of pineapple in pieces, bacon, chutney, two eggs per adult (one per child), onion, garlic and mushrooms (fresh or tin depends). This is enough for 2 kids and 7 adults. I served "spiked" orange juice with it for the adults

If you are not in the mood for potjie (or not experienced at making it like myself) you can try 2 minute noodles and tuna. We usually sleep in safari tents or own so I make four packets and two cans of tuna in water for two adults. It's enough for the next morning also!

I have some more but I'm too hungry now!

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Would love more, Fanta.

Now I am hungry!

I got a bread pan from Makro the other day with a very simple recipe.All you need is some Mezina,a 340ml can of beer and a pinch of salt(Calorie booster for sure).Mix them together,add some sliced bacon and start baking it in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes on an open fire,one exception though,the temperature of the fire must be just perfect.Just before its ready to take off,add cheese on top for a minute till its melted.

Let it cool a bit,slice it up with butter and serve with any braai or potjie.

It is mandatory to make a fire every night on our trips,whether to braai or just smell the burning firewood with great company - I wonder what is for dinner tonight?

Wow, beer bread! I've had it once when a friend made it and it was fantastic!

Will have a look for one of these bread pans so that I can make this part of my bush tradition

Thanks for the tip!

KNP-Junkee

please expand a little more on your recipe .
bread pan - is that a flat bottomed cast iron one that you put over moderate coals with some more on the lid?
maizena - how much ?
etc.

here is my beer bread recipe .
500 g self-raising flour in a mixing bowl
340 ml can of beer or stout
pinch of salt
mix this lot and knead with your washed hands
grease (lard or butter is better than cooking oil) the inside and lid of a flat bottomed cast iron pot
put in the dough and let rise a short while (heat will do the rest)
bake over slow coals with a couple on the lid too for about 45 minutes to start
carefully lift the lid and tap the top of tyhe bread for a hollow sound indicating fully baked
tip out once cooled a little
eat while warm with butter

optionals
bread flour and sachet of instant yeast instead of self-raising flour . (needs more raising time )
spoon of sugar or honey
spoon of cooking oil or melted butter
pieces of bacon or cheese
suitable spices or savoury flavourants (imagination)

Meat, Meat & more Meat. Pork Fillet with baby potato, cocktail onion, marinade made of Jalapeno on a piece of foil, smoked to perfection, cooled down & served with a fresh chilli & condensed milk dip.

This is waiting for the beef fillet with a honey & "some other" marinade.
This is a pic of a few forumites at the cricket weekend. This has been posted before so I did not ask permission.

PS: The smoke from the right is the pork fillet smoking.

I recognize those handsome 'mites....

Hallo to all,

MmMMM I miss the braai already, I think it will be a home bound braai tonight....

Been going for years... same ideas as what all of you have....

Breakfast: Eggs yougurt fruit left overs.... We do the scramble eggs with viennas etc... we call it "gubbi gubboes".... I think the name came from that wilh haired guy with his bear Ben... can't remember the program anymore....

Lunch is on the move.... snacks, snacks and snacks... anything goes..... we never do Lunch BIG....

Dinner, I agree with one of the other replies... the fire WILL burn, no matter what's on the menu.... Few tricks up my sleeve though....

Baked Whole Garlic in foil, Fire baked potatoes in foil.... I prepare all ahead of time, chuck it in the Microwave for 8min max both of the above.... cover with foil and travel.... all you have to do is heat it up on the fire... That garlic thing is delicious.... cut of the head of a whole glove.. bit of Balsamic and Olive, mic it, cover it and enjoy after its been on the fir for 1/2 hour.... lovely on anything, it's like marrow, and because it cookes so well, your dearest will not hate you....

My other trick is our Wildtuin Pasta Salad, it will work for any person who doesn't enjoy salads, and it's filling: I prepare it at home, chuck into the tupper and it gets better the "older" it gets.... Here goes...:

500g Cooked Shell Pasta
500ml All Gold Tomato Hot & Spicy Sauce
60ml Olive Oil
50ml Vinegar
10ml Curry Powder
1 Chopped Onion (Raw)
1 Chopped Green Pepper (Raw)

Mix everything together and enjoy.... it's alot of salad and goes along way...

Dessert:
Easy one this:
Packet of Romany Creams
Ultramel Custard

Half the biscuits, poor the Ultramel and let it stand for a while so that the biscuits become soft.... Tastes like "ouma's" baked chocolate pudding....

I miss the Kruger...

Greetings,
Zorro

Well, this trip was the first one I ever had to cater, and i think we did ok...

I pre-prepared a big blik of roast veggies - mixed them with couscous and served with pork chops one night, and made a quick Thai chicken curry with the rest.

A braai (or several) is mandatory. I made some wicked braai'd mielies (pre-cook them first so they don't go hard), which made for fantastic padkos the next day! Roasted marshmallows are also a must... they also go into all coffee, hot choc etc..

Mom used to make "Camping breakfast biscuits" when we were younger - so I made a batch for old-times' sake. They're super-healthy and delicious!

Snacks in the car included popcorn, dried fruit, biltong, muffins, biscuits... and lots and lots of pre-frozen water!

Mikev

Yes I think we've got the same Breadpan and recipe,I must apologise,I made a mistake with the ingredients.Do not use Mezina(this was very amusing to my girlfriend),use 500g Self-raising flour with a 340ml beer and a pinch of salt.

Mix togeteher and knead in a bowl and place your dough in the cast iron flat-bottom pan.Now carefully add pieces of bacon inside the dough before placing it into the pan.

Now the fire temperature should be just perfect-I've tried it on a Weber before-unsuccessfully,maybe it was because it was not in the Kruger . Place the pan with your bread mixture inside directly in the fire and place a few bits of charcoal on top of the pan.

You can have a beer before checking the state of your bread but be alert form ten minutes after placing the pan into the fire.It ussually takes another 10 to 15 minutes before it is ready to be served.When your bread turns a golden brownish colour - open the pan and add cheese and thin slices of biltong on top for the last two to three minutes.Like mikev said,tap the bread on top to listen if its ready,it makes a hollow sound

Slice the bread and spread some butter while still hot - very nice just like this or you can have it next to any braai with a salad.

For the 3 times we had our beerbread in Kruger we've spotted a leopard the next day!!

Its a simple and very affordable recipe!

So you say all 3 times leopard sightings followed soon after??

Ok I think the guys must bake some bread on the fundraiser...we need to spot some leopards.

I think i see the forming of another good idea for a bet

The sounds coming from my stomach right now are VERY strange

Here is our routine:
Breakfast: NO TIME! Need to get spotting straight away, we have coffee in the flask, rusks, biltong, droewors, cabbernossi and chips in the car. That usually sustains us until we reach a picnic spot.

We then have BRUNCH. This is usually huge, combining breakfast and lunch.
Eggs, bacon, kaasworsies, mushrooms, onions, tomato, toast etc. Whatever we can stuff ourselves with
What's also GREAT is making french toast on the cadac or "toad in the whole" (Slice of bread with centre piece cut out and replaced by egg)!!!

Strange how we always stuff ourselves at brunch, but 10 minutes back in the car... and we're eating again.
Something we LOVE to have in the car is melting chocs!
We usually buy a bag of those miniature cadbury / nestle choccies.
Take one of those choccies, place it on the dashboard of your car and in about 3 minutes in the Kruger Sun they are melted.
Then you bite a small hole in the one corner of the wrapper and suck on the melted chocolate while doing your game spotting.
(GREAT replacement for smoking in the car!!!)

Supper: MEAT! MEAT! with whatever comes to mind. We also do the potato and mielie in tinfoil, potbroodjie, pap-en-sous (we call the sauce JOLLIE - Don't ask me why?)

Are we the only people who over-eat when in Kruger?