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The bread has to have LOTS of REAL butter on it too Mmmmmm! Fancy one for breakfast now!

On here we discussed "braai broodjies" (Barbequed Sarmies)

Next time you do them use cheese and fresh Avo. Tried it this weekend and it was the bomb.

With see-through thin rashes of bacon and a few drops of Tabasco??

I didn't try that..... But I sure will next time. Maybe when certain people come and inspect their retirement facilities...

You should!! Gives it that extra bite!

Just don't let "certain people" find wheelchair access to their "retirement facilities" (at least not the one closest to the waterhole).

Take out the Avo and Tabasco and you have a much improved sarnie.

No!!! Way!!!

Breafast - rusks, digestive biscuits or my homemade oat crunchies.

Lunch - chips, peanuts or biltong for starters and then cold meat, tuna or sardines with rolls. Rolls are always a problem in KNP, because the shops sell things more suitable for building houses. Sometimes we will have tinned guavas or fresh fruit instead.

Supper - We braai probably every 2nd night.

Here are some of our more interesting suppers, often with little meat as we eat far too much when we braai.

Chorizo with onions, tomatoes, garlic, chillies, tinned chickpeas and fresh coriander.

Penne rigate (or any other pasta) with tomatoes, chillies, garlic, anchovies and capers.

Chili-con-carne (mince, kidney beans, tinned tomatoes, chilli, garlic, herbs) on rice

Red thai chicken curry with jasmine rice

Bean Soup (onions, garlic, chilli (or cayenne pepper), tinned kidney beans, tinned tomatoes, potatoes, stock cube, herbs) - cooked nice and thick - you need a potato masher for this - only suitable for winter camping

Potatoes boiled (for speed) then fried with onion, chorizo (or bacon), fresh veggies (or canned whole corn, if nothing else), garlic, herbs.

Yes, we do eat a lot of onion, chillies and garlic

And then there is rice surprise. My standard ingredients are onions fried in oil, cooked rice, tinned whole corn, tinned tuna and aromat. But, it can be anything, bacon, chicken, chorizo, left over braai, maybe tomatoes, maybe Nando's spice, maybe herbs. frozen veg, anything left in the fridge really, that is the surprise

Mmmm....like the sound of the oat crunchies. Any chance of the recipe?

She doesn't know the recipe so she makes it up as she goes along and it comes out different each time.

I have a vague recipe

2 x Cup Oats (or 1 Oats and 1 Pronutro)
1 x Cup Flour (self-raising better)
1 x Cup Sugar
1 x Cup Coconut (optional)
1 tsp Baking Powder
3 Tsp Syrup (heaped)
4 Tsp Butter (use canola/grapeseed oil for health if you want)
1 Tsp Water
Vanilla Essence (optional)

Melt syrup, butter in pan, add water and and vanilla essence. Mix all the dry stuff together. Add wet stuff. Mix well. If it is still very powdery (I don't know how you tell ), add some more butter or oil. Squish into a buttered pan. Bake in preheated oven for 30 mins at 300F or 150C. Cut into squares. Return to oven and leave for another 30 mins.

I make a double recipe for a 10 day trip.



My hubby is right. The recipe does change every time.
Next long trip I want to try putting raisins in. The best version I have made was when I used maple syrup, as that was all I had.

They are a really nice breakfast. Best bit - no washing up

I've got to say that it doesn't matter how they come out, they're delicious. I always pack Ouma rusks for my breakfasts but end up eating the crunchies instead.

lam gave this advice earlier this evening but it's advice I wish we didn't have to heed.

I'm not sure of the reason, but none of the shops in any of the parks (but KNP seems the worst) seem to be able to stock fresh bread or bread rolls.

It would be great if some of the SANP officials spouses could start micro-industries baking bread and rolls in the camps that they work in or live near to.

I would be first the queue if it happened.

Or you can do it on the fire

you can also take your dough mixture and wrap it around several big sticks, bake untill it's cooked, it's pretty much hit and miss. It's called "stick bread"

aha ... "stick bread" ... haven't eaten that since "Veldskool" in Standard 7 ... lots of fun ... best bread I've ever had ... since I braai'd it myself