Today we had venison (springbok) knuckles cooked in a red wine sauce. We enjoyed this with rice and white mushrooms. Winter means venison time because we may only hunt from May until August.

Yard Sausage off a charcoal grill, German potato salad, bar-b-q chips, cold drinks…it’s Summer on my side of the planet. Venison sounds good . What type of mushroom,Pieter?

cheap crap barely worth mentioning damn it.

Think we’re gonna make a chicken/veg stir fry, with some Jasmine rice later.

I’m home alone so I don’t know. I always have a hard time deciding when it’s just me.

@Bart, I don’t know much about mushrooms, just buy and prepare them! It says on the packed “White Mushrooms” and that’s all I know. I’ve never tried to go and collect them myselves 'cause I might kill my whole family.

Had a gret chilli made by the Mrs, and bottle of red and now backed up with a mix of best sp and Kamal – superb

Snuff.

Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday and I’m planning to take her out for the day. My son took her out for lunch today so I will have to fend for myself as far as lunch is concerned. I have two large bags of pop corn and a 200g bag of mixed chocolates, rye bread, peanut butter and honey, cheese and jams, biltong and “droe wors” (dried sausage), a KFC burger and chips and a lot of fruit to choose from. Might order a garlic pizza instead.

Dirt. I’m absolutely strapped for the week, I’ll probably live off the huge hulk of meatless bacon (Smoked pig fat if you will , goes great with garlic and plum moonshine). @Pieter Claassen: Happy birthday to her!. And go for the pizza

Today’s gonna be good. Got two whole chickens trussed and seasoned and ready for the grill. A teriyaki marinated Flank Steak Some chicken kababs for the plain-food liking people Kielbasa Kick-ass pasta salad Corn on the cob Rice Shrimp Cocktail Chips & Dips Salas Beers Snuff Wine Snus Fire…Yeah!

Sounds like a real “Wicked Kitchen”!!!

Got a big skillet of frying taters full of bacon, spices and other goodies. Tonight will be a big mess of taco salad. Meat, cheese. salsa, tortilla chips and hot sauce. Tomorrow is the big holiday cookout .

I have fried rashers and black pudding with coleslaw and potato salad and some brown bread with cheese.

@ Pieter what is Biltong? Stefan

Chili dogs, potato salad, beans.

ummm…if my wife gets lucky…well, you get my drift. lmao

@Stefan, biltong is dried meat. Usually beef or venison is used by sprinkling it with salt, vinegar and corriander. It is then left for about 12 hours. Special little wire hooks are then used to hang the meat from wires until it’s dry. You can buy some in England now and I believe one of Roderick’s kids loves it.

we went eat Mexican last night, and grilled today!

Ice cream Pineapple orange ice cream made localy and it’s awesome!!! Best stuff I’ve had.

Yesterday was my wife’s birthday. She has never been on top of Table Mountain. I took her up as a surprise and we spent most of the day there. Food wasn’t something to mention except for the outrages prices they charge. Most of the visitors are from overseas and with our exchange rate, for them it’s cheap. We did have some delicious cake and coffee. Last night we went to the Cattle Baron where we had some lovely, juicy steaks, chips and fried onions. I also received a voucher for R300.00, so our next meal will be for free.

I bought a ticket from the Lions and won a trolley full of groceries. We are going to the shop tomorrow morning and will have 10 minutes to fill the trolley. Will let you know what I’ll be eating tomorrow.

It was very warm day, so I only ate some smoked salmon on brown bread. Drank few ciders and beers though.

Go for the bologna, Pieter! It can be eaten for any meal!

You guys are gonna scoff, but here’s what I ate today: Breakfast 1 egg fried in olive oil, two pieces of whole grain pumpernickel toast with olive oil. 2nd breakfast handful of cherries left over from last week, still good. lunch half a block of tofu with soy sauce and some red Japanese pepper mix, half a mondo carrot, and a third of a small beet, all raw. 2nd lunch two handfuls of cherries left over from last week one stale peach from last week, but it was damn good, a hybrid strawberry/peach), a hard boiled egg. snack after gym tortilla chips with mashed potatoes and a few of em with black bean salsa (Steve McQueen’s brand=Bullit). Din-din Salmon patties made by Mrs Sprang (Bless her heart, she is the best, caught or is catching a cold, and I forced the neti-pot upon here with a double load and I hope she overcomes) along with left over grilled veggies from last week and some white rice/brown rice from this week. Dessert cheap scotch, one after 'tudder. Limit four, well ok, five, but small ones (this is blowing the 6-pack, dammit, but a man’s gottta have some respite from the evils of the mean, mean world, damn straight). And pinches of this crazy mixture: Equal parts Dholakia White (I love this stuff, it’s so fn kick ass) Fubar Grunt (I love this stuff, it is so manly, yet has that pina colada accent) Toque Rustica(what can I say) Oh, and listening to, while imbibing, LastFM=Walter Trout radio. Yeah. I smoked a left over bowl of Irish Twist, a supposed knock-out pipe tobacco, but that snuff takes the cake afterwards, even so. Cheers one and all

I made some peanut butter cookies. Having some with a thick coffee.

Sprang, From the look of your daily menu, you should live to see a ripe age… (where’s the Braunschweiger,though??)

Pork-n-beans on toast

my pride. Nah just kidding some pasta with meatballs.

My wife is in hospital for a couple of days, so I’m eating all the “wrong” stuff. Cheese and cream crackers for breakfast, coffee for lunch and burgers and chocolates for dinner/supper. Plus big humps of loose snus in the evenings 'cause I don’t have to worry about mud slides.

Smoked salmon on brown bread and pan fried monkfish for friday dinner. Good fast must say.

After the race today I craved a burger, went to KFC and bought THREE Kentucky Rounders but could only manage two. I will finish off the remaining one tonight.

@Allan, do you sometimes use the monkfish as mock crayfish?

Hope your wife is okay, Pieter.

@ Pieter Never.

@ Pieter Never.

pizza pizza pizza

American hamburgers w/fries.

@cstokes4, yes thanks, she’s OK now after we’ve been to the right doctor. An artery was block due to a blood clot. It’s been removed now and she’s recovering fast. @AllanH, I use monk fillets as mock crayfish. I cook it for 20 minutes in water to which I’ve added fresh lemon juice and then just flake it. Add some “pink juice”, (tomato sauce, mayonnaise and chopped onions) and that’s it. After a heavy ride like today’s I eat quite a lot. Had some nice omelets with cheese filling tonight. Tomorrow I will have some juicy steaks on the Bar B q. Cattle eat lots of greens, so I don’t need any veggies with steak.

@ Pieter Good man, that’s interesting recipe, must try next week. I love all seafood from fish fingers to lobsters. Luckily I have two fishmongers in walking distance and food stores also have decent fish counters.

At the moment I’m snacking on some pita bread with fresh homemade hummus.

@ Pieter: around here some people refer to monkfish as “poor man’s lobster”. Personally, I don’t care for lobster, but do enjoy monkfish. tonight I will eat Hoppin’ John

Today I made my own Indian Paneer Cheese (with fenugreek, cumin and pepper), cooked and octopus and served it "pulpo feria’ style, and drank some China Tarry Lapsang Souchong. No kidding either - today was a productive day it will be beans on toast tomorrow…

@Pieter: Monkfish is really expensive. Surely it’s cheaper to use real crayfish than make a mock version ?!

I made enchiladas yesterday.

@BradMajors, crayfish in SA cost between R50.00 and R70.00 a piece and it’s small ones. I buy monkfish for R45.00 a kilo. How many crayfish do I need to get 1 kilogram of clean meat?!! I cannot compare it at all. How much do you pay for crayfish and monkfish?

Monkfish is premium catch on our waters.

Curry tonight!

Vegetarian Shepherds Pie for dinner. Soya mince, leek, carrot and celery in a sauce, topped with mashed potato and baked. I had two helpings when I got back from cycling tonight as I was ravenous. I made enough to last a few days. Later this week I’m making a veggie version of a Jewish stew called Cholent, which is one of my favourites.

@Stephen, glad to see another cycler on board!

@Pieter: Are you saying that you pay more for a single crayfish than you do for a kilo of monkfish ?! It’s been a while since I bought live crayfish in the U.K. (they’re not very common and usually have to be specially ordered) but it was around £12 per kilo. Cooked, shelled and brined they’re about £15 per kilo. Monkfish is around £30 per kilo.

@BradMajors, most of the crayfish taken out here go to the export market. We can buy on the black market but those are always just above size and one can only use the tail. And, of course, if you are caught with black market stuff, the fines are heavy. I buy monkfish from a wholesaler at R45.00 per kilo and it can be prepared in so many different ways. So I don’t even try to get hold of crayfish anymore.

Had breakfast at the Spur with a friend, steak, chips and french fried onions.

For lunch today, I’m having a Poo-Poo plater from my local China wok.

I’ve been craving some Indian food. Frozen burritos for lunch today. Salad and something else for dinner, not sure, maybe hamburgers.

For lunch I’m having a fruit & cheese salad, for dinner it’s a pork loin roast.

@cstokes, now you’re talking!!!

Yes, it made me hungry this morning when I looked at it. A large pork loin covered in onions and peppers. Can’t wait to cut into it tonight.

oh god, I just drove through mcdonalds for the first time in about 15years, got a sausage biscuit with egg and hash browns…actually tasted pretty good!

Cubed Angus Beef Steak battered and fried, Long Grain white rice and beef steak gravy, Cat Head Bisquits covered in gravy, String beans, cream style corn, Washing it down with Southern SwEEEEEEEEEEEEEt iced Tea. Ummmmmmmmmm Its so good.

Pizza with LOTS of garlic for supper tonight. It’s Friday, so I don’t have to worry about clients tomorrow.

Breaded, fried vendace, fresh potatoes and onion-butter sauce. Industrial? Maybe. Tasty? Definitely.

Cheese, cheese, cheese and biscuits. And boiled eggs with mustard and sweet and sour ghergins. Lays chippies and chocolates later tonight while I’m watching a movie on TV.

Spare ribs, potato chips, french fried onions plus whatever my wife will come up with.

hot and sour soup, string beans, beef and broccoli, pepper chicken, spring rolls, and some crab rangoons to top it off.

Banquet chicken.

Taco Bell! Taco supreme and burrito supreme!

Bacon & egg snackwiches with sweet and sour gherkins

Today I bought a 12" buffalo chicken sandwich from Planet Sub. It consists of chicken, pepperjack cheese, buffalo sauce, lettuce and a good handful of jalapenos. I ate half for lunch and will eat the other half for supper. Delicious.

Sounds good. Tonight I am making homemade taco salad.

Lasagna from the infamous Pizza Hut

Meaty slice and wedges from Extreme Pizza, which won the best fastfood category poll at the InDublin magazine only after few months in operation. Well done!

Lunch= Garden Salad with all the condiments. Cubed Steak, Rice and Gravy, Buttered Cathead Bisquits, Green Beans, Cream Corn. Iced Tea

Spur Burger…tonight it’s “buy one, get one free”.

Nacho Bell Grande’ (Southwest Strangla)

Armour smoked Vienna sausage, saltine crackers, and a Sunkist orange soda,loaded with caffiene, my other favorite alkaloid. And a pinch of Tony’s Raspberry Menthol for desert.

I had a bowl of porridge and a boiled egg for breakfast and footlong “steak” and cheese Subway for dinner. Drinks were orange juice, tea coffee and beer, lot of them.

If I feel like cooking once I get home, I may whip up some Chicken Lo Mein. If not, I’ll just nuke something frozen.

About to have a homemade BLT with a cherry cheese cake and a pomegranate for dessert

Swedish meatballs. microwavable =/

Just had a big bowl of chunky New England Clam Chowder. Kinda disappointed, though. Never had it before, and it’s not nearly as good as their regular one (campbell’s, that is). ~Ken

I love Clam Chowder. What I do is buy four tins of clams and use two of them to make Clams Casino Pizza, saving the brine. I then make chowder with the other two cans and the reserved brine.

Tuna & Crackers for lunch today. Keeping it light…

I have a masochist aspect about eating hot foods, I got these hot beef sticks, in a can, and been eating these at work, I ate about 10 of them yesterday, and was suffering on the toilet that night, and here I am sitting here and eating them again.

Had some goats cheese and cream crackers for dinner. Finished it off with Kudu biltong and Tab.

Had “Beefless Stroganoff” from Linda McCartney’s “Home Cooking” book for burfday dinner. It uses veggie burgers instead of beef, but with all the sour cream and butter, isn’t exactly health food. Turned out quite well though, even with my less than marginal cooking talent. Just wish the recipe didn’t call for eight ounces of white wine. I ended up drinking the remainder. Wine and I do not get along too well. Hic!

Hummus with pita bread and a side of strawberries.

Just finished a lovely, juicy sirloin straight from the bar b q

For lunch I had an apple with wildflower honey, some cottage cheese and some vadas.

I’m thinking of making a pizza when I get home.

Five Guy’s burger and fries

Unstuffed cabbage…that’d be a stew of cabbage, ground beef (turkey in my case), and diced tomatoes. Served with a good whack of French bread; a fine meal on this cold rainy night. However, I fear that sometime later tonight Mrs. S. and I will be filling the comforter with such a volume of warm flatus that it will slowly loft up to the ceiling and hover like a foul dirigible of sulfuric doom…

It’s friday and fish day, I think I’ll go for whiting or haddock.

I made, and am now eating, some Matzo Ball soup, and it’s good.

Today was some grilled chicken, served over couscous and topped with garlic hummus…

Tonight was baby back ribs, onion rings, garlic toast, and several draft beers…

Good morning out.

Some barbecued chicken with and some fresh crab, there still alive and moving just waiting to be dropped in the pot, now thats fresh crab baby!

BBQed lamb’s loin chops, boneless pork neck chops and garlic sausage with “rooster koek”. Avo and tomato salad. You can google “rooster koek” for recipes if you feel like it.

Out of curiosity for many years, I bought a package of souse. I’d never had it before and was reluctant, but always wondered what it was like. Well, I made a sandwich with it the other day with some mayo and cheese. Eh, it wasn’t bad, but I thought it was kinda bland. Simple bologna was better. I might try frying it next time.

I ate some leftover spaghetti and meatballs for lunch. For dinner, I had some white rice. Not really all that hungry, for some reason. ~Ken

The Spaghetti & Meatballs thing must have stuck in my head. Having Linguine with Tomatoes, Cremini Mushrooms and Veggie Meatballs. Still avoiding the “health food” stigma by burying it under a snowfall of Parmesan.

I’m going to learn to make an omlette properly if its the last thing I do. I’ll need some more eggs though. Gone through a lot in the last couple of days.

Use milk to fluff up the eggs. I have found that it’s the only way to make the egg flexable.

@Bob, I’m fueling up for Saturday’s mountain bike event, so tonight it’s pasta with tomato “something” for me as well.

Waffles with maple syrup, geotta, eggs, blackberry jam on toast for dinner.

Pizza tonight. Ironically enough, after going to Weight Watcher’s, hee hee hee…

My girlfriend made a pot pie which I feasted upon, and knowing her it was organic and otherwise nutritious as well as tasty. yum

I am eating pickled eggs right at this very moment. Pickled eggs are one of my favorite foods.

Tonight I’m going to “braai” some lamb’s loin chops on the BBQ. Don’t know yet what will be for salads, that’s my wife’s department

@thatjerk I had my first pickled egg this semester. I was actually rather surprised at how good they are.

You should try making your own pickled eggs. You can also make pickled sausage wich is also amazing. Actually you can pickle a lot of different vegetables, fruits, and meats. Google some recipes and go crazy.

Homemade spagetti with meatballs and some garlic bread

Steak, spaghetti, tomato sauce.

Chicharrones Con Chile

@Micheltn I used to eat tonnes of that stuff when I was a kid. Tinned Kippers was another.

What’s gifeltefish like?

@tom502 Gefilte fish sort of makes me do this face:

Yesterday I had ice cream for dinner. I will be having ice cream for dinner today as well.

A Veggie burger with a couple of Crawford’s Bourbon Creams for afters. For some reason half the product of Ashly-de-la zouch has ended up in my town. A great day for all the local English biccy lovers.

It’s Friday and I’m going to fry a nice fillet of sea trout with spuds and sour cream sauce.

Nothing special. Hanging out at a friend’s house tonight, so lots of chips and deep-fried popcorn chicken.

A big Zax snack from Zaxbys extra volcano sauce.

Not much because tomorrow is…Christmas!! Then we will have cold meats and salads, LOTS of both.

Orange Triple-layer Moon Pies!!!

corned beef hash with a poached egg was for breakfast

slim jims and beer, perhaps a pizza later

orange triple layer moon pies? We only have regular and crapy moon pies for sale here.

What about super-duper triple-ripple vanilla tipple moon pies?

I tried making lamb chops for the first time the other night pretty good, can anybody tell me how to make a proper mint suace and what mustard is supposed to taste like because to me the mustard had no flavor.

I made some mint sauce this summer from some garden mint. I remember crushing the leaves in my mortar and pestle forever and ever. After that my memory is somewhat blurry. I still have the sauce though, and its still good. I think its white vinegar based.

All the cake, cookies, cupcakes, and chocolate I can get my hands on at the party!

@alex sounds like I did it about right then except I used malt vinegar and some sugar.

@johndeere89: that sounds right: Sugar and vinegar. I forgot to check on this for you, but I pulled the recipe from my mom’s old Women’s Day cooking encyclopedia. Its a 12 or 13 volume set from the 1960s but you can find it in second hand shops all the time, for pennies. In fact, I picked up a second set a few years ago, becuase the old one is getting worn. Everything is in it, and it the information is not very dated considering the age. Anyway, I’ll try to look it up if I remember. Its probably online someplace too.

@ Dear John 89: Mustard recipe= 200g white sugar, 3 large eggs, 125ml white vinegar, 10ml mustard powder, 1ml salt and 250 ml evaporated milk. Mix sugar, eggs, vinegar, mustard powder and salt. Microwave at 50% heat, stirring every minute, until the mixture thickens. Will take about 7 minutes. Leave the mixture to cool down. Stir evaporated milk into mixture and leave in fridge until needed. Best to keep it in a sealed glass jar.

Thanks guys

@johndeere89, you can of course add more mustard powder if you want the mixture stronger. This is the recipe my wifes uses but for me, it must be STRONG!!

Spinach and ricotta fresh ravioli! Lovely stuff… i love fresh pasta.

It’s hot in dear South Africa, up to 104F today. So we had cold salads only. I love watermelon I must have eaten at least 2kg of it today. And then of course cold drinks, 2 litres of TAB plus, plus plus.

I made a meat loaf last night, had it in sandwiches for lunch and have just mixed the rest of it up for chilli tonight! thats how its done!