Next week this time we’ll all be having leftover Christmas kos for breakfast - I can’t wait!
Christmas is just a few days away and if you haven’t done your shopping yet, you’d better hurry before all the good meat is gone!
No Christmas table is complete without our beloved gammon, tongue, corned beef and if you can afford it, leg of lamb.
Planning a Christmas lunch isn’t cheap, but it’s the one time of the year we pull out all the stops until our buttons pop - or does that just happen to me?
And it doesn’t matter where you go, you’re guaranteed to find at least one of these Christmas staples on the table.
In fact, it almost doesn’t seem right to have any of these meats at any other time of the year, much like with pickled fish!
What I love most about Christmas food is the festive smells it leaves permeating through the house.
In my home, the cooking and baking usually start on Christmas Eve.
Few things make me happier than walking into my mom’s living room en daai gammon en tong geure kom haal my so by die deur.
I can barely wait until she takes out the meat and it’s time to cut because that means I get to do that all-important taste test.
I recently spoke to Colleen Heugh, home chef and founder of Colleen’s Home Made Cooking Facebook page, about what she’s putting on her Christmas table.
“When I grew up, that was the tradition along with silverside (corned beef), corned tongue and gammon. But as the years went on, people would shop according to their pockets and they wouldn’t necessarily have all those meats,” she says.
Colleen has shared a few of her favourite Christmas recipes.
If you’re still running around like a headless Christmas chicken, hopefully, these will help.
From my family to yours, have a blessed and safe Christmas!