Besides being nutritional, a tamatie can enhance just about any meal.
This week our focus is on the big red one, served with your salad, but also used to cook some of our lekkerste Mommy-dites.
It enhances your curry, flavours any sambal and it makes a toasted sandwich taste like heaven.
Tamatiebredie is a thing that should, in my humble opinion, only be made by experts.
And I’m not one. You can try as you might, ma dis of jou ma, jou antie of jou ouma wat die beste tamatiekos maak.
I can cook, but there is an art to tomato stew that I have not yet mastered.
Don’t get me wrong, I think my stew is delicious, but it feels just a little off, like I am missing something, every time.
My mom always makes it better than I do.
I’ve tried adding extra pepper, canned tomato and onion puree and fresh tomatoes instead of the paste, but nee, I can’t do it.
It’s a running competition at my house too.
Bae, his royal Chefness, can mos cook anything with his hands tied behind his back.
Hy lag hom dood as ek sukkel,and I’d watch him take his first bite, just to see his reaction, but nance, he mos has 15 years of practice to make his face blank, or there will be hell to pay.
Please enjoy some of my favourite tomato dishes and let us know what you think.