This will not really work on a braai, but next time you fire up your man oven* to roast a chicken, perhaps braai a few turtles for the kids.
Who will they love more? Mother that makes them bath or father that gives them this?
* If you dont know what a Man Oven is, take this link.
Thank you Tobias
Some photos that recently landed in my inbox. Some you you might have seen them before, but with less than a month to go until National Braai Day 2010, its perhaps a good idea for all to refresh our memories, start planning, and get ready for 24 September 2010.
The pool braai. If you're one of the guys on the photo, please email me.
This braai pack was sold in a Spar in the week before National Braai Day 2009.
Sold in a Pick n Pay in the leadup to Braai Day 2009.
Or more specifically, Jan Braai’s cooking. JP Duminy, South Africa’s flamboyant left-handed batsman, took some time out from preparations for the Airtel T20 Champions League – in which he’ll be representing his Indian Premier League team, the Mumbai Indians – to have a crack at a braai with Jan. You might have spotted an earlier post on the subject, in which Jan Braai referred rather flippantly to my Justin Timberlake beard (eight months, three days worth of growth); just how smitten JP is with Jan’s braaing requires further attention.
JP Duminy saying "I like it!" when confronted with rump steak.
The picture explains quite graphically just how well the seared rump steak with garlic butter is being appreciated; what it doesn’t show is the boerewors (from a confidential source) and lamb chops that disappeared moments later, JP assuring us that garlic butter rump steak was crucial to mastering the cover drive, and formed part of Brian Lara’s daily diet. It might just become part of the Springbok diet as well, JP having spread the gospel of Jan Braai’s magic to his mate Bryan Habana; and it could also become a feature of team dinners for the Mumbai Indians…
…because rumour has that, on JP’s advice, the IPL team is tabling a big money bid for Jan Braai to come on board as team chef. That would all but seal victory for the team in the Airtel T20 Champions League, not to mention keeping a precociously talented left-hander extremely happy. The pay-off line for the cricket tournament is a simple ‘I like it!’; if you spot Jan in a Mumbai jersey any time soon, you know the deal’s been signed, with ‘I like it’ the team’s new catchphrase every time the fire is lit for dinner. All just rumour, of course, particularly when you factor in Jan Braai’s three favourite cricketers: Roger Federer, Ernie Els and Wayne Rooney. JP, you’ve got some work to do.
The Italians are famous (and rightly so) for many things. Building majestic sportscars. Successfully pulling of clothing several sizes to small. Playing football (the recent World Cup not included). Fitting people with concrete shoes and taking them swimming. It’s a long and admirable list, but one particular trait would not appear to be amongst them: the art of braaing.
South Africa's Ant & Dec. Also known as "The original Grant and Anele".
Sasha Martinengo is an institution on South African radio, patrolling the airwaves of 5FM with a winning blend of great music, an inherent sense of fun, and a love of Formula 1 that goes well beyond obsessive – and which has him at the helm of SuperSport’s F1 broadcasts. In between that, he DJs half a dozen gigs a week, jets off around the world to watch Grand Prix, and is single-handedly responsible for 18% of South Africa’s Twitter traffic. And occasionally, he tries to burn his house down. Sasha very kindly had Jan Braai and myself round to his suburban palace for a braai a few weeks back, and also dragged out his old partner in crime, Ian F (the old Ant and Dec of local prime time radio), undersized sports writer Kevin McCallum, who turns up wherever free beer and food are to be had, and Mrs. Martinengo, who, it turns out, is the spiky haired half of Swedish rockstars Roxette, now living in Johannesburg and married to the local doyen of radio. How does one greet Mrs. Martinengo, then? “How do you do, do you do…”
Where there's smoke there's not necessarily fire.
While Paula politely dealt with a string of awful Roxette jokes, Sasha got down to the art of braaing Italian style, which seemed to be based on recreating the skies above Iceland during the volcanic eruption (see picture for confirmation). But as everyone else retreated inside to cold beer, and Sasha’s new television (which is approximately the same size as Malawi), the Italian reined in his furnace, loaded up his meat, and in under an hour, one very happy group of braai afficionados had confirmation that’s it not just pasta the Italians have mastered. But I’m still not buying Sasha’s story that as a superstar DJ, he had to start his braai in something resembling dry ice.
Cape Town – Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Friday called on South Africans to throw some meat – or vegetables – on the coals to celebrate the country’s heritage and “braai”. ”We experienced an incredible spirit in the month of the World Cup when all that mattered was that we were members of this extraordinary Rainbow Nation,” Tutu told journalists. ”So I call on all of us to braai for Heritage Day, September 24. Let’s get together and enjoy ourselves, friends, families and even those who are not friends.”
Desmond Tutu and Jan Braai sharing their vision of uniting a nation around braai fires with the international media
Tutu is the patron of the “Braai for Heritage” campaign which is celebrated on September 24, an official public holiday to mark the nation’s multi-cultural heritage after the fall of apartheid in 1994. The archbishop emeritus said the fireplace was a traditional gathering place in Africa and that anything from meat to vegetables could be put on a braai, a pastime enjoyed by South Africans of all races. ”We want to continue that tradition of all of us gathering on September 24, braaing for our heritage,” he said. ”The important thing is all of us on that one day again getting together and just enjoying the fact of being South Africans.”
Mainstream media reporting on the Braai4Heritage campaign.
The 78-year-old, affectionately known as “the Arch” will retire from public life on his birthday next month after years of speaking out against apartheid’s white minority rule and injustices around the world. He will remain the patron of the braai campaign, which he joined in 2007. ”You can resign from an office job but you can never resign from being a braaier,” the campaign’s Jan Scannell told him in front of a banner featuring a large t-bone steak in the shape of Africa.
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