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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 13:09 on 25th March 2010

Hi Cathyml,

I do not eat the type of food you are asking for but I am wondering if you can buy all the same ingredients in SA and continue eating the English type of food, also do you not have Easter Eggs in SA, I do not know the slightest thing about your adopted country, except the weather so please forgive my ignorance LOL

by the way are guineafowl edible?

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James Prescott
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quotePosted at 13:13 on 25th March 2010
hello peggy,guinea fowl are very much edible and quite expensive and also very tasty they are better casseroled once you taste it you will want it again.Wink
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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 13:17 on 25th March 2010
Thanks James for the info, taste it-definately not, I am a veggie Cry
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cathyml
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quotePosted at 13:35 on 25th March 2010

Hi Peggy, I buy all the same type of food here as I did in the UK and cook it the same way.  However, there are a lot of fruits & veg and fish here that are different to what I grew up with in England.  As for James yanking your chain about guinea fowl - I must admit that it is definitely not anyone's regular diet and as with game birds in UK you need to watch which months you get them.  I have never cooked one!   

Foods which I don't seem able to get here and really wish I could are Pork Pies, Cod (the Hake here definitely is not a great substitute), walnuts (very expensive), decent smoked anything, including bacon,  I am sure the flavouring is all chemicals.  

Hot Cross Buns I can get pretty much all year round, Easter eggs have been in the shops since February, Karoo lamb is a wonderful flavoured lamb because of the herbs they eat in the bush veld (but have to pay more of course). Never seen Simnel cake here.  

There are many traditional South African recipes which are really very good, but we only have those sometimes if we eat out.

The husband is a meat, two veg, and pototo, man - so that is what I cook!!! (so boring!)

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cathyml
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quotePosted at 13:37 on 25th March 2010
Peggy perhaps you could go to the local bakery and just photograph all the goodies set out there! (Challenge - dare)Laughing
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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 16:47 on 25th March 2010
OK LOL
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cathyml
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quotePosted at 17:16 on 25th March 2010

Have to thank Rod Burkey for the photo of the hand raised pie - whoopee, someone heard my cry!!! and answered it

Hand Raised Pie.
Picture by Rod Burkey


Great one RodKiss

 

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quotePosted at 17:45 on 25th March 2010

Many love them & many hate pork pies. The best though, I think are the hand raised. Melton Mowbray, in the County of Rutland is famous for them.

 

 

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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 18:03 on 25th March 2010
Ah Pork Pie's! Wonderful....
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James Prescott
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quotePosted at 18:14 on 25th March 2010
i have had an early tea to-night so i felt a bit peckish so i had a nice pork pie                which was meant for later on,dosed in colmans mustard.mmmm.Innocent
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