In South Africa, broekie is the Afrikaans word for underpants and broodtjie is a small bread. Beat by hand for a minute until fully incorporated and smooth then add vanilla
Koek (pronounced cook) is the Afrikaans word forcake. I used the recipe forchocolatecake from Yuppiechef’s Art of Baking Course (which is available for free at their online cooking school)
When I was working at The Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg an hour never went by without me hearing an array of various swearwords, mostly in isiZulu and English but now and then an Afrikaans swearword would sneak in too
Or can he just cover the essentials like English, Maths and Afrikaans. For those of you who don’t know our weather tree… we colour the leaves according to the weather… sunny days get green leaves, rainy days get blue leaves
Afrikaans has a great little turn of phrase along the lines of “Ek grill my dood”. Our host asked that we swirl an almond biscotti into our dessert wine for as long as it took him to not so subtly flirt with, and make his way over to, a pretty young girl across the room
Yes it is a little early, but not too early for a fabulous Christmas Dinner from Yuppie Chef, everything you need to know in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu
