Camping day out in the field. Making "Rooster koek" and S'mores the Namibian way!

Recipe for Roosterkoek

Ingredients

400ml lukewarm water

1 x 10g dry yeast

5ml sugar

700g (5x 250ml) white bread flour

15ml salt

25ml butter

Method:

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Pour wet ingredients in.

Kneed until you get a firm dough. Let it rise until double its size.

Make little round balls and let it rise again.

Bake it on your rooster over hot coals until it makes a hollow sound

when you knock on it with your knuckle. It will also be nicely golden brown.

Enjoy with butter, syrup/honey and cheese.

The best part is licking the dripping syrup and butter from your fingers!

Curious animals

I want to introduce you to some of my all time favourite animals here on our farm.

Lion King made Pumba famous, along with his partner in crime, Timone.

Warthogs are quite hilarious, just looking at them makes you smile. When they are running, their tails look like antennas. Female warthogs usually get 3 babies and oh boy aren't they cute. We had a little Wartie over December, the children named him Hamlet. We found the little guy alone in the veld, he must have gotten separated from his family. We had him for a few days and decided to take him to Naankuse, Wild life sanctuary, about 150km from our farm. They are a conservation organisation that looks after wild animals. It is for sure a must visit when you come to Namibia.

https://naankuse.com

The Aardvark is a medium-sized nocturnal mammal native to Africa. Consider yourself very lucky if you see one of them. They have long snouts and a

long thin tongue about 0.6 m (12 inches) long. Their tongues are long and sticky and they use it to attract termites and ants in ant holes. They can become 23 years old.

Giant mushrooms.

Omajova- Thermitomyces schimperi, is a wild delicacy in Namibia. It is a Herero name for these giant mushrooms. It is found on big ant hills. Some of them gets bigger than a paper plate! They are not poisonous and are very tasty when you prepare it with a creamy garlic sauce.