LOL LANNA...i am having a giggle ..just eating the worst /best 'slap-chips' since Cape Aguhlas.....

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joanietoo

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think of trying to go home around Christmas....thinkin about 'crunchies' and melk tert etc and ordered French Fries and they ahve arrived soppy and soft....so homelike....

 
joanie, stop and look down. Are you sure there isn't a drink in front of you already?

Chimp Lips....I'm gonna be saying that and smiling all day now.

 
MCM>>>>>>

Sorry, it is all South African sort of humour.....slap (pronounced sl-UP) chips are a favourite there eaten with malt vinegar and salt, home made and limp not terrible brown (It takes a special knack to make them I think)........we used to sail in the cold water......hobie cats, windsurfing etc and afterwards a shot or two of "OU'BEES" old brown sherry and a serving of slap chips was prolly the best thing...
but lots of folk who live there love slap chips too even if they don't sail...

Cape Aguhlas is the Southern most tip of the whole African continent...(we happened to sail there a lot and had a holiday house there too) at the wee windswept beach-shack restuarant they served slap chips.

Melk Tert is as South African as any bobotie or potjie etc...basically a custard tart.

Soooo being home-sick and thinking of Lana and her crunchie posts, getting slap chips delivered from the restuarant here in the Caribbean (when they are usually brown and very crisp) had my wacky sense of humour (and boredom too, I guess) go off kilter.....

This happens ... if one is not from a certain part of the globe a few short sentences are not understood easily by all....sorry for the loooong explanation.

 
That looks a good recipe RVB...with a sort of shortbread crust...one can make it in puff pastry too.

Melk Tert in puff pastry crusts are usually found at the farm stalls and country homes...while the shortbread crusts are found in homes in the suburbs.

We were surrounded by farmers holiday homes at Cape Aguhlas and the best melk terts were made by the ou tannies (old aunties) who started the pastry making at 3 am (that is when we headed out to fish from the outer banks) because it was cooler then. All made the old fashioned way by hand, so time consumming BUT OH!!!! to die for.

 
OK, now that makes sense. I just thought you had started your weekend

party reallllly early! LOL!

 
Oh Joanie, I miss those almost more than anything.....

chips that actually taste of potato and not of yucky cooking oil, with the malt vinegar splashed on. Sigh. We went back about 2 years ago, and I ate a lot of chips. And there was a new fast food chain that sold the most amazing calamari, almost the best I have ever had, just out of a cardboard box. Double sigh.

 
I don't even like melktert, and this recipe looks good...

We are having people over tonight for a braai/cookout, and I went and bought boerewors to give them a taste of SA. Maybe I should make this, but I think Becca is lactose intolerant, so I should make the blueberry pie as well.

 
LOL Mar...cant say 'slap chips' the way one says slap happy......

slup is Afrikaans I think for sloppy however it also maens smack....

Ek sal jou slap = I'll hit you.....

Does 'slap happy' mean smacking happy in English? I don't know......you've guessed, I love the diversity of the English language.

 
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