Midday Spice Newsletter March-April 2014

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Celebrating 20 Years of

Freedom 1994-2014

In this issue of the Midday Spice newsletter:-

Highlights of the Midday Spice broadcast from Bayview Library

Winner of the Where Were You in 1994? competition

Adopt a Gluten Free Lifestyle

Yummy recipes from Bake with Josh

Celebrity Interviews: Kim Engelbrecht and Miss SA 2014 Rolene Strauss


South African Library Week was celebrated between 17-23 March 2014 under the theme, Celebrating libraries in 20 years of democracy: check in @ your library. Bayview Library in Chatsworth invited the Midday Spice show to broadcast from the library and

celebrate the role that libraries have played in

strengthening South African democracy.

The Bayview Library was officially opened in October 1988. It was the first computerized library in the Chatsworth region. The library opened with a collection of about 20 000 books. Today, it currently has about 100 000 items, and a total of 5000 members. Bayview Library has a Business Corner which contains information to assist people in starting their own busi-ness. The library also hosts holiday programmes for children over the school holidays. For the past two years, Bayview Library has a chess club, which was established to assist children in developing problem solving skills. The library also has been making a huge difference in the lives of those who are underprivileged. The librarys social responsibility drives include clothing and grocery collections and an annual stationery drive for disadvantaged children in the community.

On Thursday 20th March, the Midday Spice broadcasted live from Bayview Library, to celebrate 20 years of Democracy and also to reflect on our Human Rights as enshrined in the Bill of Rights.

Varshan Sookhun interviewed, Brandon Pillay, Ward Councillor for Bayview, Devan Pillay, Chairman of Bayview Community Policing Forum, Sam Pillay, Chairman of the Chatsworth Anti-Drug Forum, Mark Reddy a trainer of the chess club and Juthika Hariram, a lawyer and empowerment speaker.

Members of the public witnessed the broadcast and groups of learners from schools in the district participated in a fun quiz based on South Africas democracy. Book prizes and dozens of Lotus FM hampers were distributed to the audience during the broadcast.

Lunch was catered by The Hare Krishna Food for Life.

Special thanks to librarian Sojan Naiker and his team at Bayview Library for hosting the Midday Spice show.

Bayview library was the first in Chats-worth to have a cyber zone installed. There are eight internet computers to serve the public. Bayview is the only library that provides users with com-puter training and certificates.


The Midday Spice in celebration of 20 years of freedom, launched the Where Were You in 1994 competition.

1994 was a momentous year in the history of South Africa.

It was in 1994 that the first ever multi-racial elections were held and our struggle hero Nelson Man-dela was inaugurated as President.

The Midday Spice show posed the question : Where Were You in 1994?

Lotus Fm listeners were invited to email their recollections of 1994 and share their memories of South Africas first democratic elections.

Gan Gounder from Port Shepstone sent in the winning email entry. He wrote that he was in Cape Town during the 1994 elections.... Many powerful images characterized South Africa's first democratic elec-

tion in Cape Town in 1994.

The turnout was huge and very long queues developed at voting stations

around Cape Town.

But the atmosphere among voters was relaxed, even festive at times.

The image of people from all race groups waiting patiently to vote caught

the world's imagination. It provided a new picture of South Africa, so dif-

ferent from the divided queues of apartheid.

I shared these poignant moments with many Capetonians. I still remember

Desmond Tutu casting his first democratic vote.

At midnight on Whale Street in Cape Town, I joined the crowd and watched

the lowering of the South African Republic flag while listening to the

the old anthem Die Stem. I raised my punched fist and showed my support. I

will never forget that day.

Gan Gounder is employed by Coca Cola Fortune

and is married to Venessa and has a son Mayeshan (Grade 5) and a daughter Tausha whose in

Grade 11. Gan is an outdoor enthusiast and loves the Comrades and Ultra Marathon Races, fishing

and all codes of sport. Gan won a fantastic weekend stay for two at Three Cities Docklands Hotel.


GLUTEN FREE LIFESTYLE

A gluten-free diet is one that excludes the protein gluten. Gluten is found in grains such as wheat, barley, rye.

Matthew Ballenden,

(pictured left), the

founder and owner

Fresh Earth Bake

House was inter-

viewed on the Midday

Spice show about the

health benefits of a

gluten free lifestyle.

Matthew shared tips

on how to incorporate

gluten free products

into a familys eating

plan and what gluten

free actually means.

Matthew graduated in Food and Beverage Management at Wits Technikon Hotel School and now specialises as a Nutritional Chef. After many years of work-ing in the restaurant industry, Matthew pursued his interest in nutritional cooking and organic retail-ing.

Matthews experience and desire for creating food that is as close to nature as possible prompted him to develop products for the increasing number of wheat and gluten intolerant people, as well as those who aspire to lead a healthier lifestyle.

The Fresh Earth Bake House is a bakery dedicated to the production of a range of premium gluten free baked products. Currently the bakery supplies leading retail stores such as Dischem and Pick n Pay across the country.

Apart from the day to day running of his company, Matthew teaches Nutritional Cooking classes and gives cooking demonstrations to schools and corporates with an emphasis on maintaining the nutri-tional value of the food as well as making it tasty.

His objective is to increase the understanding and benefits of gluten and wheat free baked goods, which may be used to aid weight loss and are suitable for vegetarians.

For more information on Fresh Earth Bake House please visit http://www.freshearth.co.za/store/s-45-bakery-natural-and-gluten-free.aspx

Gluten free living is as-

sociated with various

health benefits including

improved cardio-

vascular health, reduced

blood cholesterol,

weight-loss and in-

creased energy levels.


Matthew ballendens

Gluten free recipes

Coconut and Tofu Stir Fry

Ingredients

1 table spoon olive oil

2 cloves garlic crushed

1 fresh chilli, finely chopped

60g curry paste

120g king oyster mushrooms

200g runner beans, sliced at a slant

Juice of 1 lime

4 dried lime leaves

2 cups veggie stock

50g cashews, roasted and ground

150g tofu, cubed

200ml coconut milk

Method:

Heat the olive oil, garlic, chilli, ginger and curry paste gently until fragrant in a saucepan over a medium to low heat.

Add the remaining ingredients except the tofu and coconut milk and stir until all are incor-porated.

Stir-fry for 3 minutes.

Add the tofu and coconut milk and heat through for 5 minutes.

Serve warm.


Sprout and Micro Green Salad

Ingredients

350g mixed sprouts and shoots (alfalfa, mung beans, sunflower, lentils and mung)

30g Micro greens

150g fresh peas

1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped

Hand full of fresh mint leaves

4 handfuls of rocket

Dressing

50g capers

2 cloves garlic, peeled

4 tbsp. balsamic vinegar

4 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil

Method

For the dressing:

Finely grate the garlic into the olive oil and add the pinch of sea salt. Chop up the capers and add to the oil, add the balsamic vinegar. Mix thoroughly and taste to see if you need to sea-son some more. Toss all the ingredients into a big serving bowl and dress just before you serve the salad.


Josh is incredibly talented in

the kitchen and at such a

young age. He really is an

inspiration to other kids who

want to get cooking.

- Chef Gordon Ramsey

BAKE

WITH

JOSH

Bake with Josh follows the success of Cook with Josh, which has

sold over 10 000 copies in English and Afrikaans since its release

in 2012.

Josh Thirion was just three years old when he helped his mom in the kitchen for the first time, bak-

ing muffins, an experience which started his culinary adventure.

One evening whilst watching MasterChef Australia, Josh drew a comic strip recipe. His father

thought it would be a great idea to draw a whole book full of recipe comics for the 2011 Mzansi

Magic Market. Josh was further inspired to make a cookbook with activities and games for children,

which he sold at the market. Josh won the Best Stall award at Market Day and thereafter sent a

sample of his book to Random House Struik. The result was Cook with Josh, launched in 2012.

Cook With Josh was entered into the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and was a South African

winner of a Gourmand Award in the category of Best Children and Family Cookbook. Thereafter

the book was selected from a pool of 171 countries as one of the six finalists in the world. Cook with

Josh went on to win the Best Childrens Cookbook in the World of 2013 Gourmand Award.

Joshs latest book, Bake with Josh contains his favourite baking recipes and has been divided into six

chapters: Big cakes; Small cakes and muffins; Biscuits, tray bakes and other treats; Breads; Tarts, pies

and pastries and Oven bakes.

While waiting for the delicious goodies to finish baking, kids can enjoy the fun games and activities

in Bake with Josh such as connect-the-dots, spot the-difference, find-the-words, crosswords, mazes

and colouring-in. Josh has also included a colourful page with fun facts and baking tips. Bake with

Josh is jam-packed with over 40 tried-and-tested recipes.

Below is a sampling of the some of the yummy recipes from Bake with Josh, reprinted courtesy of

Struik Lifestyle.


DOUBLE CHOCOLATE

BROWNIES

175 g unsalted butter

250 g dark chocolate, broken into pieces

250 g castor sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla essence

150 g cake flour, sifted

200 g milk chocolate chips or roughly chopped chocolate

30 g white chocolate, melted

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and line the base and sides of a 30 x 20 cm baking tray

and set aside.

2. Melt the butter and dark chocolate together in a heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of sim-

mering water. Stir until smooth and then leave to cool a little.

3. Using an electric mixer, whisk the sugar and eggs together until pale and thick. Add the vanil-

la and the chocolate mixture and stir through.

4. Fold the flour and chocolate chips into the batter, then pour it into the baking tray

and bake for 35 minutes or until a metal skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

5. Cool the cake in the pan and then cut into squares. Drizzle over the melted white

chocolate, allow it to harden a bit and then serve.

Makes about 18


MILLIONAIRE IN TRAINING CHOCOLATE CAKE

300 g sugar


5 eggs, separated

3/4 cup (180 ml) oil

3/4 cup (180 ml) water

250 g cake flour

1 Tbsp (15 ml) baking powder

4 Tbsp cocoa powder

1/4 tsp (1 ml) salt

Syrup

11/2 cup (375 ml) water

300 g sugar

3 Tbsp (45 ml) coffee powder


Icing

1 cup (250 ml) fresh cream

1 x 360 g can caramel condensed milk

1 x 32 g Flake chocolate

some red cherries, halved

To make the cake

1. Preheat the oven to 190C. Grease a standard rectangular oven pan.

2. Beat the sugar, vanilla essence and egg yolks together. Add the oil and water to the egg

mixture and beat well.

3. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa and salt. Add the flour mixture to the

egg mixture and beat well until combined.

4. Beat the egg whites until the stiff peak stage and fold into the flour and egg yolk mixture.

5. Pour the batter into the oven pan and bake for 2025 minutes or until a cake tester insert-


ed comes out clean. Make the syrup 5 minutes before the end of the baking time.

To make the syrup

1. Heat all the syrup ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat.

2. When the sugar and coffee have dissolved and the syrup has heated through, pour it over

the hot cake immediately after you remove it from the oven.

3. Set the cake aside to cool before turning it out carefully onto a wire rack.

To make the icing

1. Beat the cream until stiff peak stage and then mix

in the caramel until combined.

2. Spread the icing over the cake.

3. Cut the cake into squares and decorate with cherries.

4. Crumble the Flake over the icing.

Makes 12


BAKED POTATOES WITH SWEETCORN, BROCCOLI AND CHEESE

4 large potatoes, cooked

1 300 g head broccoli, florets broken off and stemmed

1 cup (250 ml) grated Cheddar cheese

1 x 420 g can cream-style sweetcorn

1/3 cup (80 ml) chopped chives

1/4 cup (60 ml) cream

salt and pepper to taste

1. Preheat the oven to 200C.

2. Halve the potatoes and carefully scoop out the flesh,

keeping the skins intact for refilling.

3. Mix the potato flesh with the remaining ingredients and season well.

4. Spoon the filling back into the skins and bake for 20 minutes, or until golden on top.

Serves 4


MIDDAY SPICE

BOOKSHELF

Switch is the sequel to Jassy Mackenzies bestselling novel Folly. Emma Caines lover

Simon is more than 6000 kilometres away, a rival dominatrix thinks Emma is stealing her clients and shes do-

ing her best to put Emma out of business. Emma needs to defeat her competitor, salvage her relationship and

deal with a surprise house guest. If the famous Mistress Caine wants her happy ending, shes going to have to

rely on more than just her chrome-heeled stiletto boots.

Spilt Milk by Amanda Hodgkinson. 1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever. 1939. Eighteen-year-old Birdie Farr is working as a barmaid in the family pub in London. When she realises she is pregnant she turns to her mother Nellie, who asks her sister to arrange an adoption for Birdie's newborn daughter. But as the years pass Birdie discovers she cannot escape the Marsh sisters' shadowy past - and her own troubling obsession with finding her lost daughter will have deep consequences for all of them...


Chad Le Clos Unbelievable! with Myan Subrayan. At the 2012 Olym-

pics Chad le Clos, a twenty-year-old from Durban, astounded the world

by achieving the unbelievable: he beat Michael Phelps, his childhood

hero and the worlds number one swimmer, in the 200 metres butterfly

final. Unbelievable! is about the making of a swimming sensation in

the words of the golden boy himself, his family and those who have

stood by him from the start.

An Imperfect Blessing by Nadia Davids. It is 1993. South Africa is on the

brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the

slopes of Devils Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a

transformation of her own. She watches with fascination and fear as the

national drama unfolds, longing to be a part of what she knows to be histo-

ry in the making. As her revolutionary aspirations strengthen in the months

before the elections, her intense, radical Uncle Waleed reappears, forcing

her parents and sister Nasreen to confront his subversive and dangerous

past.

The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes. When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Alex takes a job at a Pupil Referral Unit, which accepts the students excluded from other schools in the city. These are troubled, difficult kids and Alex is terrified of what she's tak-en on. There is one class - a group of five teenagers - who intimidate Alex and every other teacher on The Unit. But with the help of the Greek trage-dies she teaches, Alex gradually develops a rapport with them. Finding them enthralled by tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge, Alex even begins to worry that they are taking her lessons to heart, and that a whole new tragedy is being performed, right in front of her. The Amber Fury is a beautifully constructed psychological page-turner. It is a dark mystery of a novel about loss, obsession, and the deep, abiding human need to connect.


South African actress Kim Engelbrecht, fa-

mous for her role as Lolly in the hit soapie

Isidingo, is starring in a new film, Konfetti.

Kim, chatted to Varshan about the film and

her experiences of filming Konfetti along-

side the stellar cast of Nico Panagio, Louw Venter, Casey B Dolan and Casper De Vries.

Filmed in the stunning locale of Blaauwklippen wine farm in Stellenbosch, Konfetti follows the high

and low drama surrounding the wedding of Jean (Nico Panagio) whose Afrikaans and Sheryl (Casey

B Dolan) whose Jewish. Their families are tense. The best man Lukas (Louw Venter) is on a drinking

spree and has forgotten to confirm the band. Bianca (Kim Engelbrecht) is the first available singer he

can find big mistake! As Bianca and Sheryl are old enemies! To complicated matters more, the an-

cestral wedding ring has been delayed because Sheryls relatives are lost en-route to the wedding.

Konfetti captures the many typical South African cultural idiosyncrasies such as the personalities in

the Afrikaans and Jewish families.

Audiences will laugh and cry as they follow Jean and Sheryl to the alter. Kim Engelbrecht told Var-

shan that she and the cast often had to have several takes because they were laughing so hard on

set. Funny, romantic and heartwarming, Konfetti is a proudly South African film not to be missed.

Konfetti is currently showing in cinemas nationwide.


Kims first play was

Tinkerbell at age 6

and she still knows

all the words

She did her first

film when she was

12 years old

Kim is currently

studying financial

statement analysis

(accounting)

through UNISA

Her favourite indul-

gences are good

chocolate and cof-

fee

Kims dream desti-

nation is some-

where where she

can experience

good coffee such as

Jamaica

5 Things you didnt know about Kim Engelbrecht


Favourite TV shows: Grey's Anatomy and Bones.

Favorite music : golden oldies, country music, Mango Groove, Theuns Jordaan, Riana Nel, Re-tief Burger, Hillsong and Enya.

Surprise fact about Rolene: She is the Uni-versity of the Free States first successful test tube baby.

Why Rolene is excited about celebrating 20 years of Democracy?

It is another reminder of our rich cultural histo-ry, potential, power and diversity. We struggled through our obstacles, stood up after difficult times and gave hope to so many countries where equality is a struggle. This shows us that we are capable of great things and we are resili-ent.

Rolenes message to young girls and young women in South Africa?

We as women have soft and sympathetic souls. We are the ones who give hope, love and com-fort. Let us use those qualities.

GETTING TO KNOW

MISS South Africa 2014

ROLENE STRAUSS

Text and Photographs supplied by

Peter Feldman from Nine Squared.

Newly crowned MISS SA

ROLENE STRAUSS, recently

featured on the Midday

Spice show. Varshan chat-

ted to Rolene about her up-

coming reign, the secret to

her confidence and why

shes proudly South African

and thrilled to be celebrating

20 years of freedom. Here

are some fun facts about the

gorgeous Rolene Strauss

Previous beauty competi-tions/pageants won: Elite Model Look South Africa 2007; Miss Diaz 2010 and Miss Shimla Varsity Cup 2011.

A previous Miss SA who has inspired Rolene?

- Jo-Anne Strauss.

Hobbies and interests: playing golf, exercising, going to the movies, read-ing inspirational books and listening to educational audio books. One person Rolene would love to meet during her reign as Miss SA?

- Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, a trained medi-cal doctor who has a pas-sion for health and giving through the Motsepe family foundation.


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