Category: Food
Isidovela
I’m Xhosa, isidovela is a meal where rice is cooked with potatoes in the same pot. You mix it until it kinda looks like pap. You also have to add Spice for rice or Rajah to make it yellow.
Today I am cooking isidovela.
7 Colours
A meal that is generally cooked on Sundays in many households across Mzansi. It is coined as 7 colours because it comprises a lot of colourful ingredients; a mix of vegetables, starch and meat that make up various colours.
I went home last weekend and my highlight was the 7 colours oledi cooked.
Spinza
Word meaning drink, any type of drink and mostly biased towards alcohol drinks.
uspinza ini? What are you drinking?
Papsak
Papsak is the foil container that's put inside a box of wine (3L or 5L). The term can be used to refer to to cheap or low quality wine.
We used to moer papsak when we were learning to drink.
Masonja
Masonja are Mopane worms that are mostly eaten in Limpopo.
I would rather starve than to eat masonja.
Kota
A quarter loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with combinations of atchar, polony (Bologna), Russian sausages, slap chips, cheese, eggs, chilli sauce and more. A street food / kasi variant of the more suburban bunny chow.
I'm definitely getting myself a kota the next time I visit Gomora.