Lunch

[Rhona]

At the moment I appear to be addicted to sesame seed bagels - lightly toasted with a very low fat cheese spread, sliced tomato and some wafer thin ham or turkey meat...........mmm! mmmm!   

[Michele Alexander (Voden)]

 

By the time I went to get something to eat today there was nothing at the fastfood dept that didn't contain meat!

Your bagel sounds yummy - you can just keep the ham or turkey and add a couple of slices of cucumber or gherkin!

[Michael Alexander]

I was clever.... I waited till the bakery took hot cold crispy brotchens out of the oven at 14h00...bought some cooked ham and hot English mustard..... melted butter and away I went, although I put too much mustard on and blew my sinuses to hell and back..... 

[Rhona]

What are brotchens - and why didn't you buy some for your wife?

[Michael Alexander]

Here you are...best when they are hot..... and I never bought for my wife....coZ she already dined!

[Rhona]

mmmm! I'll have one of those tomorrow - hold the mustard and add some sliced tomato, cucumber and a bit of lettuce. 

[Michael Alexander]

Be warned, whilst on leave in CPT, I found the quality of the bread rolls in the South African stores of a poor quality....... The brotchen must be hot.... and crispy..... otherwise it just will not perform on your palate.... 

[barb (Fry)]

brochen - german crispy roll

Rhona - Lidl do a pkt of frozen brochen you can cook as needed

excellent for previously described filling

[Rhona]

Thanks Barb - I'll have a look in Lidl over the weekend......just have to remember the name of the rolls 

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

    Give the brotchen recipe to the SA bakeries, for they just do not know how to make them!  Each time we go to Windhoek, Swakop, Henties  -  we stuff ourselves with brotchens till we drop.  What I sometimes do is buy something like 100 on the day we start our trip back, and then I stick them in the freezer.  Later I will take them out - let them unfreeze and pop them into a medium hot oven for just 2 - 3 mins  -  good as freshly baked.  You can't do it with the buns you buy here in SA  -  they go all gooey.  Besides the point that the bread is of poor quality (why do you think I mostly bake my own bread?)  -  people stare at you like you have just arrived from the planet Zog when you ask for brotchens.  ----------   

Mike  -  remember this:  I now order in advance 100 brotchens for the 15th Nov  -  the day we will leave after the reunion.  I am very serious about this.  It is an official order I am placing.   Thanx.