When we first started running our BnB, food was not going feature at all, it was strictly accommodation only.
That changed a couple of years down the line when we formed a good relationship with a local training centre.
Trainees come from various parts of our province, sometimes further afield. These kind of bookings are really lucrative, as they stay for lengthy periods.
However, these guests are hungry young men, and their companies needed an establishment that could offer affordable meals; breakfasts, and dinners.
I love cooking, but am not a morning person, so breakfast is not my favourite kind of meal, plus they needed it by 6h:30, way too early for me.
Covid came along and did me a big favour - ever since our lockdown of 2020 came to an end, I now only offer them a self-serve budget breakfast of cereals, yogurt, fruit, juice, cold meat, spreads, and bread or rolls, but leave the supplies in their units, so I can enjoy a leisurely coffee in bed!
It suits them as they only eat cereal in the morning and use the supplies to make sandwiches to take with them to training.
Dinners are served as plated meals.
Many of the guys do not enjoy their veggies, or salads, something we just love.
The kind of meals they enjoy have to be filling, so curries, hearty stews, roast chicken and all the trimmings, sausages and mash, and pasta often feature on the menu.
I've learned to cook just enough vegetables for hubby, our gardener, and me.
I will share just a couple of recent quick and easy meals with you.
A layered Fusilli pasta with a rich saucy ground beef sauce, tomato, basil & onion sauce, topped with a cheese sauce, is one of their favourites.
Naturally, some have special dietary requirements, so I have to improvise. Some do not eat meat but will eat fish, so the meal one evening was a spicy Moong Dhal made with pre-cooked green Mung Beans added to a spicy tomato and onion sauce and slow-cooked till all the flavours mingle.
I had no fish in the freezer this particular day but had Tuna in cans which was turned into Tuna Fish Cakes - mashed potatoes, diced onions, parsley, oat flakes, and an egg to bind it all (he didn't mind the egg, surprisingly), rolled in oat flakes and fried in shallow oil, this was a surprisingly good meal!
A traditional Isizulu dish known as Imfino is one of my absolute favourite vegetables, so when a friend sent some small-leaved spinach that grows in her garden, I immediately knew what I was going to make, it was a huge bunch, but the spinach shrinks to almost nothing when it starts cooking.
Diced onion is sauteed in a little butter, a diced tomato and potato are added, and then the roughly chopped spinach. Once it's cooked, add pepper and loads of butter, and roughly mash it all up. Really yum!
I hope you've enjoyed a little peep into some of the meals I serve to my young guests from different cultures.
BON APPETIT FRIENDS, HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND FURTHER!
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