Here is a recipe that I use almost every week to make homemade bread. Try it at home, and take photo's, and lastly comment below and let me know how it went. Diphaphata (Dee-pa-pat-ta) is very popular in Botswana because it tastes great. Happy cooking :D
-Finda
Diphaphata - Botswana Homemade Bread
Diphaphata is a great tasting bread that be eaten as hamburger bread to dinner roles. There are many creative ways to use this bread. Additionally, extra ingredients can be added to give Diphaphata a different taste, look, etc.
Ingredients:
4 cups of white or brown flour
10g or 1 pack of yeast
Salt
Sugar
1.5 cups of warm water
Directions:
1. Add flour, yeast, salt and/or sugar in a mixing bowl.
a. Note: Add enough salt and sugar to your personal preference
2. Add warm water to your mixing bowl and mix ingredients into a dough
3. Continue to add warm water until the dough is soft and without any bumps
4. Let dough sit for 10 to 15 minutes in order to allow the yeast to raise the dough
5. Separate dough into 8 to 12 round balls
6. Pre-heat oven to 250 degrees
7. Lightly grease your baking pan and place dough balls onto the pan
8. Bake the dough for 10 to 15 minutes or until the dough is lightly golden brown
9. Serve with butter, jelly, tea or by itself
Magwinya (Ma-gween-ya) aka Fat Cakes
Why might you ask why I would need to chase donkey's out my yard. Well it's for two things. The first reason is that they like to eat grass and other shrubbery. While this is fine, donkey's also have no problem pooping where they eat. This is my first issue with having donkey's eat the grass in my yard. The second less obvious reason is that they will turn on your tap outside, crowd around the tap, and have a small party all night long. Once again they are aware they are doing wrong. How do I know? Well because when you wake up in the morning and see the remnants of the donkey party which include water running all night and tired donkeys they will quickly run outside the gate. Even though most donkeys will run, they are some donkey's (in simple terms) that just don't care, and will only leave your yard after chasing them out your yard. Outside your gate, these donkeys tend to look at you as if you did something wrong.
So I didn't really believe it when I first heard it, but seeing baboon's in my yard the other day was unbelievable. I woke up early, expecting to have a regular Monday morning when I decided to looked outside the window. They were running as a pack, and I nearly panicked. "Oh my gosh" I said to myself and ran for my camera. I started to take pics from the safe distance of in my house. I then decided I wanted to see this with my own eyes. So I searched for my glasses, but first I wanted to tell someone. So I searched for my phone. In between searching for my phone and glasses, I asked myself, "Why am I not just experiencing this?" Who knows when I will see them again. They looked so cute, until they started jumping fences. Then I realized I had another animal who is a pest in my yard. As cute as baboons look far away, there is something scary about them when they are in your yard.
