The Snyman Blog

This blog post is long overdue. In fact, I meant to write this post shortly after Easter this year. It's been sitting in my to-do list since then. Oh well, rather late than never!

For our family Christmas last year I made roast gammon, but Hannah and I wanted to make it a little more like the gammon she grew up with. Then I heard a weird story: instead of boiling your gammon in water, boil it in cola. Apparently the acid in the cola helps to break down the gammon a little and make it that much more tender. We loved the Christmas gammon so much, we decided to make it for Easter again.

Hannah found two recipes online which I used as the base of mine. One was a normal maple and mustard glaze recipe, the other included the cola.

Another reason for writing this recipe (other than the gammon comes out amazingly awesome) is because I'm tired of reading recipes where the writer assumes that you know everything there is to know about this subject. Hello, I wouldn't be using your recipe if I knew how to make gammon.

Often recipes call for exact amounts or weights, and with the gammon we get in the shops, that is unlikely to happen. Hannah found instructions on how long you need to cook the gammon according to its weight, and I've included it below.

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Like most parents, we're always looking for affordable ways to feed our family healthier. So today Zak and I made some homemade muesli, and I'm hoping the boys will take to it well enough that we can stop buying sugary breakfast cereals (much as I love them myself, I know they aren't good for you). We found some great local sources for GMO-free oats, honey, and dried fruit. We got the oats and dates we used in this recipe from His Working Hands, which is a local business run by a Christian homeschooling family. They're out on the other side of town but deliver here for a small delivery fee, and their prices make the delivery cost more than worth it. They also have excellent prices on honey, which we've also bought from them, but in this case I used honey from the Exceptional Foods Consortium, which was running a Christmas special- they're another small local company, just starting out with some incredible products! If you're in the Cape Town area, do yourself a favour and check these companies out!

I've had some people express interest in how to make muesli. Most people don't realise how easy it is to make it at home. I grew up with homemade muesli (or granola as we call it in the States), and people in the States were always amazed that you could make it at home too. In light of this, Raoul said I should share my recipe on our blog. Well of course, what an awesome idea!

When I saw today's word I was a bit stumped. I already explained how we don't often leave our children in a previous blog post, and that was the most obvious thing to blog about. I realised there are ways that we do "leave" them though.

We leave them to create their own schedules as babies- I breastfeed on demand, often wear them for naps (especially in the early days), and they go to bed at night when they're tired for the most part.