BUBBLING UNDER Carolize Coetzee

My favourite family recipe is my grandmother’s gingerbread biscuits. She used to bake a lot: vetkoek, mosbolletjies … And she made the best marmalade and ginger beer. Most of the baking recipes I use at Tokara Restaurant were passed down by my family.

I grew up My favourite time of year was Christmas, when my three oldest sisters would come home. My mom would be busy in the kitchen from early in the morning, preparing the roast lamb and (literally translated, it means “dynamite chicken” because the clove-spiced chicken is shredded very finely, almost as if the chicken had exploded!). My sisters and I would help with the vegetables such as (pumpkin fritters) and green beans with bacon and mushrooms.