Braaing: Cooking meat on a fire, basically. So yes like a Barbie but we have real meat not those funny pink sausages – bangers or whatever you call them. We have great big slabs of steak or juicy chops. also there should be salad.

a real SA braai involves men by the fire with beer, women in the kitchen gossiping and making salad or buttering roles.

being a single mom braaing for us involves raph and i making the fire, raph trying to burn down the house (or in this case the farm, thankfully the farmer stopped him in time), me cooking the meat and making the salad, and beer.

on farms as my sister worked on some around the country. i would spend hours alone wandering about with dogs.

it was great to see Raph not getting bored once, even though he potted around alone for hours on end.

_{yes, braai = bbq}