Hi Cathyml,

I do not eat the type of food you are asking for but I am wondering if you can buy all the same ingredients in SA and continue eating the English type of food, also do you not have Easter Eggs in SA, I do not know the slightest thing about your adopted country, except the weather so please forgive my ignorance LOL

by the way are guineafowl edible?

Hi Peggy, I buy all the same type of food here as I did in the UK and cook it the same way.  However, there are a lot of fruits & veg and fish here that are different to what I grew up with in England.  As for James yanking your chain about guinea fowl - I must admit that it is definitely not anyone's regular diet and as with game birds in UK you need to watch which months you get them.  I have never cooked one!   

Foods which I don't seem able to get here and really wish I could are Pork Pies, Cod (the Hake here definitely is not a great substitute), walnuts (very expensive), decent smoked anything, including bacon,  I am sure the flavouring is all chemicals.  

Hot Cross Buns I can get pretty much all year round, Easter eggs have been in the shops since February, Karoo lamb is a wonderful flavoured lamb because of the herbs they eat in the bush veld (but have to pay more of course). Never seen Simnel cake here.  

There are many traditional South African recipes which are really very good, but we only have those sometimes if we eat out.

The husband is a meat, two veg, and pototo, man - so that is what I cook!!! (so boring!)

Have to thank Rod Burkey for the photo of the hand raised pie - whoopee, someone heard my cry!!! and answered it

Picture by Rod Burkey

Many love them & many hate pork pies. The best though, I think are the hand raised. Melton Mowbray, in the County of Rutland is famous for them.