Be Patient with me

I am still learning. I know it’s hard to believe or understand but I am still learning.

I am still learning how to be passionate again without any fear

For I had forgotten how to think with my heart because it’s not acceptable in our society

I am learning how to embrace my roots and my origin without any apologies

I am still learning to love myself without makeup and well styled hair

I am still learning how to love that girl I see in the  mirror without acting overly confident

I am still learning how to love me with my Afro

I am still learning that Vulnerable doesn’t always mean Weak

I am still learning that it takes strength to be delicate

I am still learning that walls don’t always protect you

I am still learning that those very same walls hurt you sometimes

I am still learning that behind them you hurt all by yourself in darkness

I am still learning how to let people in

I am still learning how to eat food that my grandparents enjoyed

I ask again……..Be patient with me

I am still learning that Zulu dancing is a part of who I am and if it makes me look uncool Sorry This is who I am

I am still learning that no matter how much you speak the next person’s language it doesn’t mean you will be acceptable to them

I am still trying to grasp that freedom of speech has less to do with freedom, for regardless of your freedom this society expects us to sugar coat everything so you can be adored and accaptable to them

I am still trying to understand where the freedom in that is

I am still learning that sometimes you have to stop caring before they see that you cared all this time while they were still blind

I am still learning how to pour my heart out without any fear of judgement and scrutiny

Pants                                     - Gift from my Cousin
White Long Sleeve Top        - Edgars
Purple Neck-piece                - free market
Colorful head wrap              - Gift from a friend
African Design Sandals        - China Mall

xoxo

Samke 

Sugar&Spices

Savory Jeqe( Steam Bread) with Peri Peri Beef Livers

Today I was having one of my crazy moments with is like an almost everyday for me....hahahaha. Which brings me to today's Food Post.

I made  Savory Jeqe( Steam Bread) Served with Peri Peri Beef Livers

Ingredients 
Jeqe(stream bread)

4 cups of Flour
2 Teaspoons of Yeast
1 Spoon of Oil
1l Warm Water
Black Pepper
Pinch of Salt
Half A hand of Chopped of Coriander
BBQ Spice


Method 

*In a dry bowl: Mix all the dry ingredients
*Add warm water and mix together
*Add the chopped herbs
*Let it rest for 30 minutes or so
*Coat a round metal or steal bowl with a teaspoon of oil and add your Jeqe mixer in.
*Put your bowl in a big pot with hot water, make sure that the water in the pot doesn't cover the Jeqe mixer/ bowl in it( because youir jeqe/ stream bread will not cook well and it will be soggy) 
*Let it cook for an hour or so( check if it's cook through but poking a fork in the middle)


Ingredients
Beef Peri Peri Livers

Stripped 4 Thick Slices of Beef Liver(steaks) 
3 Big Onions stripes( not chopped)
Oil
Ginger and Garlic
Black Pepper
BBQ Spice
Cayenne pepper
Peri Peri Sauce  

Method 

*Preheat the pan, when hot add Oil
*Add onions and when onions are soft add ginger and garlic
* Add beef liver, black pepper,bbq spice,cayenne pepper
*Add peri peri sauce and let it cook to your preference  

   xoxo

   Samke

   Sugar&Spices

My Soul Cries

My African soul is crying out

Crying out to be nourish

Nourish with its own food

Food that is planted in its own soil

It cries out” what are you feeding me?”

Feed me Amadumbe and Ifino

My roots cry out to be watered

Not with chemical water

With water of the African rivers

"Quench my thirst with Amahewu and Amarul"

My hair is crying out

Crying out to be left alone

My hair screams!!!!!What are all this chemicals?

"Why are you burning me?"

"Are you trying to kill my strong black strength"

"Why are you using glue on me???"

"Am I shoes?"

                                                    

I cry out!!!

Feed me with my own

Nature me with my own

Spoil me with my own

Write songs for my soul

Please me by talking to me in my own language

Touch my heart by pleasing not my body but my soul

I want  to be Kissed by the African Sun"

Mother Africaby BenHeine

   xoxo

   Samke

   Sugar&Spices