Damara lunch with Iroline – Chapter 5

Iroline invited us with my friend Clara, to a Sunday traditional Damara lunch at her parents’ house located in a Walvis Bay ghetto area.

On the menu there was the following:
• Bread making (flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water)
• 2 goats’ head, feet and offal (lungs, trachea, etc.).
• Pap: It is a kind of porridge, made from maize meal, served in many homes, as it is cheap and filling.
• Liver salad with onion and tomatoes
• Frozen vegetables

For the occasion, it was very nice as the women wore their traditional dresses.

Iroline with the goat’s head

Ingredients for making bread: flour, yeast, sugar, salt and then adding water.

Set up preparation. 1 pot with the offal such as lungs, trachea, etc., and then Esther was talking about the bread. They are cooking the bread in that big caldron lined with a bit of oil. With the dough, they made little balls, so that it is easier afterward to break the bread into separate pieces…one traditional way of removing the goat’s head hair is to burn it on the fire, to peel off the skin although normally they would boil it… Clara who is from Zimbabwe is also intrigued by how they make the pap here in Namibia.

Goat cooking and adding water sometimes they drink the sauce as a soup.

With the rest of the dough that they flatten and cook under the coal…you need to turn it very frequently, it rises and you just eat it.

Make Pap step 1. Ingredients: boiling water with salt, adding 2 tins of corn, maize flour, a bit of oil. Iroline said that instead of corn they also do it with milk instead.

Pap step 2. A closer look. It cooks in a few minutes.

Goat finishing to cook and then being kept warm on the stove top.

Liver salad. Liver shopped finely, presumably adding salt then Flexida cooks it in oil, add a chopped onion and tomato, let it cool, then she adds white pepper and mayonnaise.

Iroline explains with her sister Divine, that they have designed aprons made for special occasions. Like if they are invited out and want to help they would bring it along to the function Sometimes they even have the inscription like wedding sewn on it.

In the meantime the bread is cooking.

Food assembly