Sheep Brain Stew Receipe

The following receipe serves 4 people.

• INGREDIENTS :

• 3 sheep brains
• 3 onions, chopped
• 4 tomatoes, choppped
• half a bunch of coriander leaves
• 6 green chillies
• 1.5 tsp. of turmeric
• 0.75 tsp. of chilli powder
• 1.5 tsp. of salt
• 2 tsp. of vinegar
• 3 tbsp. of olive oil

• INSTRUCTIONS:

• Clean and wash the brains. then sprinkle half a tsp. of salt and turmeric powder on them and boil with 2 cups of water. When the water is boiled, remove the brains.

• Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onions till they are light brown. Add the chopped tomatoes,coriander leaves and chillies to the pan. Then fry them on a slow heat and add 1 tsp. of turmeric powder, chilli powder and one tsp. of salt. Continue frying while adding about 4 oz. of water. Finnally add the vinegar and then add the cooked brains and allow to simmer , covered for about 5 minutes. Serve hot.

• For those who have never eaten this before, brains look like scrambled eggs and taste absolutely delicious.

Sheep brain stew

Pickled Mangoes - Rundaas Style

Parfait jars are the best method of storage for the mangoes once pickled, especially with their air-tight rubber seal. Use the biggest ones which are about 12 inches high. INGREDIENTS :

• 10 Kg. of small green mangoes
• Small green chillies
• Small red chillies
• Salt

• Slice the mangoes into small wedges (having removed their hard green pips) and put a layer about 2 inches high into the parfait jar. Then add 2-3 green and red chillies and sprinkle some salt. Then add another layer of sliced magoes 2 inches high and repeat the process in layers all the way to the top of the parfait jar. Close the rubber seal tightly and turn the jar upside down and then upright again. Place the jars upright in the sun during the day, turning them upside down about three times. Leave them for 3 days in the sun to sweat which will create their brine.

• Put them all in the refridgerator and enjoy them with curries, steak, fish and whatever else depending on how fucked up your taste buds are !

• Pickled Mangoes

The Turner Prize 2005

The 2005 Turner Prize has been won by Simon Starling. His work involves transforming an object or substance into another. He describes his work as ''the physical manifestation of a thought process...'' In 2004 he crossed the Tabernas desert in Andalucia, Spain on an improvised electric bicycle.The waste product produced by the bicycle was water which he used to paint a watercolour of a cactus for a piece entitled ''Tabernas Desert Run ''. For his Turner Prize exhibit ''Shedboatshed'', Simon Starling dismantled a shed, turned it into a boat and loaded the boat with the remains of the shed. The boat was then paddled down the Rhine to a museum in Basel, dismantled and re-made into a shed. Though I'm not very excited by the work for the Turner Prize for several years now, strangely enough I predicted that Starling would win, leaving a comment to that effect on Art News Blog around October 20th earlier this year. Perhaps it was the bias I that live in Tabernas !! Tags: Turner Prize 2005 + Simon Starling + Tabernas