Tiff's Goat

Our mechanic, Pardi, came into the office asking for a short time off to go fetch Tiff a present that he had for her. It was a memento to say Pole' Sana (very sorry) for loosing her baby.


Little did we know that he was taking the motorbike to the closest boma to fetch a live goat.


When I was about to go home, as Tiff was already there, I was shown a white goat sitting in the back of my vehicle. I took the goat home to show Tiff her gift and to see what she wanted to do with it. Unfortunately there was no chance of keeping the goat at our house and it would be rude to give it back.

We didn't have time to give "Whitey" a name

The only option was to slaughter it and braai it. I made sure the canteen staff (the butchers in this case) gave me the best few cuts and the rest we donated to our staff who were having a farewell party last night for our Safari Shop Assistant, Josephine.

 Quite fatty and tough

I seriously need a haircut

I quickly needed to invite the mates over for some "nyama choma" (cooked meat). Rob, Tawanda, Dale and Leoni popped over for the feast. Ironically Tiff was doing bush dinner, so she will only get to enjoy the goat tomorrow night at Black Rocks. 


In the mean time I had marinated the meat in oil, peri-peri sauce, curry powder, salt and lemon juice.

Looking much better

We also had some boerie, which was a gift for me, from Cliff & Claudia in Arusha. There were no vegetables or salads of any sort. There just wasn't enough time to organise anything like that. But we did have rolls for the boerewors.


The goat was pretty difficult to cook. We decided to cut it into small pieces and braai it that way. This allowed us to eat it in strips and with the marinade was actually bloody nice. Dale even made a spicy lemon dip, which he got ripped off for, but ended up as a sauce on my boerie roll.

It actually looks tough, doesn't it?

I have had goat quite a few times, but always cooked by the locals, which is with out adding any flavour. So I must say I did prefer the marinated version. The boerie rolls were good too, but that goes with out saying.

Eat and Enjoy - notice the lack of greens

It turned out to be a good spontaneous night. The rest of the goat is still marinading for tomorrow's Balck Rock outing where Tiff too can enjoy her gift.