I call moments when things happen here that wouldn't happen at home This.Is.Africa moments. Not having internet for 3 weeks is one of those, but I'm excited to be back an in action! Another This.Is.Africa moment is me cooking Banku over charcoal! It was so fun! Ok, so maybe I am not Ghanaian, but I’m starting
to learn the tricks to cooking Ghanaian food so I can bring it home to the
US. Wondering what I eat here in
Ghana? In the mornings I usually have
some bread. If it is the weekend I get
to have an omelet, which is by far one of my favorite parts of the week. For lunch we usually have rice with ground
peppers and greens over the top. For
dinner we usually have fufu (cassava and green plantains boiled and then
pounded into a sticky raw dough like consistency), banku (cassava dough and
maize mixed with water and boiled until it again makes a sticky raw dough like
consistency), or akple (maize and water boiled until it becomes thick just the
same). Each of those is usually served
with some kind of stew. My favorite is
groundnut stew, but you don’t get that often because groundnuts can be
expensive. Most of the time the stew is
made of either okra and greens or okra and garden egg (like egg plant) and has
peppers, onion, garlic, dried fish and sometimes tomatoes. Last night I helped make the banku. It is not as easy as it looks! Cooking with the kids (them laughing all
along the way) was really fun and reminded me how much I miss cooking at
home. Before I left life had gotten to
be very busy and I found that I didn’t cook much from scratch, now living here
reminds me that cooking from scratch makes the food taste so much better, is
relaxing, and is a way of showing love to your family.
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