While I was in the Congo, I asked Father Emmanuel if the sisters and Bea could teach me how to cook. The date was set for Tuesday of the second week where I was told I'd be cooking a chicken from alive to table ... thankfully when I was called to the plate to start cooking - the chicken was dead and even de-feathered. I was only about 3% disappointed since, um, that would have be the craziest I have ever done - and um, I had just flown to a village in the middle of a war-torn country on my own to village where about 2 1/2 people spoke English ... all by myself. Yeah, and killing a chicken would have been crazy! Anyway - I learned to make chicken, cassava, mashed plantains, rice, and preparing cocoa pods for eating. Here are some pics of the adventure!
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Boiling, Frying, and Steaming chicken on the 'stove' ...
yup that's a camp fire! |
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Mashing plantains in the biggest mortar and pestle
I've ever seen ... this is much more difficult than
I had imagined. Sister Christian was amazing at it. |
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The ladies and children who live at the place with the giant
mortar and pestle! They were so happy to have us! |
A few days before that, I shared a recipe with them when I cooked spaghetti and homemade tomato sauce on the fire!
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Never before have I cooked spaghetti on a fire.
It was delish - I'd do it again! |
Now back to cooking in my new kitchen - no open flames around here, but maybe next week in the back yard!
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