Food

Eat your hearts out:

These are all in my kitchen. Spices, the single gas burner, a nice photo perfectly illustrating the clash between tradition/modernity, and ONIONS for an army (or for a giant household of 14ish).

We made Ceebu Jeen (Senegal's national dish literally meaning fish and rice) with Ramadan, his sister, and their devil nephew Junior.++ 1 kilo rice =

Which you eat communially!! YUMMMMM
Junior got Cocacola in his bottle. Questionable decisions.

Then we went back and made them chicken strips and garlic mashed potatos but you all know what that looks like...

Food here is super tasty, no complaints. Per usual I'm going to be lazy and just make you a list

• Breakfast-Safeway style baguette with butter and nescafe (nothing special)
• Ceebu Jeen-fish and vegis stewed whole in a tomato-based sauce then removed so you can cook the rice in the same sauce. There's also a 'white' variety but I'm not entirely sure how you make that one other then leaving out the tomatoes.
• Yaasa poulet or poisson-white rice topped with thick onion sauce (that they also put in sandwiches, on salads, and anything else that needs a little flavor) and served with either fried whole fishies or lemon chicken.
• Maffe- beef (I think) and sweet potatos cooked in a thick tomato qnd (fresh) peanut (butter) sauce and poured over white rice or couscous. It's hard to pick a favorite but this one might be it. It's super earthy tasting and super delicious.
• Supocanja- this is the only dish I HATE here. It's a slimey okra and tomato sauce filled with fish chunks, fish bones, sea creatures and little else. It's usually poured over white rice which is nice because you can dig out the rice from below, however, my family once served it alone with spoons which was a horrifying experience.
  

Lunch is always a variant of the above dishes. I got really lucky with dinner at my house: we almost always have a salad with grilled meat/fish and onion sauce as opposed to most households' preferance for hearty starches and sauces.

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