Baba and Mama invited the girls over for dinner today. It was going to be a feast. Lonny and I said we would help out with the groceries and the cooking.
Lonny and Baba spent that morning in town at the market. They picked up flour, oil, tomatoes, cucumber, onions, peas, beans, rice, pineapple, coconut, meat, spinach, and bananas.
I spent the morning in the kitchen making mandazi. Mandazi is a fried pastry similar to donuts. Mama uses coconut as her special ingredient. So, first things first...crack open the coconut. A few hard whacks with a metal rod and it cracks. I get to try the coconut milk. I scrap out the coconut meat with a crazy contraption that has a serrated blade at one end. Definitely hard, manual labour. So three coconuts later and we start making the dough; flour, yeast and rinsed coconut. The water we rinsed the coconut with was also added. We then made small balls with the dough and fried them in hot oil.
Lonny and Baba made Cinnamon Buns. Yup!
We spent most of the day cooking for dinner making sure the ladies had the best of the best. First course was rice, beans, beef stew and peas with a tomato, cucumber and onion salad. Second was Mandazi, Cinnamon Buns and Chapati served with hot Chai. Third was sweet pineapple.
Even though the power has been out for about 3 days we had an awesome candlelit dinner!
Also, the rain has arrived. Mud and the hazardous walk without falling is a daily routine now. At least it has cooled down with the clouds hiding the sun.
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