This one can be done as an appetiser, or as a side dish. Take some ripe plantains (cooking bananas), and slice into ~1cm disks. Throw into a hot frying pan (one layer) with some oil and fry on both sides until they turn yellow (~5 minutes). Remove from the pan and squash each piece into [...]
This one came inspired, and mostly instructed by Omar. Fry about 200-300g of lamb with onions in a pot. When it’s well fried, throw in about 1kg of roughly chopped okra (remove the caps first), two potatoes chopped, a 500g tin of chopped tomatoes. Season with two lemons, salt, pepper, 4 whole cloves of garlic, [...]
We’re suffering here: cheese is expensive and bad… but, to make it up fish and shell fish is (relatively) cheap! So last night we splashed out and got a bottle of wine ($14), 1kg of clams ($13), a really good french bread ($2.75) and made ourselves a fantastic dinner: Fry a small onion and garlic [...]
Unfortunately we forgot our camera… so I’ll have to try and paint the picture with words. This morning when I woke up, the sun was shining, and there was a strong wind blustering the feathers of the many birds picking at the pine tree outside our window. It was so lovely it inspired me – [...]