Food

After my trip to the village, and my stay in the hotel I had definitely had my fill of Nigerian food. I do enjoy it, but I was starting to crave some home cooking. 

The food in the top left is 'farmhouse' with vegetable, a nice combination of beans and plantain and vegetables with some kind of green leaf vegetable. I don't know what exactly, but like The Gambia a lot of the leaves from other crops are used, like pumpkin leaves, aubergine leaves, potato leaves etc. Top right is egusi with chicken, served with wheat - I like wheat as it has quite a nice flavour. Bottom left is pounded yam with a soup made with chicken and vegetable - again I don't know what but it was a leaf that started out like this: 

And bottom right was a mix of green beans, tomato, onion, carrot, fried goat meat, boiled egg and boiled plantain made by my brother in law - pretty tasty as well. 

So, once I got home from the village I went shopping for vegetables of my own. 

I cut up the chicken, froze sections for later use, and then made chicken stock and a chicken stew. Over the weekend I also made chicken breast with pasta and pesto, beans on toast, and jacket potato with beans - the joy of having an oven.

I cooked up a big batch of tomato sauce for the week ahead, and most excitingly I made bread!