what's cookin!?

Many have asked the question: So what do you eat? Here are some answers!

Potato green soup* - potato greens, chicken and other seasonings boiled together and served with rice.
*don’t let the word soup fool you, most often it just means stuff cooked together

Fried baita ball & okra soup – baita balls (mildly hot peppers), okra and other seasonings, combined with fried bottle-nose fish, booni (tasty dried fish – like eating fish jerky!), other sea creatures i couldn’t identify, some spare rib; all this boiled together and served with rice.

Pepper soup – made with the leftover fish heads from a previous soup cooked that day, boiled together with baita ball, okra, other seasoning; this one is actually served in a broth. We had it with cooked fufu (a fine white powder soaked in water then boiled into a slimy-mashed-potato-like paste that has a slightly sour flavour, you don’t chew it, just put some on the spoon and swallow it down).

Fried water green soup – water greens (look like big spinach leaves with some pink on the stems) chopped finely and boiled with dried flying fish and some pig’s feet, plus some vita. Boil it down, use plenty of oil and serve with rice.

Sugared palm nuts – palm nuts (eaten raw by chewing/sucking on them to get the meat that is under the red, stringy skin without breaking a tooth on the pit) fried then doused in sugar and simmered a bit more. Eaten without rice! Haha Sucked on/chewed carefully as a snack.

Rice – most often prepared with vita (like a chicken bouillon cube), baita balls and okra. Accompanied by some meat from a stand up the road – fried chicken, fried hot dog (they say sausage), fried fish.

Beans – because the prep time to soak the beans and additional cooking time (1.5-2 hours) is so long we’ve only cooked with them once so far. We added a dried flying fish (different than booni, flying fish is a bigger fish with more meat) and vita and some other stuff then ate the concoction with rice (of course!).

Bananas, oranges, tangerines, pineapple, oranges, boiled sweet potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, oranges, crackers, peanut butter, oranges, grapefruit, quaker oats with powdered milk & sugar, oranges, coconuts, palm nuts, bread, oranges, oranges, oranges...