Over the past week I have been feeling sick. What I initially thought to have been malaria has now passed and I am left with nothing but a sore throat. However, this week of sickness has meant that I was able to catch up on missed sleep which was SO nice. I also managed to make a chicken noodle soup (from scratch), bake banana muffins and tidy my house. Turns out I get domestic when sick.
But I have been busy. Last Saturday I had a fun time at a lady's house from church, Ruth. Ruth sings in the choir and invited me around to learn how to cook. I arrived promptly at 8am. But seeing as I am living in Ghana, 8am to a white person actually means 9 or 10 for a Ghanaian so I watched some Ghanaian evangelism TV while waiting. We went to the market and bought our ingredients and began cooking. I can't believe how much I ate in the space of about 3 hours.
1) I ate her left over Banku (heavy dinner meal),
2)then we had Fried Plantain (delicious),
3) followed by Tilapia (whole fish). The Tilapia was cooked in some incredible tomato hot sauce.
4) Following this we had Rice Balls and Groundnut Soup. I helped make all this but I doubt that I can recreate any of it. Many more lessons to come.
All of this is eaten with your hands.
This Saturday, my girls' group are coming to make Jollof Rice at my house. I am expected about twelve 14-15year old girls to be coming. I am sure conversation will revolve around boys, cell phones and scandals that happened at lunch the previous day. Photos to come.
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