In mortar pound black pepper, chilli pepper, fermented African locust beans, and tomato.
Pick kucha leaves from stems, wash them. Pick the bones from the smoked fish which is usually Bonga, bony fish because it is cheap. Place pot with water on fire and add bitter tomato when it boils. Leave until bitter tomato softens. Then add the pounded ingredients and leave it to simmer for a bit.
(In the mean time, my host mom was starching her clothes and me preparing the snack - papaya from the garden...hehe)
Add tomato paste, bouillon cubes, salt, and picked smoked fish. Leave it again to simmer. Cut okra and add it to sorrel leaves in a pot with water.
When it is ready take it off the fire and place another pot with water, sorrel leaves and okra. Boil leaves for a bit until they soften (and water becomes pink:) - saltibarsciu color). Take out the leaves and pound them in the mortar.
Measure rice, clean it, wash it and place it in the pot with water on the fire.
When the rice is ready, add sorrel leaves to the sauce. Mix it. Place rice in a bowl, add sauce on the top and viola - lunch is ready! Bon appetite!
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from The Gambia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in The Gambia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez