Day 44 – December 27th

We are enjoying the slow after Christmas time. We are doing less school, so both the kids and I are getting a break. I’ve been doing craft projects and catching up on emails and such. I’ve also been getting quality reading time. I’m loving embracing my inner bookworm!
Since there is not much to report today, I will tell you about food here.
We eat authentic Cameroonian dishes regularly, though we eat plenty of “American” food, too. Most Cameroonian meals have some starch, like cassava, plantain, or fufu (made from corn flour).

Fufu,is usually served with greens that look like spinach, called njama jama. (pic to come). Another meal we have had is Eguise (a seed ground up and cooked in meat bullion) and koko yam.


And we had soymilk made from scratch! Learning the process was cool, and it tastes good! We also make many other things from scratch, like bread, yogurt, granola, and many sauces. We also have to grind meat, but you buy it in market in large cuts. And we get grains ground for flour.
Laurel has also canned, which I wrote about in an earlier email update - she canned chili, meat, corn, pizza sauce, and has canned mangoes in the past. Yum yum!