Food on the mind, food all around, as usual
Right now, the in-season fruit trifecta is taking place: mango, watermelon, and pineapple! Hundreds of them, everywhere! Cut them up with a little year-round pawpaw and banana and you’ll be enjoying the best fruit salad. Add coconut milk or honey for a sweet new year!
You know what else is in season? Beef! For some reason, butchering buluk is in. I’ve gotten local meat the past 4 times I’ve been to town. This means family burger night every time! The fam thinks it’s hilarious and delicious. We’ve had ranch burgers and dale’s sauce burgers, both equally scrumptious. Burgers should always be described with outlandish words such as scrumptious, mouthwatering, and simply delectable.
My newest goal is to figure out a way to make “Cheeseburger in Paradise” happen. I need to learn how to make pickles, and I’ll be much closer to realizing this dream. Substitute Chinese cabbage for lettuce, the weird sweet tomato sauce at the store for Heinz 57, and a luke warm Tusker for the cold draught beer, and we’ve got it! A second year project for sure.
As for bush kitchen cuisine, I’ve really been treating myself. Cooking has been a relaxing, enjoyable part of my days here! Some of the stuff I’ve been whipping up lately – island pizza, dessert pizza, tomato soup, eggplant parmesan, kumala (sweet potato) hash browns, tuna melt pizza, all kindsa tacos and salsas, and now that avocado is creeping back into season, plenty of guacamole everything!
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| tuna melt pizza |
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| snuck a bite, couldn't wait! so tasty |
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| mediterranean carrot tacos |
One unfortunate thing I have come to discover is the existence of flour mites. Little crawlers living in your flour! I pick most of them out, but I’ve gotten used to the crunch they add.
One morning I woke up to my dad roasting a small pig. Breakfast, no big deal! My brother made a brush out of a piece of wood and coated the pig with the dale’s sauce my grandmother’s friend sent me in a love gift! I’ve never been much of a pig eater, but fresh local meat really shouldn’t be turned down. Here’s some early morning pictures from the breakfast roast!
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| 7 am pig roast |
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| papa manning the pig station |
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| o'brien made a brush from a barau branch! |
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| flavor time |
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| my sweet mama |
children of the corn!
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