Dinner with friends

[congogirl]

Last night I saw some old friends and some of their friends, all bachelors.  I lucked out because they were cooking, and it was good food!  Why did this surprise me?  I don't know - I guess I usually consider Congo to be generally more traditional when it comes to gender roles.  But I was happily wrong in this case.

Comments

[ljrags]

YUM! That looks good.

Are potato fries just one of those universal things?

[congogirl]

Possibly universal! Also here due to Belgian influence? Normally served with mayo and pili...

[meteoricpath]

oh yum! I am consoling myself with dousing my food in the powdered pepe I brought back from Ghana until I get the real deal again.

[congogirl]

Yeah - I should take a cooking lesson from these guys. The one who made the chicken lived in Ghana.

[meteoricpath]

I should take a cooking lesson from these guys.

oh totally. I learned how to make groundnut stew, but unfortunately that's about all... unless you count how learning to pound fufu. ;)

[kouredios]

Oh, that looks yummy!

[congogirl]

Wish I had leftovers to heat up!

[moon_happy]

A lovely looking feast! Does one "dress" the chikwange in something or with something? I ask because a friend from central africa made a dish for us from smashed black-eyed peas. I've never been able to duplicate the wonderful flavor (we steamed it in grape leaves in lieu of the leaves they used at home. He said it was perfect, though he may have just been polite.)

[congogirl]

I guess normally it's not covered in sauce, but served next to something with sauce, or at least greens that have some wateriness to them. You would definitely not want to eat it alone, but it's a side, not a substance that goes underneath other things.