We KNOW there are various Africans lurking around! READ this

[Zurie]

Please post what you made and ate this festive season!!

Members here will be very interested in reading what kinds of food you made.

[Leggy Peggy]

Hi Zurie and every other lurking African.
I'm not African, but I have spent a lot of time on your wonderful continent.
I travel a lot, too, and haven't visited this forum for ages. Sorry.
Hope to change that over the next little while—before my next travels begin.

[Zurie]

Legs, you have SUCH a fascinating travelling life. Just, please, one day, sit down and write a book!!

It will be a hit! Do not detail too much of the mundane stuff.

Lift out the unforgettables, the terrible, the incredible travelling companions, strange food, sickness, strange incidents, beautiful places -- you know what I mean.

Also: your honest observations of people and places.

It should be a hit. I'll be first in line to put in an order! I am sooo curious already.

[Leggy Peggy]

Oh Zurie, I have enough trouble keeping up with the blog.
I'll put it all there for now. Besides there's no queue and it's free.
http://leggypeggy.com/

[Zurie]

Oh Legs! I forgot about your brilliant blog!! Thanks for the reminder, but yesterday I had to drag myself away -- great self-discipline was needed -- from your blog!! Excellent photos, great writing style, and you go to a lot of trouble to tell the history and the impressions and tales.

[Leggy Peggy]

Thanks Zurie. It will keep going for a long time.
I have lots to tell and I talk too much anyway.

[Zurie]

Ayayayy, Legs ...

Fantastic blog. I'll try and keep up with it. You're a star.

This forum is dead. You can see by the thread headings how I've tried ...

Anyway, thanks a span for posting in here.

I'd give a lot to know what exactly the stats are as far as page views on this site is concerned. We hosts have no idea where we stand.

[Leggy Peggy]

Zurie, the site gets lots of page views.
You can even check here http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo. Type in food.com.

But page views don't make a community. It's going to take time to rebuild.
Zaar was going for almost four years before I got involved. So we wait
and plug away.

P.S. Glad you like the blog.

[JoyfulCook]

Its really dead, I do wonder how many just sneak in and out without leaving a footprint!

[Elly in Canada]

JoyfulCook wrote:
Its really dead, I do wonder how many just sneak in and out without leaving a footprint!

Hi Joy,
The reason I came to this forum was a conversation my daughter and I had last evening about one of the students at her university... she knows he lives on a very tight budget and I thought if I could make some 'large' lunches for her she could share with him....My DD works In admin at the university, but she speaks with him often and sometimes he comes into her office and she gives him fruits, nuts, dried apricots etc.... He misses his family in Africa, but knows he needs an education so he can go back and hopefully, be able to provide them with a better life. My DD and I like all different ethnic foods, so we are up for a challenge and a new adventure in using some different spices etc... She has shared some lunches with him, but he really misses 'his' home cooked foods... not that I expect my experiments will be like his mother's cooking!!! LOL!!!
I have never cooked anything with 'African' spices etc. and have no idea what to make, I have chicken and beef on hand, also lots of vegetables - onions, garlic, eggplant, sweet peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, many dried spices, dried prunes, apricots and fresh coriander and thyme.... any ideas you can suggest would be greatly appreciated....

Thank You!

[Leggy Peggy]

Hi Elly

Welcome to the African Forum
It is so lovely that you are interested in helping this young man enjoy a
taste of home. And you'll be relieved to know that African cooking is not
hard or expensive. But it would help a lot to know which African country
he comes from.

I spent all of 2009 travelling in Africa—29 countries—and encountered so
many different cuisines. Much to hubby's chagrin, I acquired a lot of
cookbooks too.

So ask your daughter for a bit more info and whether this young man has
favourite dishes or types of dishes. Then I could see what the cookbooks
yield, or any other visitor to this thread might come up with some options.

It's like a scavenger hunt. Yay!

[Elly in Canada]

Thanks for the quick response Leggy Peggy!!! I know he is from Abia, Nigeria, as for his likes and favourite foods I'll have to wait on that....
Get back to you later.... next time she sees him.. Elly

[Leggy Peggy]

Thanks Elly, I'll wait to hear more, but knowing Nigeria gives me a start.

[Leggy Peggy]

Just as I hit 'post', it dawned on me that jollof dishes (especially rice) are
very popular in Nigeria. Here a link to the jollof recipes here.

[Elly in Canada]

Thanks!!!! Guess that will be my first recipe.... off to look at them all!!