Last week we decided to choose a random country and cook a recipe from it. Italian, Chinese, Indian, Mexican cooking etc is very common these days...but there are lots of other countries that can be explored! The internet gives us possibilities to find recipes from anywhere around the world (although sometimes it's difficult to find the ingredients if you don't live in this country).
We decided on African food, since this isn't so common in Europe (or most other places in the world). Then we chose a country that had an interesting sounding recipe and which we didn't know very much about. This turned out to be Sierra Leone.
The recipe we cooked can be found here:
http://recipes.wuzzle.org/index.php/26/79
The combination of peanut butter, hot chilis (this proved to be difficult yet again - see my previous post - so we used some Texan hot Habanero sauce), thyme, and bay leafs turned out to be superb. I can absolutely recommend it.
We also took a look at the creole language Krio, as well as facts about the country and listened to some traditional Sierra Leonian music from myspace. (This way we discovered Freddy Shabaka, who is a great Reggae artist from Sierra Leone).
http://www.myspace.com/freddyshabaka
To conclude we watched one of the few movies that is about Sierra Leone (but unfortunately filmed in other African countries): Blood Diamond. Excellent but shocking movie about diamond smuggling and rebel wars etc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/
More of these random cooking evenings will follow for sure!
Hmmmmmm,war sicher lecker !!!
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