Prepping for dinner tonight - Somali stew. The Xawaash spice mix is essential to Somali cuisine, though compared to Ethiopian Berbere ♥️ it has little heat. I‘ll be adjusting to our taste.😋
#Mtcookbook
pickI absolutely loved flipping through this cookbook that covered several African countries. The photography was lovely and the stories of the women featured were life giving. All of the food looked great but I am most excited to try Rum with Berry Soda from Mozambique, Shaah Cadays (chai) from Somalia, and Chakalaka & Cheddar Braaibroodjies (grilled cheese) from S Africa. #LMPBC will mail this week!
pickA vibrant, lovely book about culture, food, and family. It features a selection of fulfilled women sharing what is special to them and how they describe their place in the world.
I saved quite a few recipes to try - they are all very approachable!
#LMPBC #GroupK
It will be on its it‘s way to you @Bookwormjillk !
It‘s arrived! Thanks @Amandajoy !
This a gorgeous book - I‘m looking forward to it!
#GroupK #LMPBC
If you use a magnifying glass, you can see my 2022 reads 🤣
Reading adjacent goal is to finish up my library and spend more time in it reading.
pickI really dropped the ball on the Reading Africa challenge, but I did found a new author.
Paulina Chiziane is from Mozambique and a Camões prize winner. The book I read is not the tagged one, but it's about a mother and daughter and their lives between the colonial period and post independence.
pickFinally finished this one today - and I must say Dipo Faloyin does exactly what he sets out to do….” breaking stereotypes of modern Africa” 🙌🏻❣️This book contains a lot of information mostly about how often African is pigeonholed into one common idea/place/ culture when it‘s SO much more. This was a bit drier than I expected but the knowledge and insight gained was well worth my time. And towards the very end I got #Mozambique 🙏🏻😁
Another great #FoodandLit meal, this time for #Kenya. Kachumbari (tomato and onion salad), Mukimo with Onions and Greens, Carrot drink, and Basboosa (semolina cake).
so-soMia Couto is a prominent author from #Mozambique, and this is the first in a trilogy set during Portugal‘s colonization of the country in the late 1800s. It alternates storytellers, one a young black teenage girl and the other a white Portugal soldier who‘s been banished to Mozambique for committing treason on a ship. I really didn‘t get that there was a story here, so much as two people describing their lives and how they ultimately interact. ⬇️
