Full disclosure: I actually selected this week's country last Wednesday. I was showing my co-worker the SpinGlobe iPhone app and this is where my first tap landed. Given the recent strife in the Darfur region of Sudan and in many neighboring African nations, I welcome to chance to highlight an aspect of the country which everyone can enjoy.
Searching for Sudanese recipes only added to my enthusiasm. So many interesting dishes to try! I found a recipe for fuul in a World Community Cookbook I own called "Extending the Table: Recipes and Stories from Argentina to Zambia in the spirit of More-with-Less" that I bought a couple years back at our local Ten Thousand Villages shop. Fuul, the national dish of Sudan, is essentially a savory bean dip that's eaten as a main course and scooped from bowls with fingers or tamia (chickpea cakes) - I'll definitely be making both.
So, without having to shell out the price of airfare, I'm going to jet about 6,000 miles due west from Barbados to Sudan. I do hope you'll join me.
In college, I once wrote a 50 page paper on the food of Sudan, so I am particularly excited for this week!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kelly! You two wanna come over for dinner?! :)
ReplyDeleteHad our Sudani meal tonight. Fuul, Goraasa, Beetroot Salata and Goraasa be Semna. Thanks for nudging us across the Atlantic.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Hope you enjoy our next stop, too - stay tuned, it'll be announced tomorrow!
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