Did a lot of experimental cooking today, it was lots of fun.
Caught the boys reading nicely to each other on the bench:
Baby kittens were born next door, so small:
I learned how to make breadfruit today. It is a very tasty fruit that has a consistency similar to bread. It tastes unlike anything I have had before, but resides somewhere in between sweet bread and tofu. First, we cut the top and bottom of the fruit:
Then, they were roasted over the fire to char the outside:
The charred outside gets cut off:
Then, the inside is what you eat, but first you take out the heart (some people eat it):
Breadfruit is one of my favorite things to eat here:
I also got to see the entire process of how dumplings are made.
You need live yeast:
You also need flour and oats in a pot mixed with water and the yeast:
You allow the dough to rise during the day, pounding it once. Then, you roll out the dough, cut it into triangles and fry them up in coconut oil on the stove.
We also made falafal out of chickpeas. It was delicious with garlic sauce.
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