Have this with your coffee and juice in the morning for a light breakfast... mmm...
African Staple Foods
Staples like cassava (yucca root), eddoes, and plantain, make up a large part of morning meals Africa. These staple foods are heavy and provide lots of energy for people to go through their morning.
They are also cheap to eat… cheap in Africa, that is. Here in the States, they may cost just a little more...but not so much that you can’t give them a try.
I particularly love cassava and butter pear. I know it’s not really a breakfast recipe...all you do is peel and boil the cassava. It is a plain and simple, but still delicious, meal. If you like it simple like me.
If you have some time to spare, try out your culinary skills. Buy some calf liver (calf is more tender than beef liver)and make liver gravy . Serve this with
You will have to shop at specialty grocery stores sometimes to find them. But these are common in most US metropolitan areas. This is particularly true for eddoes and ripe plantain. Oriental stores as well as Hispanic stores usually carry an African line of food produce. That’s probably because many of the foods eaten in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are similar.
Break Your Fast With Breads
You can try one of my
bread recipes
for breakfast, with coffee and juice. They really taste great eaten alone. Shortbread biscuits with
mango jam
or
guava jam
and
pawpaw (papaya) juice
is worth the time it takes to puree a papaya.
An easy meal to feed a large family is a
baked eggs and biscuit casserole
that my sister Bendu showed us. I think she calls it dunkin. I’m really not sure why but you can bet 'dunkin' is delicious. I will have to remember to ask her. Mainwhile...