Had dinner for seven here last evening with Rick, Mmathuba, Kris, Paul and Allie plus their two little ones, Hannah and Levi joining Jim and me. Godwin prepared a large dish of pasta with a vegetable cream sauce and a platter of boiled plantain accompanied by palava sauce (spinach-like greens and beans with a bit of a tomato base). I made a sliced potato-zucchini-tomato casserole along with a cucumber/avocado salad. We should have stopped there.
Hearing that the Catholic Guest House prepared nice roasted guinea fowl (a little too tough for me but a relatively popular item in Tamale), I asked Godwin to ride over and pick up a couple of them for a side dish. Relating that they were out of guinea fowl, he returned with two of the scrawniest looking roasted chickens I've ever seen - tasting quite the opposite of succulent to say the very least.
Fortunately, there was plenty of other food on the table followed by Godwin's delicious banana cake - the best and lightest of any cake he has baked before. We attributed the greatly improved end-result to the new hand mixer recently purchased in town and the one thing I did manage to pack in my suitcase before leaving the US - Davis' double acting baking powder.
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Sounds like a wonderful dinner party, even with your little chickens. And homemade baked goods... you are introducing Godwin to all kinds of new recipes.
Hope you continue to enjoy your time there,
Ann
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