Pizza and Eggplant On The Menu

As I sit here writing this entry, our little stove is in several pieces along with various tools left behind by Ishawu, a nice young man who works at the appliance store in town. Ishawu has now gone to see if he can locate something close to a duplicate of the broken mechanism wich evidently regulates the oven.
Last night, Andy and I actually managed to make our own pizza even though the temperature seemed to hover at a steady 300 degrees instead of the recipe's recommended 425. Our crust wasn't exactly on the crisp side, but the veggie toppings along with some pepperoni brought from home did the trick.
Abdulai, our loyal night watchman who is here daily from 6PM to 6AM, is a farmer by day. His first gift of produce soon after I arrived was a vegetable that resembles a cucumber or zucchini but with a softer outer skin texture and very large seeds. I have to admit that it didn't have much appeal to either fry up or even add to a stew. Yesterday, however, he handed me a real treat - about five or six hearty eggplants. Here, the eggplants are not very long - more rounded or pear shaped - and are referred to as "garden eggs." Yum!
Now if only the stove can get put back into one usable piece....