What We Have Been Eating

Here are just a few things we are eating right now. Things come in and out of season here so we eat accordingly.

We LOVE mango season! It is coming to the end of Mango season, but when it was in full swing our family easily ate 3-5 mangos a day! We did find out however that Nia is allergic to the sap of mangos. It is from the same family as poison oak! Kinda weird. We are just glad that it is not the fruit itself. So as long as we wash it well and she doesn't come in contact with the skin she does just fine.

We also eat a lot of leaves! Apparently they are a vegetable. Really, it looks like you just started picking random things from the backyard like when you were a kid playing house out in the tree fort!

I am beginning to identify the different leaves and although they are all cooked the same, I have learned the special ways of preparing each one!

These are a simple green. All you need to do is separate them from the main stem and cook them.

This is a pumpkin/squash leaf. These you have to snap and peel the stems to get some of the stringiness off. Then you bunch it and shave it into small pieces.

There are a few other different leaves that we eat around here including potato leaves! Did you know you could eat pumpkin and potato leaves?! I didn't but now we enjoy them on a regular basis. I would love to know the nutrition info on the stuff we eat out here considering it doesn't come with labels!

After frying onion, garlic and tomatoes, you add the washed greens. They cook down quite a bit but are very tasty with ugali.

Meat! This is always an interesting one. We have eaten cow, chicken, duck, goat, goat liver, dik dik, fish aka minnows(!)... We have enjoyed cow and goat ground and made into tacos or chili. Mat made great jerky with the dik dik meat. Up until recently, the chicken has really been a bust but we did enjoy it during our most recent taco night with the Hoods. Our neighbor makes great duck, we actually didn't mind the goat liver and as for the minnows, well, they taste like they smell!

We still have no idea what this bird actually is, but Jordan brought it over as a "gift" (which we paid for) for us to butcher. Unfortunately we didn't get to try it because Mat was sick and it died before he felt well enough to butcher it.