Culinary Adventures

A bowl of fresh papaya

MAY 2017

Fresh papaya from the forest region

APRIL 2017

For $20 a week, I get baskets of fresh vegetables and fresh fruit delivered at my apartment!

DECEMBER 2016

Embassy dinner: Jolof rice, peanut chicken, pumpkin puree

NOVEMBER 2016

We get fresh produce every Thursday delivered to our door, all for under $10 USD.

OCTOBER 2016

Fonio: the Guinean version of couscous

This is the water we drink

A bowl of fresh papaya

Cacao cut in half

Fresh cacao

Cacao and coffee beans drying

Roasted coffee beans

Homemade hot chocolate!

Ground cacao

Roasting the cacao

Cacao seeds without the pulp

Cacao seeds covered in pulp

Glenn burned some of the beans

SEPTEMBER 2016

This is what fresh coffee looks like

Green coffee beans (not yet roasted)

Husking the coffee beans

Glenn cooking lunch

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