One of the sisters does some catering in her free time and cooks for the boarding students occasionally. This is a wedding cake she made. I have tried the cake and it doesn't taste anything like the cake we eat in the States. It is not as soft and moist. It is more like a bread with raisins. The cake does not have icing, just a layer of fondant. I do like the cake, but I don't really consider it to be cake. I think of it more like a bread I would like to eat with my coffee in the morning.
This is a calabash, the traditional Nigeria wedding cake. When a man wants to marry a woman, he must bring a calabash of palm wine to her family.
This is a cashew fruit tree. If I was ten it would be the perfect climbing tree.
This is a cashew fruit. The yellow part is an extremely acidic fruit unlike anything I've eaten before. I don't really like it. The green part on the bottom is where the cashew that we eat in the U.S. comes from. You cook it and take the shell off.
This is a jack fruit. It kind of tastes like bubble gum. I like it, but it's very sweet so I can only eat a little bit. I have heard that you can find it in the U.S., but I've never seen it.
We attended a meeting with all the sisters of this order in Nigeria. It lasted for four days. This is were the cook and the postulants (girls preparing to be sisters) cooked the meals for approximately 80 people. We tried to help, but weren't really given much to do.
This is the cook grounding crayfish to go in one of the many dishes Nigerians use dried crayfish. It is one thing I don't think I could ever learn to like.
This is their version of a taxi. It is called a keke. It's pretty inexpensive, but a little scary to ride in. There are regular taxi cars, but they are not as easy to find and I think they are expensive.
I wish I had been able to get a better picture of this, because it was pretty impressive. The man in the picture is carrying a giant stack of books on his head. People commonly carry things are their heads. It's an impressive skill that I just don't have.
Great photos Kaci! And you know I love a good photo...or 300-400 good photos! HA! I think I would go crazy documenting things over there. I mean, I just got back from my nephew's wedding in Colorado and took over 200 on my iphone alone! And this was just in one night!
ReplyDeleteI would imagine it's a little different there - not sure how easily it is to charge your phone or other things - like a camera battery. Of course, then there is that pesky problem of backing them up on your laptop!
Anyway...keep posting photos! It is so true that a picture is worth a thousand words...