#charbone

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Lovely work from the cabinetry chaps - this Cookham based project is really coming together. #PaintPaperLibrary colour #charbone https://www.instagram.com/p/CDA8juyJ4j7/?igshid=1u0obd8cs6uz4

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Inktober day 9! Couldn’t decide what pokemon to draw so here’s charbone with a hint of houndour.

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Peanut sauce

Peanut sauce is not new to me. It’s a staple for anyone who has frequented Midd’s Proctor dining hall, and has wanted to make something other than the options on offer.

But my momma’s peanut sauce is the best. Sorry, Mom, not that any peanut noodles you’ve ever made haven’t been good, but my host mom has raised making peanut sauce to a fine art. I got home from class yesterday, and went to greet her in the kitchen, as per usual. (See Ewe post for the importance of greetings). Since she tries to help me practice my Ewe whenever possible, she told me in Ewe that she was waiting for me to make peanut sauce, since I had asked her to show me. I asked her more as a way of assuring her of how much I liked her cooking and as an activity to spend time together, more than I did to rectify my lack of knowledge in making peanut sauce.

Simone cooks over a wood-fueled clay stove or over clay stoves with charbone, or charcoal. (More to come on how this contributes to deforestation and how some of my food security projects could involve the construction of more efficient cook stoves).

Peanut butter, some water, garlic, tomato, cabbage, and onion - pretty standard, right? Then we added piment, the spicy pepper omnipresent in Togolese cuisine. There is green and red piment, and since I am a weak foreigner, I have not yet graduated to the level of red piment. But the green is just fine.

Hungry?