Although Thanksgiving is not a Swedish holiday, it’s become part of our world now thanks to all our American friends! This year, our Jamaican neighbour Jmackie wanted to do something for her “Nigerien friends”, and set up a whole Thankgiving meal which took the entire day for her!

Over at our end, we had the solar oven work for us (I love that part about never having to watch over the food so it doesnt’ burn), and when we came back home from work, I put together another Famine Food Solar Cooker Casserole (I’ll post the recipe later) and a quick zucchini salad, which by the way has become my most recent favourite “greens”. It’s just fresh zuccini (without the seed part), tomateos, basil leaves, mayonnaise and garlic - simple and delicious! But then I always buy the smaller “zukes” (as Pat calls them…) as their are great both raw and cooked.

Add a sorghum cake to that, and we were off! By the look of things, it seems to be time for me to practice carrying things on my head, as my arm muscles were insufficient… But let me work some more on my Hausa first!

Over at Jmackie’s: the girls in the kitchen

The first guests to arrive: Salisu of Zinder, (Jmackie, radiant as ever!), Abubakar of Niamey & Anette of Ishtar’s Ark

Lovely flower decorations!

As it was Thanksgiving, our beautiful hostess opened up with a little reminder of all the things that she was thankful for, and they were quite a few!

Then we set about to eat…

Talk about food choices!

Jamaican curry beaf stew

Rice

Stuffing!

Mashed potetoes (or “potatismos” as we say in Swedish!)

Zuccini sallad

Then it was time for dessert!

Jmackie had made a sweet potato cake…

… and bought some locally made cakes,

…and we brought a solar cooked sorghum cake (must post that recipe too!), because it is one of Jmackie’s favourites!

And did I mention that the flowers decorations were so beautiful?

We had a lovely evening, and ended up talking of late. Hope you enjoyed it too!