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Famine food is supposed to refer to food that is consumed in times of great need and which can act as a indication of famine or extreme difficulties, but more often than not, famine food is a derogative expression for local food in remote places that rest of the world knows little or nothing about. […]
A great wrong is being done to an entire food culture when indigenous Nigerien foods are referred to as “famine food”, just because the West does not know them. When Hilary Andersson of the BBC came to Niger in 2004-05, her team filmed people eating leaves, and Ms Anderson concluded in her reports that they […]
Evening time is when you most often see me putting together something for dinner the coming day. The fun thing for me, is that I rarely do things twice (and even if so, it practically never ends up the EXACT same way…) and since Niger doesn’t have a supermarket where everything is available, you just […]
One of my favourite things to cook are solar cooker casseroles, where I just put in all sorts of stuff and let it cook together.
Today I had mixed carrots, tomatoes, cabbage (a favourite of mine in the solar oven), edible leaves (also known as famine food), spices and some meat (which is the luxury ingredient […]
Anybody visiting our town, will quickly find out that many of the things you once took for granted cannot be bought in a store in Zinder. But that doesn’t mean you have to be without either! One of the things we love to have for weekend breakfasts is yogurt, and since we are Swedes and […]
As we’re always looking for some way of varying our food, I was thrilled when Anette suggested we try to make our own solar baked carrot cake! As most things are in our case, it was a new experiment, but as turned out so well on the first try, we just had to share the […]
One of the things I cannot live without anymore is our simple solar cooker. Whenever you have the time during the day, just chop together some vegetables and put in the fridge, which you then set out in your solar cooker before going to work the following morning. The food will then be ready by […]
When I am in Sweden, I talk so warmly about Niger that one might think I romanticize; about the heat, the sunshine, the tasty (fat-free) food, the rides in the bush and the general super slow-slow tempo (which either kills you with frustration or makes you lead a healthier life…). Although we have been spending […]
Hurray - the mango season has begun!!!
There is nothing like a genetically unspoiled super-tasty Nigerien mango! What some mangoes lose in size, they gain in taste. Guess what we will be living off during the coming months… Hey, I told you we were lucky people!!
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