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When it comes to solar cooking, I like to keep it simple. Cooking in the sun makes every ingredient taste so much. My favourite solar dishes are the simple ones: meat & vegetables, peanut casserole, mushroom sauce. Solar cooking is great when you love to improvise, and although I have favourite themes, I rarely make [...]
Solar cooking is one of the perks of living and working as a volunteer in Niger; a country rich in solar hours. Last Saturday, I posted a picture of a casserole destined for the sun. A lot of people wanted to know how the solar cooker worked, reminding me that it was time for a [...]
It’s been a while since I posted a new solar cooking recipe, but that’s not because I don’t solar cook (because I do on a daily basis) but because I haven’t been trying any seriously new things for a while. The thing about me is that I next to never cook the same thing twice, [...]
Famine food comes in so many varieties, and as you all know by now, I love to harvest from Nature’s Pantry!
For this solar cooker casserole, which was served on Thanksgiving, I started out with lots of Eden leaves, which I crushed in a black pan (which is a must when it comes to solar cooking).
I [...]
Last week, the Eden research department came up with a delicious smooth-tasting oil, and the day after, we tried out the latest solar oven purchase with a whole-grain sorghum bread.
Personally, I adore sorghum, which unfortunately is considered “poor man’s millet”. With the international food racism doing its part on national radio and television, many Nigeriens [...]
As many of you know by now, I rarely cook the same thing twice, and the different leafy vegetables offered by nature’s pantry here in Niger (known by foreigners as famine food) is allowing me to find numerous twists no matter what I make!
For this solar cooker omelet recipe, I started off by mixing fresh [...]
Omelets of various kinds are among my absolute favourite solar oven dishes. The other day, I made a super simple brunch version using eggs, tomatoes, basil leaves and spices. Easy, simple and ready in no-time!
For a more complicated version, I suggest this taste, vegetable-filled famine food omelet!
Ishtar’s Vegetarian Solar Cooker Omelet Recipe
1 dl of dried [...]
Winter (also know as the “contre-saison”) is the vegetable & fruit period of the year, when, if lucky, you get just about anything from cauliflower to avocados and imported plantains.
A stark contrast to rainy season, when all the vegetables and fruits above have gone scarce! I’m fortunate these days if the greengrocer brings me more [...]
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The Eden farmers and their families mix the cooked Maerua crassifolia leaves with crushed peanuts, decorate with an onion and sell it in the village. There is a lot of money to be made this way, because the meal is good!
And so when making one of the two casseroles I was going to [...]
With the Maerua crassifolia (jiga) bushes in my garden full of fresh leaves, I was itching to try a new recipe. A sudden burst of inspiration had me land on making a Maerua crassifolia risotto, with the aim of doing something simple, nutritious and nice - though not overdone. After all, with Maerua crassifolia being [...]
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 [...]
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