"Shito" > wrote in message
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> My Beloved is from Ghana and since we have been
> together I have had a whole new world of cooking
> opend to me, his mom came to teach me some staples
> but now I am looking for something new to add to my
> bag of tricks. Such dishes as Jollof, groundnut soup,
> light soup are old hat and I am looking for a new taste
> of home. I'll share mine if you share yours

I haven't made any of these recipes yet, but I've particularly got my eye on
abenkwan:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Miscella...rom_12913.html

My husband and I, in a fit of some sort or other, picked up a rather large
bottle of palm oil (the unrefined, red kind) when we were in Hamburg back in
January. Well, actually, no fit involved -- we wandered into a small,
immigrant grocery near our hotel in our quest to find good hot sauce (which
can be difficult to find in Copenhagen), and found a group of Ghanaian men
socializing on their way home from work. We were taken in hand and shown
around, and the palm oil was highly recommended for tasty cooking, so we
bought it (we also came away with some really good West Indian habanero
sauce -- the nice part is that the husband's in Hamburg fairly often, so the
hot sauce is pretty much "readily available" ).

Anyway, I think the abenkwan sounds really interesting -- I'm just concerned
about how much red grease is going to be flying around the kitchen during
the boiling period, and not looking forward to the clean-up process. Once I
get over that, I'm good to go
-j