Recent Meals

Last night for supper we had fish served with our choice of either fish or banku. Banku is a fermented cornmeal dough served warm. I chose the rice, but tasted the banku. It was very interesting kind of like sourdough, not the bread, just the warm dough. It is a favorite meal of Ghanaians. The fish was also interesting to me. It was a whole fish with just the head cut off. I heard that many Ghanaians eat the head as well, but it's cut off for foreigners. So to eat the fish, you dig your finger into the side and peel back the meat from the bones. Everyone ends up getting some bones in their mouth, but its not a big deal. When your finish with one side, you just flip it over to the other side; or you can try to pull most of the bones off at that point. At the end of the meal we had watermelon.

Today after lunch our Ghanaian brothers were sharing a drink that looked like grape juice called sooboro. They call it the 'missionary drink' because it is made with lots of herbs and healthy plants and can be used to help traveling missionaries stay healthy. I tried some and it was a bit bitter.