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What do I eat in Guinea? Well, if I eat with Guineans, it is usually rice with some kind of sauce and possibly meat or fish. When cooking for myself I am again lucky to be in the Fouta because of the veggies that are available (fewer pineapples and sweet oranges, but plenty of lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, cabbage, and mango and strawberry season just started – yeah!). Meat’s not easy to come by; I’ve got to kill the chicken if I want to eat it (though I have learned how) and I don’t even know where to find red meat that’s dead.
For breakfast I eat one of a specific set of things: scrambled eggs or omlet with tomatoes (and ketchup), oatmeal with jam, banana(s) with peanut butter, sweet milky rice with mango (yum). Bananas or eggs are always the best choice if I have a busy morning, but if I’ve got leftover rice or ripe mangoes, then I can’t pass up my breakfast rice pudding. In Conakry you can find quick oats, but I really want to find regular oats in order to make granola.
For lunch and dinner, it’s pasta if I’m in a hurry (although I’ve been using sauce packets I brought from home and those are almost used up, which is particularly what has made it a fast meal). I have two go-to meals when I want to eat good: french toast with jam, which just makes me soooo happy, and sloppy joe lentils, which I’ve been making with a sauce pack for lack of the ingredients, but there’s just something about that sloppy joe taste, can’t beat it some nights. Otherwise, I’ve been making soups, stir-fried vegetables, salads, guacamole (tho the avocadoes here are a little bitter), fruit salads, egg salad, cole slaw. I’ve made banana bread and carrot cake, but wasn’t thrilled with either recipe that’s here, so will be doing some looking around to get better baking recipes – lord knows why I didn’t bring more recipes with me.
Snacks consist of fruit and peanuts, sometimes you can find sugared or caramelized peanuts – yum!
Guess that’s it! Not exactly the same as my Madison diet (some days I could kill for my Cafe Soleil ham sandwich on Honey Oat with yellow mustard, tomato, lettuce and pickle), but I’m sure I’ll learn some more tricks as time goes on!
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