Dinner in Ethiopia

The fun this past weekend didn't stop with cutting our Christmas tree. Saturday evening we had our dinner for Ethiopia, the country we are currently learning about. So far, I've made most of the food for our country dinners, and we went out to dinner for India. This time, we did something a little different.

Filed under the heading of, "You know you have a good friend when..." I talked to my very good friend, the P. Family mom, and nicely suggested that perhaps she really wanted to come and make us Ethiopian food for our Ethiopian dinner. (Some of her children are Ethiopian, and has a lot more experience with Ethiopian food than I do.) Being the very good friend that she is, not only did she continue to speak to me, she and her family made the trek out and did cook us all exceptionally yummy food.


All the different dishes in the process of cooking.


If you have never tried Ethiopian food, you really need to find some and try it. The main part of Ethiopian food is the injera. Injera is a spongy, sour flatbread made out of teff flour, and is not only part of the meal, but also the utensil. The P. family mom bought the injera we had at a local market. (Easy for her to find in the city; really, really hard for us out here in our non-diverse area.) The different dishes are then served on top of the injera, and other pieces are injera are used to scoop them up.


Maybe the P. Family mom will chime in with what these are all called. I know we had doro wat and tibs, but there were others... a lentil dish, a spinach dish, one with cabbage and potatoes, and one with yellow split peas.

Even better than the food was the chance to catch up with friends. It was a wonderful way to top off our Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you again, P. Family!!

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Mom said…
Here's our menu:

Doro Wat - a spicy chicken, onion, and berbere stew that is a traditional special occasion meal (ours was WAY toned down in the spice level!!)
Tikil Gomen - a mix of cabbage, carrots, and potatoes
Yemisir Wat - spicy red lentils with berbere spice
Kik Alicha - mild yellow split peas
Quosta - spinach sauteed with onions
Beef Tibs - chunks of beef sauteed with onions, garlic, with a little bit of berbere

And it was wonderful to share the meal with you. I'd even do it again sometime!
11/26/2018 4:18 PM
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