It is easy to get creative with all of these options and I’m having a blast learning how to cook in this setting. More to come on the technique of cooking and baking!
As we prepare for our village living stage of our training, we must learn to cook in a village type setting (local foods over a fire). On the weekends we’ve been practicing our cooking skills in our haus kuks (see last week’s post). The first part in understanding the cooking is understanding the food. Now you can get most anything in town, but you may have to pay an arm or a leg for it. It’s much cheaper and easier to buy and cook local foods. Rice and sweet potatoes are staples in the Papua New Guinean diet, so almost every meal includes one or the other. Fruits and vegetables are abundant and cheap. It’s easy from campus to hike a ways to the little mountain market to purchase produce from local gardens. My favorites thus far are the corn, green beans, pineapple, papaya, watermelon, and bananas. Fresh meat can be hard to come by, especially since refrigeration in a village setting is rare. You need to look for other ways to get protein such as beans, milk powder, eggs, peanut butter, or if you really want meat, there is a variety of tinned meat. I also love using Maggi noodles which are quite like a Papua New Guinean version of Ramen noodles. They are quick and easy to cook and you can throw nearly anything in with it.
It is easy to get creative with all of these options and I’m having a blast learning how to cook in this setting. More to come on the technique of cooking and baking!
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David Armstrong
2/9/2015 12:40:26 pm
Way to go, Abby! All the fresh fruit and veggies sound wonderful. But I would be (and am) so thankful for Peanut Butter :-) So, I guess the bleach water must not affect the taste of the food too much.
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Michele jones
2/9/2015 01:07:14 pm
i will be looking forward to all the new recipes and cooking techniques.
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g'ma jean
2/9/2015 04:35:39 pm
Oh, Abby. You continue to amaze me. My prayers are always with you tho often it's almost a mantra of "Father, help her' or 'Father, hold her close'. Thankfully He understands.
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Rita
2/9/2015 09:46:44 pm
We so enjoy all the information your grandma Jean shares with us regarding your experiences on this mission field. We pray daily for you.
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