Mmm...

Last Saturday, Pa helped us cook "country chop" over the fire in our living room: that's roasted plaintains, "soya" (=meat on a stick, which was the best we've had so far here--tender and juicy!), and of course (not in the picture) fufu and njamanjama! Fufu is a staple of everyone's diet here; most Cameroonians we know eat it every day. It's a thick, pasty substance made from corn or rice. You roll it with your hands and use it to pick up the "njamanjama," which is huckleberry leaves that have been cooked with oil and (often) the juice from a pepper known as "pepe."