21/04/2022
Culture change always starts There's no where I take pride in multiculturality like food. Something imbibed from growing up where we had neighbors from every part of Nigeria and we reveled in Edika ikong and Afang and Ofe Anambra and Frejon and the oodles of Ram meat during the Muslim holidays.
So to come here and be immersed in the beautiful and complex multifaceted cultures was heavenly. It meant all those things I had ever read about, I could now touch them and eat them and make them for fun.
Yesterday evening was Chicken Mole...I have had the ingredients for this for a while but could not get my pretty self to begin the worthy toil. Started on Saturday with the sauce and then used it for chicken and then two-bean chili. So like 3 for the price of 1 for reals.
Mole is as beautifully complex and delicious as they write about and the chicken made with it, even more so.
Embracing new ways of being requires openness to experience; a personality trait that can be enhanced no matter how we think we were born.
*Speaking of my mole, I used Ancho, Morita, Pasilla, Guajillo and Chipotle peppers. I added sesame and pepitas and mixed nut butter and the pure roasted Filipino cocoa bean coin tablets known as Tableya.
Did I mention multicultural somewhere?😂😂. Different is as different does. Enjoy your different. Don't worry about a thing cos we alright.
