Food

I thought I would do a page on some of the foods we eat on a daily basis here. I would say there are 3 main dishes that we eat over and over.

1. Yaasa: an onion-based sauce served on rice

2. Ceebu yapp/jen: cee (rice in wolof), yapp (meat) and jen (fish). This is probably the most common dish here. Rice and meat or rice and fish all mixed together

3. Mafé: a peanut-based (l'arachide) paste service with rice

Of course every household has its certain way of preparing each dish so it tastes a bit different wherever you eat it.... we all have our favorite cooks :)

This is the yaasa served at WARC

Ceebu ginaar (chicken)

A seafood meldly at WARC

We eat a lot of this kind of fish... not sure what it is but it's super tasty and the meat falls right off of the bone.

Cooking the yapp for ceebu yapp

Ceebu yapp

Ceebu jen in Sonkone (on our field trip)