Fermenting injera–notice paw print on left; haha, just kidding.
Well, I’ve been watching mama make injera, which is an African bread, Ethiopian, actuallyl, that serves as a plate and also as a lovely scooper-upper for the food served with it. Mama is making a curry and thought that injera might be a change from chapatis, which are the usual curry scooper-uppers, but since her step-grandkid is visiting and has spent time in Aftrica, she thought maybe injer would be a reminder of his African days.
Maybe he has never had it! Well, we’ll see. It is sort of like a pancake batter, but fermented, and is poured into a hot pan in a thin layer and cooked until little bubbles form on the top, at which point the “pancake” is ready.
Mama used to make spiced bread from Africa and has a huge basket in which it was served and that was pretty tasty, so this is a departure from ye-wolo-ambasha, which is incredibly good with African stews such as doro-wat.
She’s not going to be making this until later today, so I’ll try to keep you informed in the next blog, but from here, it looks like a go, haha.
Maybe I’ll just stick my paw in to stir the batter a little to help. It’s bubbling a lot and I think I need to break up the bubbles for mama.
Uh, oh, I hear her yelling LOULOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN NOW!
I’m outta here…
Mama says she’ll tell you about chapatis later after she catches me.
We’ve never heard of that bread before. But then again, we’ve never had Ethiopian food. It’s hard to find it on our island.
Love the picture of you scarpering outta the kitchen Loulou!
Your Mum is a living encyclopedia of breads.
Luff
Mungo & Jet
Well, she was a professional baker and so had to know a lot about what gets a rise out of things, haha.
So you’re running downstairs out of the kitchen? Looks like a long flight. Jan says she’d love to go up and down for exercise but she’s happy to not live in a home with inside steps any more. We think it’s age-related, but it might be the klutz thing.
Actually I’m running toward the kitchen but I didn’t have any photo of me running OUT of the kitchen…have to work on that one but I love BEING in the kitchen so it’s not easy.
I enjoy Ethiopian food. Don’t know what a lot of it is called, but I like it. There is an excellent selection of restaurants from around the world in this city, including Ethiopian. Until it got too hard my niece and her family used to visit from Iowa, and they would try different ethnic restaurants with me. Her husband is disabled and she has too many children…. One of my favorite restaurants, however, is Greek!
Oh, I have good recipes for spanakopita and grape leaves and hummus and all…maybe one day mama will help me with a Greek blog but it’s all Greek to me, haha.
Funny. Or not. My favorite Greek restaurant is called “It’s Greek to Me”! And spanakopita is one of my favorites. That and the little (think huge, really) spinach appetizer they have. I have taken out of town relatives there and they ask to come back to that restaurant whenever they come here! I certainly don’t mind!
I am Norwegian and German. Funny or not.
What a great name for a restaurant! Yes the spinach things are so, so good. I believe they are called spanakopita but maybe there is a larger thing with spinach. LOVE Greek food.