Roasted Fish & Wrapped Cassava (Myondo)

 

Roasted fish and Myondo

 

Hi Guys! what are your weekend plans, mine? to put a smile on someone's face. It's been in my mind to do it and I'll go full circle. Spreading love. I make meals like this when i crave them, this one is by far the easiest. The worst part is peeling the myondo. Arrghh.
Well, lets get this fish party started:

 

The Fish:

This is mackerel, the thing about Mackerel is it's the cheapest fish but it's extremely flavourful. This dish is a staple in Cameroon; Road side food, evening stroll food, Sunday's lunch. Paired with some Ndole to make it a full meal.

 

Wash your fish and coat it with salt, cover with Saran wrap and let it sit overnight, the next day wash off all the salt and pat them dry with a cloth or some bounty sheets.

 

Coat your fish with the sauce (below), and grill on both sides until it looks as crisp as mine, mind you there's a fine line between burning your fish and creating that nice tasty skin.

 

The Sauce: I made the sauce out of

- 4 Tomatoes

- 1 Onions

- 2 tbsp Ginger

- 2 tbsp Garlic

- 5 tbsp White peppers (crushed)

- 2 tbsp Black peppers (crushed)

- Njangsang (click to remember what this is)

- Fresh green spring onions

 

Blend this combination and fry it in peanut oil till the sauce separates from the oil (it's a trick; this tells you that the tartness of the tomatoes is gone and the ingredients are all cooked)

 

Let your sauce cool before you coat your fish with it; use a nice glaze brush for this.

 

Myondo: This is totally Cameroonian and its from the people of the littoral province. It's Cassava grated and fermented and then rolled into leaves. There are two types, Bobollo and Myondo. One is bigger than the other and to tell you the truth i don't thing there is any different other than the size. What i would say is, myondo taste better and is usually cleaner looking.

 

Lean in: They say in Cameroon, when you find a place or person that sells clean fermented cassava you never buy it anywhere else.

 

This is what they look like

 

Gros Bisous!

DMC luv!

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I love hosting but i have to be in the mood and then i get so passionate about it, its easy to cook for people that you care about or that you have a good relationship with. You end up naturally putting love into the meal. (Anyway... i tend to sail in my own thoughts) .

 

I invited my Friend over for dinner, we had been eating out every time that we hung out and so i thought I'd make us a really nice dinner with some good ol wine. These were appetisers. I marinated some shrimp, onions, green peppers and Pollock in salt, pepper, ginger and garlic. By the way, I'm not a fan of Pollock but grilled, it does taste good. I put them on a stick and grilled them for about 2 minutes.

 

Another way will be to stir fry the onions and pepper prior to grilling so that they aren't raw;              2 minutes isn't enough time to take the sting out of onions. She loved it! The main was pasta and the desert was banana cake and caramel ice cream. Make you wanna come visit me huh? ;) lol

 

Have an Awesome weekend guys!

Once again, i'm thinking about you *Big Kisses*

 

DMC Love :)



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  Hi Everyone,                                                                                                                      i had this week where i had no appetite, nothing tasted right. I was yearning for fresh, i needed a burst of flavours in my mouth. Fruits are like chocolate; sometimes you have to close your eyes before you taste it to get the real flavour in every corner of your mouth and every sense of your being. The act alone can turn anything into an aphrodisiac. (God Bless Lisa, my university female psychology professor; made me see  a slice of lindt d'or in a whole different way. Anyway, so i craved fruits and i went on a fruit hull (my sister and i always talk to each other on face time and somewhere along the line we imitate YouTube girls "So i just did a spring hall" bla bla bla.. lol)

In this salad or cup of aphrodisiac and passion i have:

 

Pineapples

Grapes

Blue berries

Cantaloupe

strawberries

Watermelon

1 cup of orange juice and the juice of half a lemon (unifies the fruits and prolongs the freshness)

I bought all the fruits and peeled and chopped them myself, there's a little instrument that is really good for these but i didn't use it. I'll blog about it next time

"If you are really in the mood add a shot of Brandy (my mom always does) It takes this baby to a whole other level."

 

 

I'm looking for all ways to stay in touch with the love i try to spread on this website, hence my blogging on my lunch break.

 

Till we meet again! "DMC LOVE"

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