Making Pancakes
Saturday, January 27, 2007
After we got back from town yesterday afternoon, it took us a good while to put away all our groceries and other items we had bought. Boxes of oatmeal and pasta went into the freezer to kill any weevils. (Our girls used to call them 'weasels'!) The fresh produce in the market was soaked in water with a bit of bleach added to kill any germs they may have acquired from handling or having been washed in unsanitary water. Then the produce was rinsed with rainwater from our water tank.
After all that, we weren't really psyched up to do any heavy cooking, so we settled on Romanian Pancakes (similar to crepes) which we ate filled with a fresh fruit salad of papaya, pineapple, bananas and grapefruit. Sounds fairly simple, but of course all the fruit had to be cleaned and cut up.
Then there was the flour. The flour sat in our freezer for several days to kill any weevils. Sure enough the flour was loaded with 'extra protein' so it needed to be sifted. To save time later, I sifted a large container of flour.Here is the extra 'protein' I found.
There are 'joys' of living in the Solomon Islands that I had forgotten about when we were in USA...
Labels: food
posted by Martha @ 3:18 PM
