Au table, ready to dig in! Binta with her birthday gift
Binta and Ouli finish grilling the beef kabobs!
Well our friend Binta hosted a birthday party dinner at her house over the weekend. She had three kinds of meat (chicken, lamb and meat kabobs). My kind of gal. We had some french fries, french bread, a dipping onion sauce and some crudites. Afterwards we had some hibiscus juice (bissap). These affairs are fun but as Brook remarked, we have the same conversations over and over many times. I think that's part of it. Binta loves to tell the story of my mango hunt when we went to her village. It was in the middle of mango season so basically I ate mangos for 3 days. The trick is waiting for the mango to fall and going to get it. I had one chase actually with a cow who was running for the same mango. Those are picky cows down in Casamance. Binta says they won't eat mangos off the ground anymore. They want fresh ones like us. Lucky cow! Except I beat that cow to the mango when I was there. You know I did! Here are some happy snappies from the party. I've been saving the boar sauce for tonight so we'll have boar lasagna tonight. Very exciting indeed!
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