Fried yams and bicycles

The title of this weblog “Sorghum and tro-tro’s” might have been badly chosen. Even though Accra in the south is full of tro-tro’s – minibusses in which at least twelve people are crammed – here we hardly see them. Shared taxis, motorbikes and bicycles are dominating the streets of Tamale. They even have bicycle lanes, what more could a Dutch girl dream of!

So I daily cycle on our far-too-small blue bike with its practical basket in front of me to get water bags or our take-away lunch. That lunch shows the importance of yam, a tuber crop, above the sorghum cereal crop I hoped to see more. But sorghum is excellent for drought and it therefore is more popular further up north. And actually… yam chips are a great lunch. Well, so far at least. Let’s see how many days it takes to grow tired of white bread with omelette for breakfast and yam chips for lunch…

The embarrassing thing is that having been scared away with the stories about Ghanaian cuisine, we haven’t even tried the fufu, banku or t-z yet: the cereal based staple foods. But we’ll soon go to the villages and will have too… But Jeroen, don’t worry: there is plenty of rice, plaintain and red-red bean sauce are nice and I haven’t been “forced” to eat meat yet!

Latest news: we have managed to rent a house for a month with our own kitchen!