gourmet in ghana

We are shmancy people. That is basically what it comes down to. We are going to eat like kings this semester.

By the way, it's Zahava. I am taking a stand and establishing my place.

The story begins a few days ago. We were starving. We'd been starving since. We could no longer live on a diet of dry cereal, calcium chews, and small tuna packets. Something needed to be done. So today after Twi (a whole other amazing story in itself), Rivky, Yamit, Mufleha, and I went to Shoprite. Oh yeah, we've got a Shoprite! Turns out it's basically Glatt Express. The whole freaking store is full of food with South African hashgachot! There's even OU tuna! There were cookies, oil, butter, cream cheese, ice cream, and lots more. We don't have a fridge yet, so we didn't buy much, but oh we made lists. We were freaking out in the store. Mufleha was pushing the cart and laughing. We were screaming and making a scene. When we noticed an Israeli product, we really lost it. A Ghanaian guy came over to us, who we thought was going to yell at us for making a scecne. But he just asked us if we were Israeli and told us how tzioni he was. We bought limited foods that came out to 63 cedis (the currency, pronounced CDs, 63 cedis = no more than $63), including four packages of OU tuna, yeast, flour, sugar, oranges, and yams.

We got home and were totally pooped. The plan was to make our dinner right away, but we got back at 9pm and were hot and exhausted. We each went on Skype for an hour. Around 10:30, we were ready. We set up music and assigned positions: Rivky on the eggs, me on the yams, and Yamit on the running around to get things. The eggs are brown shelled (surprisingly though in the nine eggs, there were no bloodspots). The yokes are super light, and the omelets looked and tasted like egg-white omelets. The yams are white too, similar to potatoes one might say. But they taste like yams. Then we had oranges for dessert. Then we had tuna. Then we had crackers. It was a freaking five course gourmet meal. It was great. And they say there is no kosher food in Ghana. Pshaw.

We are going to eat like kings.