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As I have mentioned in posts pasts, I am not a great cook. I do, however, try to make Ethiopian food occationally. I was excited to find berbere at a reasonable price in small amounts a few months back. I have used in in Ethiopian food and whenever another recipe calls for a spicy pepper. I have done this for MONTHS. I have told the kids everytime I used it for MONTHS.
Tonight I make a chicken in a crock pot and used berbere to spice it up a bit. I mentioned this to the family and Mita and Enu went crazy. “You have berbere!” “I want some, I want more!” They rolled corn on the cob over it, dipped chicken in it and Mita asked to lick the plate, while Enu tried to lick her fingers off. In all the fuss Elle demanded some and her she proceeded to drink a lot of water while her eyes were so wide it was cartoonish!
When they settled down, I mentioned that I have used berbere many times before and had told them about it. Of course, they don’t remember as kids are really go at doing!
It was fun to see them so excited over something Ethiopian. As I have mentioned before at times the girls shy away from their home culture. We keep Ethiopian culture in our everyday life, but every once in a while they get really excited and that is priceless and worth the searching online and paying for shipping!
Berbere anyone? In April I wrote about how we planned on celebrating our year as a family. I metioned where I got my berbere, if you are interested.
Here are some links from Mary Owlhaven, AB’s former Ethiopian blogger. She was much more domestic than me and I adore her posts!
