An Ethiopian Feast

Many years ago when I first met my real husband(as opposed to the trial run husband) he told me his favorite cuisine was Ethiopian. Being an Alaska girl basically cut off from the rest of the world and busy keeping my carefully balanced life from crashing down around me I was surprised to hear that Ethiopia had a cuisine. Yeah, I know.

Then when we went to San Francisco 2 years ago, I finally had a chance to try Ethiopian food. And yum, hands down delicious, not my favorite but enjoyable nonetheless. The meal consisted of large funky sourdough pancakes called Injera, with various stew like dishes served right on top of them, community style.

I've never been brave enough to actually cook Ethiopian, figuring I would just enjoy it in San Francisco and not ruin it trying to make it at home. My mother in law took another tack. She was in Seattle last week and ran across Amys' Injera, for sale. She bought some injera and cooked up a wicked feast.

She looked up recipes, cooked all day and produced an absolute feast and trashed her kitchen. We had no idea a special dinner was in store for us we just knew we had a dinner invitation. Behold the feast!

first picture on the left is: center)Siga Wot-Ethiopian Beef Stew, left of center)Mesir W'et-Lentil Stew bottom center Doro Wat-Chicken Stew with Hard Boiled eggs, to the right with the zucchini) Yetakelt W'et-simmered vegetables
You eat with your hands, yeah my kids were hating this, by tearing off small pieces of the injera and scooping up different bites to eat.
What a delicious surprise! My husband was beyond thrilled and we were sent home with vats of leftovers and a package of injera for ourselves. My Mother in Law rocks, whew!

Peace and Love,