Imported from 1970

No, not me. I was a couple months early for that.

I find that when I'm searching for new recipes, checking in other hemispheres sometimes strikes my domestic fancy. So I found this West African Cookbook, published in 1971. And true to the decor of the decade, the only colors available for the book jacket are brown and orange.

I tried to go to Amazon.com to get an image but apparently there isn't one. See? (it's pretty dark, so maybe not)

They have one copy - and its used and you can have it for 60.16 before shipping charges.

Funny enough, what I needed to make tonight from this book was also brown and orange. I made Yam Fritters.

So easy to make and they are SO tasty. But if I fried up a diaper it would taste good. Fried anything usually is pretty decent. And a recipe usually loses me if it poses too many appliance accomplices (a food processor is a kiss of death for my interest), teaspoons of every herb on the shelf, or broth of any kind.

Tomorrow night I will make my attempt at getting Humanling to eat these.

Now they're looking a little chicken nugget-y but I assure you that not one feather was plucked for this display. In case you're wondering, this is one large yam, cooked and mashed. Then simply mixed with one egg and flour - just enough to make it dollop correctly.

Oh and one more color was added to the queue. Black. While I was 'multi-tasking' in the other room. So I guess I get the unphotogenic, crispy ones.