Flaming Toast & Head Wraps

Friday, Feb. 29, 2008

Tastes of home are favorite events. Often this begins in the morning with oatmeal or scrambled eggs. Nothing over-easy, here. Yolks must be broken, to cook completely through. And of course, eggs need toast.

In our early weeks, we’d hold a piece of bread over our gas burner, as in the photo. We soon found, however, that as the bread browned, it became brittle and broke off, falling completely into the flame. Our creative solution is now to hold a cookie cooling-rack with the tongs, and place bread on top. This allows TWO pieces to be passed over the flame, without a risk of dropping! We also took the “wimpy” way, for a few days, and borrowed our neighbor’s toaster.

I mentioned in the past blog that you’d be amazed at my attempts to tie a woman’s head wrap. Possibilities increase with the size of fabric one uses. The largest I’ve witnessed was four feet square! Three or four women have shown me techniques, so I took my 2’x3’ swath and tried my hand at the art. In the previous blog you see the “Side Knot” I used for our Valentine’s banquet.

My first attempt I titled “African Spear.”

Next I created “African Arrow.”


But my favorite honors a north Cameroon animal, “African Flamingo.”