African Goat Stew

[hippywife]

This is what I'm making for dinner tonight, on a smaller scale, tho. The recipe isn't well written but I think I can put it together okay.

http://www.foodreference.com/html/burgoor1.html

[yellerpup]

1. Too late to book a flight... Dang!

Seriously, I checked! :loveya:

[hippywife]

2. I knew that was you...

before I even opened it. LOL

I will try to find some time to PM you later, k? Lots to do so I'm just hoping at this point. Been dragging my feet on all my chores this weekend.



:loveya:

[yellerpup]

3. Cool!

I'm catching a cold, I think, and trying to get better in time to work the election on Tuesday. Sixteen hour+ days don't go well with being puny. Lots to catch up on and will look forward to hearing from you. At least I can give you a germ-free :hug:!

[hippywife]

6. I'm sorry to hear you are feeling so puny, sis.

Sounds like it's time to rest a little and take care of you. :hug:

[yellerpup]

7. IB OK.

No worries, sis. :pals:

[Callalily]

4. This looks like a great recipe

to make, although I don't know where I'd get the goat in my area. Obviously, substitutions are allowed but I suspect one would miss the true "soul" of the food.

Please let us know your results.

[hippywife]

5. I get mine through our coop.

There are about four producers who raise goat.

Not sure where in WI you are but I checked www.localharvest.org and there seems to be lots of goat available up there all over.

http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?st=53&ty=-1&nm=goat

I was a little unprepared and the recipe so poorly written. I didn't have any beef stock (thought I did but forgot I used it a couple of weeks ago) and the only thing I had to replace it was some white wine. I through in a cup of that. The recipe says tomato puree (in the instructions, it's missing on the ingredient list) but I had paste so used a small can of paste and about 3/4 cup of water to make up the liquid.

Instead of 1/8 t. of ginger and 1/8 t. of cloves, I used 1/4 t. each. I also didn't finely dice the meat. It's stew meat and I just left it as is. I just really figured since the recipe is so incomplete, I could do what I wanted within limits.

It's simmering away and smelling pretty good.

Edited to add: I had half of a medium red pepper left over from last night so I diced it small and threw it in there, too.

:hi:

[Warpy]

10. There are ethnic groceries here in NM

and I imagine there are ethnic groceries on both coasts that offer it, usually frozen and marked "cabron" or something in another language. If that fails, you'll have to find a goat dairy and find out if they have kids to slaughter in the spring.

Jamaican coworkers once fed me curried goat. It was pretty good.

[hippywife]

8. It's finished...

and it's delicious! If I hadn't made a stirfry last night, I would make some rice and serve it over that, but we are going to eat it as a stew with a green salad on the side. :9

[htuttle]

9. African food is one of my culinary blindspots

From the ingredients in the recipe, it seems like it would taste like it came from somewhere between Kolkata and Thailand.

I had a bread bowl of East African chili once, and all I remember of it was that it was just REALLY hot. I don't remember it being as fragrant as the ingredients in yours, but maybe that's an east vs west African difference.

I might try to substitute yams or something for the goat if I make this, due to my current meatlessness.

Thanks!

[hippywife]

12. I'm not saying this is authentic, because I'm not sure.

I used to spend time, probably 25 years ago, at the home of a co-worker and her friends from Sierra Leone who threw what seemed like monthly parties. All I remember is some kind of tripe soup which I never did eat.

[Inchworm]

11. I wish you lived near me!

I've never had goat lol

:hi:

[hippywife]

13. Check the local harvest website, Inchie.

http://localharvest.org

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