Eritrean Adventure Kit
Make Injera with Spicy Chicken
Please allow me the opportunity to mail you the secret ingredients you'll need to try cooking this awesome food from scratch. They're from Asmara, an Eritrean restaurant in Portland, ME, and Asmeret, the owner, gets them from Eritrea. If I were you, this would be the best mail day EVER!
What's in the Kit:
(in quantities to feed 8 people)
Teff Flour $10
Sour Teff Starter $5
berbere spice $10
corn flour $1
scented ghee $6
my time $30
shipping $4-20 (depends how far you are)
recipes included
instruction included
Grand total: $68-$82
Hey, it's cheaper than a $2000 ticket to Eritrea!
Full disclosure: "Iss verdy hahd," Asmeret was laughing at the thought of me trying to make injera batter for the first time by myself. I guess it's like working with sourdough starter. Have you ever done that? You start the batter process 2-3 days before the meal. "Easier buy injera," Asmeret says, (we can send you hers already made - it lasts 4 days), "but fun when you kook it." Heck, I don't know about you, but I'm all for the adveture. I'm addicted to those sighs of revelation when you do things, really do them. And you don't get that rush unless you're hands are in the goo.
Asmeret sent me off, "Good Lahk!" I told her I bet I'll be crawling back, begging for her perfect cooked injera and respecting her menu prices!
So, you game?
Lindsay Sterling
Immigrant Kitchens
Lindsay@lindsaysterling.com
& Asmara, An Eritrean Restaurant
51 Oak St.
Portland, ME
207.253.5122
