Cat Fish for Che bu dien

Erin's been taking cooking lessons since she arrived here. She cooks Yassa like a pro, but yesterday she cooked the most complicated Senegalese Dish. Che bu dien. The process takes four hours, including the market visit to buy all the fresh ingredients. These days good fish in Oussouye are hard to come by but meat is even more expensive and difficult to find. The cat fish was a new skill Erin learned last week at cooking class. The cat fish doesn't have scales the same as other fish.

The Che bu dien cooking turned into even more of an adventure the dog stole the fish when we weren't looking, the gas got finished during the cooking, then the coal got finished during cooking and finally we finished cooking the rice over a wood fire.

It was an adventure but the food was fantastic.