Cooking class - round 2

Yesterday a sister invited us over to her house to show us how to cook some more Guyanese dishes.  I do apologize that I didn’t take any pictures of the cooking.

We did the cart in the morning and then the sister and her mother met us at the market.  We purchased some vegetables and then drove to the sister’s house.  She showed us how to prepare and then cook a few different vegetables.  First we fixed squash.  The squash here look like a large pale green zucchini that you left on the vine too long.  They taste like a cross between a left-too-long zucchini and a cucumber.

Then we cooked some greens (similar to spinach and it has a local name which I don’t know how to spell but sounds like cryla) and then some green beans (they look just like snap beans but have a local name that I don’t remember).  The green beans were cooked in coconut milk.

This prompted questions of the difference from coconut water to coconut milk.  We know the difference between the 2 liquids but they both come from the same coconut right?  Technically no.  Coconut water comes from a young coconut - what we drank out of earlier, and coconut milk comes from a mature (old) coconut, that looks like a coconut you see in an American grocery store.

The sister’s family has a large backyard that has many kinds of fruit trees and a garden.  We took a walk in the back.  I do have pictures of that.

New life!