A new personal record for the strangest bouquet was unarguably shattered today! A good friend of mine Sam, whose wife is quickly becoming my favorite seamstress, presented me with a most beautiful bouquet this afternoon. Sam is an unbelievably generous friend, as most Ghanaians are and has gifted me many consumables from fresh okra to palm oil for cooking. But this time, a bouquet arrived at my house via taxi of not flowers, not chocolate covered strawberries, but Plantains- still on the stem. So many plantains, in fact, I had a rather difficult time carrying into my house after it was delivered. I think when all was said and done, there were around 30 plantains and I managed to consume 20 of them before they began to ripen quickly and were gifted to just about anyone who walked past my house.
Shortly after announcing to Sam I had managed to finish the plantains he assured me another bouquet would be headed my way shortly. Looks like this week’s menu will include plantain pie, plantain juice, plantain bread, and plantain stew.
Enjoy the photo, I think I had already removed several at this point and only then realized the sheer ridiculousness of the matter and went about documenting it.
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