Why hobbit food you ask?

Have you ever wondered what hobbits eat? This question never occurred to us until one Sunday night where we used left over boiled, mashed up tubers to cover a hard boiled egg. We took this concept from a Guyanese dish known as Egg Ball. Which really is a hard boiled egg covered in a single root called cassava. After we fried up these tuber balls and were sitting down to devour them Tony said, "Sara, you cook like a hobbit and it's awesome" which then turned these tuber balls into hobbit balls. This also got us thinking, "what else have we cooked that's been inspired through the use of local ingredients and cuisine?" From this our blog was born. But if you're actually looking for foods that hobbits eat you won't find them here. But we do hope you enjoy our creations!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Peanut Butter Pumpkin Chili

It's the fall season back home but, sadly, there's no change in the weather in Guyana...it's still hot!
A lot of the favorite fall foods we know and love are available year round here...I've been eating a lot of pumpkin and sweet potato for months already. But I've definietly been craving familiar fall foods like pumpkin cookies, pumpkin spice lattes, candied yams, and of course pumpkin pie (I did make yummy pumpkin cookies!). So in spirit of the fall season I experimented with some fall ingredients and whala....
Beans
Sweet potato
Pumpkin
Tomato
Sweet peppers
Garlic
Onion
Ginger
1 tsp peanut butter
Cinnamon
Cumin
Olive oil

Pre-cook beans, sweet potato and pumpkin, until soft.
Heat a little olive oil in kahari or frying pan and saute garlic and onion throw in the pumpkin with a little water, let simmer for a few minutes than add all other ingredients and mix well making sure the peanut butter is melted and evenly coating everything.

I thought it tasted pretty good but to make sure I wasn't being completely crazy (I wasn't sure about the peanut butter) I had Tony try it...he liked it!
It would be really good over rice.

~S
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