One thing I love about injera is that it is perfect to combine with lots of different foods, not only Ethiopian food. This slightly sour bread is more adequate with strong flavored food, like spicy things. We don’t eat spicy food at home, one reason is that my stomach can’t [...]

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To celebrate Enkutatash or the Ethiopian New Year that started a few days ago, the children and me prepared some cookies. Both of them love to cook, or maybe just to make a mess in the kitchen… so, I took a recipe for making sugar cookies and transformed it into an [...]

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For those of you who live in Oregon or SW Washington there are a couple of events coming in the next days related in some way to Ethiopian culture and I wanted to mention them before it’s too late. This coming weekend, families with Ethiopian children will gather [...]

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I just realized that I’ve been talking about injera for a while, but never posted anything about the main ingredient, teff flour, or more precisely about the grain teff. Teff (ጤፍ ) or “Eragrostis tef” is an ancient grass that originated between 4000 BC to 1000 [...]

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