{"id":2467,"date":"2025-08-23T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:43:11","slug":"international-meals-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"International Meals &#8211; Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little bad about this one.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a dish that&#8217;s mentioned on a lot of sites as the national dish of Mali, which is a stew called Tiguadege Na.\u00a0 I found a recipe with a reasonably promising looking source.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; I feel like we just didn&#8217;t quite DO enough.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s remarkably similar to the dishes we made for Chad, the Gambia, and the Central African Republic, so I wonder if we should have tried harder to find something a bit more unique?\u00a0 There&#8217;s lots of reasons why the African countries are frequently challenging, and also somewhat problematic, which <a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=599\">I talk about a bit on the CAR page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So anyway, Mali.\u00a0 Fascinating country with a lot of really interesting history.\u00a0 Timbuktu is in Mali.\u00a0 You can learn more about that in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s8TYei9c-XU&amp;ab_channel=OverlySarcasticProductions\"> this video.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All that said, here&#8217;s the dish.<\/p>\n<p>Brown some meat, then add onions and garlic until they&#8217;ve softened.\u00a0 Our local Save On Foods had some wildly varying sizes of stew meat on offer, but since we were going to braise it forever, it didn&#8217;t really matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2468\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833.jpg\" alt=\"Meat and aromatics\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_172833-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add tomatoes, broth, peanut butter, and Herbes de Province. I&#8217;m assuming the latter is due to the fact that France was the colonial aggressor in this part of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, toss in carrots and potatoes and stew forever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2469\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554.jpg\" alt=\"Stew in progress\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_173554-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It ended up being tasty, but much more watery than in the recipe photos.\u00a0 If you try this one, I might consider doubling the peanut butter at least.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2470\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634.jpg\" alt=\"Peanut Stew\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250823_183634-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s Mali.\u00a0 They can&#8217;t all be huge production numbers, I suppose.\u00a0 Next up, Malta!<\/p>\n<p>Recipe:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/togetherwomenrise.org\/recipes\/tiguadege-na-meat-in-peanut-sauce\/\">Tiguadege Na<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little bad about this one. There&#8217;s a dish that&#8217;s mentioned on a lot of sites as the national dish of Mali, which is a stew called Tiguadege Na.\u00a0 I found a recipe with a reasonably promising looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=2467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-meals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}