{"id":480,"date":"2019-05-28T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:07:52","slug":"international-meals-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"International Meals &#8211; Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had been putting off Botswana, because everything I had read indicated that the national dish was extremely simple. Beef, water, salt.\u00a0 Concerned that it might be a bit boring, I just hadn&#8217;t gotten around to making it.<\/p>\n<p>And I was totally wrong.\u00a0 This was definitely one of the simplest meals we&#8217;ve made, but was very tasty.\u00a0 Complete ingredient list for all three dishes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beef<\/li>\n<li>Water<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<li>Corn Meal<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Broth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. You buy cheap beef, boil it for a few hours, then pound it down into individual muscle fibers. Throw it back in the drained pot to brown a bit, and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s served with boiled cornmeal, which is basically grits. Fully traditional would have been amaranth greens as an accompaniment, but spinach was simple and tasty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-481\" src=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190527_184840-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there you are &#8211; simple, tasty, and filling. Nice job, Botswana!\u00a0 Next up, Brazil!<\/p>\n<p>Recipes:<br \/>\nBeef: <a href=\"https:\/\/cookedearthblog.com\/2012\/02\/14\/republic-of-botswana\/\">Cooked Earth<\/a><br \/>\nPap (Corn Meal Mush): <a href=\"http:\/\/globaltableadventure.com\/recipe\/cornmeal-pap\/\">Global Table Adventure<\/a><br \/>\nSpinach: OK seriously, you boil it in salted water for two minutes, then eat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had been putting off Botswana, because everything I had read indicated that the national dish was extremely simple. Beef, water, salt.\u00a0 Concerned that it might be a bit boring, I just hadn&#8217;t gotten around to making it. And I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-meals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}