This post is about the meal that we helped prepare and eat. We did most of the preparation work but the family did the cooking. All the cooking was done outside the house. It was done in the courtyard but under the roof that covered the walkway on two sides of the courtyard. They used either four or five fires/stoves to do the cooking.

The samosas are being cooked in the first photo. They were really good.

This was the fruit drink we had for lunch (2nd photo). We picked the fruit (apples, cherries) and put it in the pot. As the fruit did not look ripe to me, I had low expectations. But I must say that it was an excellent drink. I’m not sure why they like a warm drink on such a hot day but it didn’t keep me from going back for more.

The main cooking operation can be seen in the third photo. The bread oven is behind the woman on the left side. The other two ovens cooked rice and other dishes. They were just getting started at this point.

I got put back to work after the cooking. I was tearing up the bread into pieces in the fourth photo.

You can see some of our lunch in the last photo. Some cooked vegetables are in the upper left. A Cole slaw salad is next to that. Samosas are in the upper right. The main dish was rice pilaf with chickpeas, carrots, garlic, cumin, raisins, and meat. It was an excellent lunch and I definitely ate too much.