Danielle and I prepared a variety of African chicken dishes to take along to Casa Innocentia where we met the sisters Dulobu- our stars for the day.
They found their kitchen at the casa too hot to work in and had built some fires on their patio to cook. Despite the heat we all worked fast and efficiently (sometimes things just fall into place) and had some time to feast on some of the Mozambique specialties- the family’s famed spicy duck-“chacutim de pato”, delicious okra with shrimp in coconut milk and “matseu” a local dish of stewed fresh pumpkin leaves with peanut.
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Towards evening we headed off to their mum’s house to take a portrait of daughter Lilita and mom Dona Serafina. What a warm and welcoming woman. Her home is a beehive attracting all who need a plate of food, a kind word or something to drink. At 74, Serafina’s eyesight is not what it once was but when checking the photos with photographer Sean, even without her glasses, she commented that her daughter was perhaps showing a little too much cleavage!
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