Solomon Island food

The food people in the villages eat is quite simple but healthy. Most of the people cannot afford to buy food so they are still growing all their food themselves. So gardening is an essential thing to survive! You can find many gardens around the villages and bejond. Some have even to walk for 2 hours to reach their garden somewhere up in the mountains.
The staple food is mainly the root vegetables as sweet potato (kumara), casava (tapioca) and taro. Besides that they have pumkin, green beans, tomato, cucumber, onion, peper, cabbage, slippery cabbage, fern, taro leaves. And then differnet fruits and nuts like pineapple, banana, paw paw, coconut (so many of those!), nali nuts, cotten nuts ...
Fish is also very common because of the near ocean.

Oven, Lochlan, Dyson and me went to some garden to plant some beans. What you can see there is sweet potatoe and casava

some bean seeds which we planted

pineapple :) Unfortunaly we had not much of them because they were not in season :(

some kind of strange, grunchy "apple"

this lady brushes a freshly baked sweet potato

you break it open and the steam comes out! So yummi!

Kelina scraping the mangrove beans which they find in the mud. You scrape it, wash it and can use it later like a vegetable.

a feast meal: white rice, brown rice, sweet potato, taro pudding with coconut cream (the purple folded thing), and casava cake ( the yellow pieces; grated casava baked with coconut oil)

Served on banana leaves :)