The Fijian Food

I have decided to get into the spirit of my Fortieth Birthday Love Explosion I need to sample some Fijian food.  I have scoured the internet looking for a Fijian restaurant in the Washington Metropolitan area.  Guess what? NADA! You can find recipes and pictures of Fijian dishes but not one restaurant in the area. So I guess I will have to try my hand at making some of the recipes... I am not the greatest cook or the most patient person.  I have been known to freestyle with recipe ingredients but I am going to really give this the discipline it calls for so that I may prepare my palette. Yes, I said palette.  Some of the dishes sound perfectly delicious.  They have bibingka (also a popular Filipino dish) which is a kind of bread made with cassava, coconut cream, sugar, egg, and cheese. These ingredients are mixed and topped with a little extra grated cheese then baked. The Fijians usually bake this at night and serve it for breakfast in the morning. Doesn't it sound scrumptious? They also have this topping or sauce for seafood that sounds yummy as well, it is called miti. Miti is thick coconut cream combined with onions, chillies, juice from a lemon, salt and pepper. I am salivating here. Some of the dishes sound like something that is more of an acquired taste but I am willing to give them a shot as well. Take coconut fish soup a soup made up of fish carcass&heads, coconut cream (of course,) chillies, lemon slices, and water.. sounds like something. Other dishes sound like meals I do not even want to try at all. Kokoda which is a Fijian spicy fish curry.  It is a served cold and the fish is raw. Not digging that at all.

I am going to start making the dishes that I am feeling this week and I will let you all know how they taste...but not the kokoda because I am NOT eating that dish. There is a dessert I am going to eat - coconut balls..