St Albans Street Food Festival

I had a fantastic day at the St Albans street  food festival today. The weather, the food, the people, the energy – amazing ! The day was very well organised with food stalls from around the world.

My planned demonstration slot was brought forward a couple of hours at the last minute and I shared with the crowd how to cook plantain pancakes – or tatale as we call it in Ghana.

The crowd certainly enjoyed the tasters – plantain crisps (from green plantain), the tatale and the plantain and Guava pudding (both from over-ripe plantain). The big, bubbling pot of black eye beans and salt fish stew was a real winner.

A truly engaging crowd, I could have gone on for hours.

Thank you St Albans for giving me a wonderful afternoon, see you again soon.

Plantain dishes and black eye beans are always popular on my Tastes of Ghana course at the Novelli Academy.

Side view of the mobile kitchen

The “General” enjoys tasting plantain crisps for the first time

Diners enjoying food and Patti’s samples

Patti in the kitchen starting the plantain pancakes

Patti gives the black eye bean stew a stir

the plantain pancakes are almost ready

the plantain pancakes are ready to go and the compere is eager to test

The compere knows how to cook plantain pancakes now

Enjoying the plantain crisps

the black eye beans ready to go

Patti enjoys the day!