A Taste of Home

Yesterday morning Tina stopped off at a small street stand to get an omelet for breakfast- turns out it was so amazing that I decided to walk into town to have it for breakfast myself this morning! I order, "An omelet with two eggs and toast- sweet bread." The girl working the stand, about thirteen, grabs a small brown egg and cracks it smoothly over a plastic Tupperware bowl, using her knife to pop an even crack in the egg's shell. 

For some reason every time I see eggs being cracked open for cooking purposes, I get childhood flashbacks of either a movie about cooking or actually cooking with my mom or babysitter- the memory is too vague to place, but it never fails to surface. 

Anyways. She cracks the second egg into the bowl then finely uses the knife to slice a third of an onion, then a third of a tomato into same small bowl. She adds a little pinch of salt using the tip of her knife to measure it properly and slowly whisks the egg mixture together. She lights a portable propane burner with a match from a matchbox and heats a metal pan as she squirts cooking oil out of a large water bottle through a pinhole pricked in the bottle’s plastic cap. She pours the egg mixture into the pan and flips it over after about thirty seconds to cook the other side evenly. She then moves her attention to a bag of white, sweet bread and cuts two inch thick chunks out to put the omelet into. She holds the bread in one hand as she uses a spatula to fold the pancake shaped omelet into a 4-layer triangle and slides the triangle between each chunk of bread. She toasts both sides by flattening the bread down with the spatula and her knife, omelet in between. Finally, she slides the omelet sandwich into a clear plastic bag and ties it shut. What a show for a delectable breakfast in Ghana, all for only 2 Cedi (about $1.20). She told me her name is Christy and she will be my friend, I agreed, told her mine and that I would be seeing her again soon!