Field Trip ~ Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant

Tonight our Supper Club took a field trip to Zeni, an Ethiopian Restaurant in San Jose.


We started off with a bottle of honey wine.

One of the staff (the owner?) explained how Ethiopean food works, including how they make the bread called injera. The flour comes from a type of wheat called Teff as shown below.

Looks like Bob's Red Mill makes it so you can try to make your own injera. A piece of injera is shown below.

We ordered a combo veggie, plus 3 meat dishes - Ye Doro Tibs (chicken), Ye-Beg Tibs (lamb), and Alicha Wot (beef stew). There was also a chickpea puree which I think was called Shuro Wot.

Mark your calendars! Our next dinner is September 13th. The theme is copycat recipes. Here are some places to get ideas:

http://www.copykat.com/

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp (note: not all recipes at this site are free)

http://www.recipezaar.com/ (search for "copycat")

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/classyclones/classyclones.html