Mauritius

After an 8 and a half hour flight from Perth, I arrived in hot, humid Mauritius on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, I've been sick with a fever and all since Tuesday! So I haven't been up to much but sleeping and recovering. I have, however, had one of my favourite mauritian meals; rougaille of salt fish with rice and orange lentils! With of course a side of masavarou. And tomorrow, farata is on the menu, which is another must try if you're on the island. Farata is a type of Indian wrap, usually served with curry and a chutney, for example, white bean curry and tomato chutney. If I can contain myself for a few seconds, I'll take a photo before digging in.

Rougaille is a tomato sauce that can be used as a base for many meats. In Mauritius it is commonly served with rice, and either sausages, or beef, or salt fish are mixed in the rougaille. In Mauritius you can buy fillets of salt fish (fish preserved in salt) a bit like in the picture below (grabbed from google images), usually snook if I'm not mistaken. The bones are removes and the fish is broken into small flakes and eaten on its own, in a rougaille, or fried with onion and chili as in the picture below with rice ect, or even as a seasoning sprinkled over mashed potato. In Norway that have a similar dish to salt fish rougaille called bacalao. If I. However, they soak the salt fish in water for several hours and break the fillet into larger pieces, cooking it within the tomato sauce.

For the next few days I plan to get better! Hehe, and if I am better by Saturday go and watch a surfing competition closer to where the waves break, on a little boat with a few friends. I the meanwhile I'm going to educate myself with acting lessons from the legendary Michael Caine. I've found a few videos on youtube, and have heard that he has written an amazing books bout acting techniques, so I'll see as I go, and let you know :o)