I remembered visiting West Africa when I was 18 years old and tasting the spicy tingle of peanut soup for the first time.
A traditional Virginian dish is peanut soup which has been present in the cuisine since the colonial era.
If you're planning to serve peanut soup, you have to arrange for the requisite number of soup bowls.
The bland starch went beautifully with a big, fragrant dish of peanut soup, gently peppery and rich with palm oil.
It comes with peanut soup, palm nut soup or okra soup.
Popular fasting dishes include Sabudana khichadi or peanut soup (danyachi amti).
American cuisine (steak, seafood), some Civil War period dishes (game pie, peanut soup, fritters).
Home cooking, including peanut soup, Virginia or country ham and crab cakes, apple pie or bread pudding.
It usually consists of smooth, creamy peanut soup, followed by ugali, which resembles a stiff polenta.
The peanut soup is based on African models but served cold instead of hot, which is the traditional version.