Title: Wojape
Categories: Amerind Fruit Dessert Pudding
Yield: 1 Servings

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a berry pudding to eat with fry bread. From Stacy Winter, a Crow Creek Lakota woman, who says to dip fry bread into it. We usually serve it over the fry bread, but then people pick it up and scoop around in the wojape. She calls it modern because of using any kind of frozen berries; we often use commodities gallon cans. This recipe makes enough for about 20-30 people who have 1-2 fry breads with it. It resides on the Indian Health Service server.

Wild Strawberries in chocolate fondue

Well, you take about a pound of expensive bittersweet chocolate, shave it and melt it in a little coffee with a tablespoon of butter stirred in. Keep it warm in a foudue pot over a little burner for the pot. And about a quart of delicious little red-all-through wild strawberries, chilled. And one fondue fork per person. Swirl a berry in the chocolate. Other bland, crisp fruits can stretch the berries if you don't have enough:

Apple slices (Green Granny Smith), Pear slices. Sprinkle these slices with lemon juice so they won't turn brown. Small cubes (1 inch or less) of French bread (especially crust) is also good. Then -- frog out on it!

A little cultural explanation, here, of that picture. Midegrave; teachings about death is that the spirit will, on its road toward the Milky Way, encounter the temptation of a giant wild strawberry. If you are too greedy there (like you were in life), your spirit will turn into a frog, right there, eating more from the base of the berry and croaking futile warnings at other spirits coming along there. I always figured I wouldn't be too greedy, except that wild strawberries are so much better than those big white tasteless things from the store. Still, I could maybe pig-out or frog-out on just a F ~ E - W bites, then move on. But, if they got a pot of melted bitter-sweet chocolate, and a fondue fork to swirl that incomparably delicious red berry meat with right by that giant strawberry there, I think they got me. Still, I figure chocolate fondue strawberries is not traditional, so probably they won't have any, I'm safe.

Paula Giese

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