Ugandan Food

This week was an eventful week as far as food was concerned. I've been yearning to learn how to make some Ugandan food since I've been here, but there were unfulfilled promises made by one of pastors' daughters for many months. Now I have a few new friends who were able to teach me to make some different foods. I was blessed by the mom of one of the boarding students with bananas for making matooke. The problem...I didn't know how to peel or prepare the matooke. My friends Brian and Thanx helped me to learn to prepare the matooke with meat. Although I'm not proficient in peeling the bananas, I was able to do it. Cooking it was super easy. The problem...after that meal, I still had over half of the bananas left (even after feeding 4 of us for lunch). Next step...g-nut sauce. I was just waiting and waiting for a few days hoping someone would come to help me prepare g-nut sauce. Finally, Teacher Deborah who stays at the school decided she would come and show me to make the g-nut sauce. So tonight another feast of g-nut sauce and matooke. Did I mention that matooke is my favorite thing to eat here in Uganda? So I'm left with learning how to make chapati and then my life as a Ugandan cook will be fulfilled.

On a different note, I may have mentioned what I normally eat when I eat with the kids: posho and beans. So I was talking with Pastor Richard and Brian and they explained to me that years ago no one ate posho. I didn't really understand how it went from no one eating it to now everyone eating it. However, they told me that posho was so cheap that it wasn't considered food for people, but instead it was what they would feed the dogs. So basically every day I eat the equivalent to Purina puppy chow! Pretty exciting stuff. The scary part, I guess, is that I actaully enjoy it many days during the week. I think what really gets me is having the same meal over and over again. So if the Westmont team is reading this...get ready for dog food lunch!