Cooking in Africa!

I always thought I was decent cook…but little did I know that I was only pseudo-cooking until now ☺. Cooking in Africa is much different. I only have 2 gas burners, so I have to figure out how to make everything we want on those! (although I am considering buying a small oven … it kinda looks like a toaster oven… where you can fit one casserole dish in it).

Anyway… I’m learning, slowly but surely.

Here’s a woman at the school who sells fruits and vegetables. She buys them at the market, and then sells them a little higher here on campus. We call her Mama Flora (because she is the mother of Flora).


Here are some things that we have bought over these past few weeks…

A red pepper the size of Asante’s head (for about 40 schillings, or 60 cents):


An avocado almost as big as my head (okay, not really), but it’s big. It cost probably, like 10 schillings… or 16 cents:


And big fresh pineapples cost 30-40 cents here—we love them! We have been buying one a week to snack on during the day.

So far I’ve learned how to make homemade spaghetti sauce (from tomatoes!) and meatballs, chili (which wasn’t hard, but I did have to cook the kidney beans), oogali (which is a white bread that you make from just water and flour on the stove), hummus, and guacamole.

And here are some fun bonus pics of Asante: ☺