Here in Uganda, we don't have quite the
same variety of food as what we are used to eating at home. When we
cook for ourselves, we eat a lot of rice, pasta, eggs, and vegetables
like cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and onions. For breakfast, we have
cornflakes and oatmeal. We also eat fruit – mostly bananas, but
we've also had fresh papaya, oranges (which are green here), and
avacado. For snacks, we eat a lot of shortbread cookies.
This was one of our first meals in
Uganda, from a restaurant called Burungi's. It's a chicken broth,
and we mixed in rice and sweet potato (matoke). There is chapat on the left.
This is the menu at Burungi's. “Offals
katogo” is a kind of intestine. “Chapati” is like a flour
tortilla. “Muchomo” is goat meat.
“Milk tea” is a big thing here.
It's tea steeped in milk and it's served hot. You can also put sugar
in it. It's wonderful! This picture shows milk tea along with a
typical lunch of banana, eggs, and bread.
They sell peanut butter here, but it is
expensive. Instead, we buy G-nuts Paste. G-nuts stands for “ground
nuts” - nuts that grow in the ground, aka peanuts. So it's made of
peanuts, but doesn't taste as good as actual peanut butter.
G-Nuts are also made into a purple sauce!
One day, our Ugandan friend Michael
made for us a delicious feast for dinner. This plate has chicken,
rice, and vegetables. He had to actually kill the chicken to make
this meal. I was glad I wasn't at home when that was happening!
Sugar cane is a treat here. People chew
the soft center portion of the sugar cane and then spit it out.
A “rolex” is a flour tortilla
(called chapat) rolled into a kind of burrito with egg, cabbage, and
tomato inside. It's probably my favorite thing we've eaten here so
far.
This is passion fruit juice. I've only
had it once, but would definitely drink it again!
“Chips” here are more like thick
french fries. They are delicious!
That's all for now!
Love,
Miss Jacobs
