1.6 Dad's Blog Post no.7
Another thing Jonny hasn't really come clean on is his improving skills in the kitchen. We recently had a fabulous curry, made from steak bought in the village, with potato wedges. Then rice pudding, made slowly on the cooker, not microwaved from a tin! Then soup made from freshly chopped marrow-thing (but as tough as a swede to cut). Then tea made with fresh lemon grass from the market.
On Friday Jonny in no time baked a couple of cakes ('tea loaves') in the solar oven then, after lunch, knocked up a couple of pizzas enough to feed the regular group meeting at the Andersens!
Preparing the meat is, in itself, a time-consuming job. Not ready-chopped chunks prepacked from Tesco but a big slab hacked off a cow by the merchant. It needs cutting up and the fat removing. And the knives aren't too sharp either.
Then there was the marrow-thing: it made a great soup, but took the best part of an hour to cut up.
It would be easy to live off packet meals, bought from Mwanza city on a shopping trip, but how much more inventive to use local produce and learn some great life skills!
Tonight we have BBQ chicken…take a look ('before and after') at the pictures!
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