Food Discoveries

12/19/06

Food discoveries

I meant to turn this into a weekly, but I forgot to. Here is, however, some the food wisdom I have gained over the past month.

- Matoke (vegetable bananas) is one of the best travelers foods. Full of fiber and potassium, it counteracts some of terrible agents working against your peace of mind through your stomach.

- Mashed potatoes pancakes. A great way to do a lot of cooking at one time and very little work afterwards is to take all your potatoes, boil them and make mashed potatoes. Then, the next few weeks just fry it in butter in a frying pan. Makes a great addition to every meal.

- Sauteed mango. Missing home? Cooked mango taste just like cooked peaches. Great over ice cream, great in chapattis (the African crepe), great in a cobbler.

- Honey on scrambled eggs. I just had the best honey ever. It is produced by African killer bees, collected by a nomadic tribe called the wataturu and manufactured, produced and marketed by sukuma under the direction of a Mary knoll missionary priest who has been here since the sixties. Honey on eggs is an amazing combo. Honey is also very good for the health.

- Chips mayai. (egg/fries scramble). As the name implies, this greasy dish is an amazing combo of French fries and eggs.

- Fried Cassava and ketchup. Watch out though, if cassava isn’t prepared right it can cause cyanide poisoning.

- Chapati Elephant ears. Just warm up some chaps on the stove, throw on some butter, sugar and cinnamon and you have a county fair wonder right in your kitchen. NB Chapatis also go great with peanut butter and jelly.

That’s all for now. Feel free to share your own food wisdom!