Cooking lesson

Sue and I thought it would be good to learn to cook one of the very Rwandan meals we eat on a regular basis at lunch time when we eat with the staff. Our teacher was a gorgeous young teacher that Mal and I met and loved last time we were here. We had our lesson in the home she now shares with a young American lady who teaches English to the school teachers at Kigali Christian School (the YFC school)

It's a Banana and Potato stew

Our raw ingredients were 

green bananas - not sweet at all and quite like potatoes

Irish potatoes - as opposed to sweet potatoes which are even more commonly eaten here

ground nuts flour - like our peanuts

dodo - a green vegetable a little like silver beet but grows quite differently

carrot

tomato

 

 We peeled and washed everything first under Christine's watchful eye

Then added it all in bit by bit to the saucepan

 

 Carefully adding the groud nut flour towards the end so that it didn't go lumpy

Our teacher thought we did a very good job. So did we! It sure tasted yummy!

After we'd cooked it we enjoyed eating it with our teacher and hostess.