Eating Rwanda Style

Many of you have been asking about the food I am eating here in Rwanda. Let me tell you it is so healthy. The kids all pitch in to peel the many potatoes. Cassava is also cooked like a boiled potato or as a sticky dough which is bland. I usually pass on it.

We have maize bread which is not really bread but like dough with a corn flavor. I like it. Then there are white sweet potatoes and what they call Irish potatoes that are mashed. And believe it or not we have spaghetti noodles. Two of those listed above are served at lunch and dinner.

It is then topped with a bean stew with lots of veggies from their gardens, squash, onions, cabbage, tomatoes and greens. A special treat are avocados, cooked bananas, pineapple and cabbage salad.

No complaints at all. Tomorrow is another treat, chicken soup with rice. The chicken will be quite fresh as they are raised at Urukundo.

The kitchen is very primitive. Can you imagine cooking for 44 kids, visitors as well as the staff over a fire? Monic (Monique) is the head cook and she is amazing. Bedde makes sure the beans are just beans. Then they cook for several hours. The finished product is so delicious.

After it's ready the little ones begin their dinner with a prayer many times eating outside. The rest of us eat together after amazing singing of grace. We do have much to be thankful for.