Our cook, Aidah, is so good to us. Here is some of the food we've acquired thus far.. she makes a good amount of Muzungu (white people) food, but most of my favorites are Rwandan.
My personal favorite Rwandan food is called Matoke. It's a plantain that tastes just like really good potatoes. Usually made with g-nut sauce (the purple stuff), sweet potato, and avacado (their avacados are about twice or three times the size of avacados in the US) Here the matoke is served mashed instead of in banana form.
The mangos here are fresh, juicy and everywhere.
We have fresh pineapple or fresh mango at almost every meal.
fruit salad
Every Sunday night a few students volunteer to cook. The first Sunday, Ali, Sam and I cooked this stir fry with egg, pineapple, green pepper, cucumber, carrot etc.
Chapati is Rwandans most famous and widely eaten food besides Matoke. It is a hand-made doughy bread eaten mainly with cabbage and beans.
Aidah and I
This Matoke and sweet potato is cooked
differently than in the first photo.
Rwandans don't like Ethiopian food;
so the restaurant we got this plate
so the restaurant we got this plate
at was packed with White people
Aidah and I
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