Having fun in the kitchen

Cooking! Well, preparing to cook. The other week our class took on a different form as we learned how to prepare some typical Tanzanian dishes. This included killing some chickens. I refrained from doing the dirty deed, but proceeded to pluck, gut and cut one up (as can you can see)! Other food included stew (made with cooking bananas rather than potatoes), cocunut rice (ie. rice cooked in coconut milk), coconut beans, chapatis... all delicious. Took us all morning - you can't just open up a can of beans - no, first you have to sort through the dry beans for bad ones, grit and bugs, then wash them, then boil them for a couple of hours. And that was just for one dish!