Food Selection

Hi All,

I realized we have not yet discussed our food selection here in Tanzania. We have a cook that comes to the house Monday-Saturday. He cooks breakfast & dinner & packs us a lunch each day. There is the same schedule of food every week. So Tuesday's, tonight, is Makande, which is beans & ugali (maise) balls. It is quite delicious but I am sure I will get tired of it soon. Other items on the menu include: Ugali, some sort of chicken in "orange sauce", vegetables in "orange sauce", & sometimes he throws in some random items. It is all delicious though.

We have also gone out for food quite a few times. When you have traditional Tanzanian food everyday it is nice to go out for Indian or just Pizza. One of my favourite things I have come across is call Chips Mayai. It is the most delicious thing ever & the first time I tried it was after a night out. We literally just told our taxi driver to take us to chips mayai & he finds a random street vendor for us. It is Tanzania's version of street meat. Though they usually have delicious beef skewers also. So, you are probably wondering what this chips mayai entails so here goes: it is french fries which go in a frying pan and then they pour egg over top. And that is it. It is a french fry omelet. Don't hate it until you try it.

On the weekend I also had something called a hairy sausage...not really sure what makes it hairy so mixture of spices & being deep fried but again delicious. Nothing here is remotely good for you, except the corn that the women cook & sell on street corners. I have it about every other day! That is about it for food.

Fenz & I booked flights to Zanzibar today so we are very excited about that. There is a group of 6 of us going so it should be a lot of fun.

Surgery day was cool. I was glad to see it was pretty legit, unlike some of the other things that go on at the hospital. I saw a C-section, a hysterectomy with suprise appendectomy & a guy with a badly broken tibia & fibula that was reset & casted. So, it was pretty fun, there is another C-section scheduled for Thursday so hopefully it will be while I am at the hospital.

I think that is all for now. Hope it starts to warm up there & stops raining.
xo, Leah