Author: chloemackean

Hi, I'm Chloe and I absolutely love food and cooking. Some of my closest friends have been made through cooking and eating together and very often I find myself breaking the ice with strangers by talking about the food they love. For some years now, whenever I’ve gone on holiday I’ve written down recipes from people I meet along the way. Food is both universal and personal, one of the reasons I love it so much. I also love to travel and am very interested in different cultures and people. For me, talking to the tuk tuk driver on the way to a famous tourist site is more interesting than the site itself. Since January 2018 my husband Cassian and I have been living our dream of exploring parts of the world. I quit my job in London where I was managing an environmental network and flew to Ethiopia. Cass and I are dividing our time up between travelling and volunteering on a range of sustainability projects. So far we've visited Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, and will spend the rest of 2018 exploring East Africa. In 2019, who know where our curiosity will take us?! Follow me on Instagram: peopleimeet_foodtheyeat Or send me an email: chloemackean@gmail.com

Ugandan fried pork with all the trimmings

A rib-sticker of a pork feast best enjoyed with lots of friends and cold beers

Flo’s recipe for Ugandan Matooke Katogo

Florence was responsible for hooking us up with our stay at the Kaluyas. Florence is a formidable woman and has had an extraordinary life of ups and downs, from being a Councillor in the Jinja sub-county, to living in a refugee camp in Sao Paulo. Each morning she would make us the most amazing traditional…

Recipe for Ugandan spiced fish stew with peanut and aubergine sauce

This blog is about how a chance encounter with a banana seller and some bold questioning led to an unforgettable week staying with a family of Ugandan farmers and a fish stew to die for. Read on for the story and recipe. I’m on the hunt for a guesthouse in a small town outside of…

Posho and Beans

At Kibebe Primary School and almost every other primary school in Uganda, ‘posho and beans’ is the lunchtime meal, eaten by everyone, every day of the week, for as long as anyone can remember. Posho is a Ugandan staple, made by ‘mingling’ maize flour with water until it becomes something that resembles a solid lump of…

Genfo with ‘Sili’s Sauce’

Sili making ‘bunna’ (Ethiopian coffee) This bad boy breakfast dish comes from Sili, who is one half of the dream team at Mulu Ecolodge and responsible for making a simple sauce of onions, garlic, niter kibbeh (Ethiopian spiced butter) and berbere taste so good that it has been affectionately renamed ‘Sili sauce’. The breakfast dish…

How to make injera, Mulu Ecolodge style

This blog is about the most famous Ethiopian cuisine – the ‘injera’. Nailing down a recipe for injera has been surprisingly tough, whenever I have asked people about exact quantities or timings, the response has been frustratingly vague, “you just know” or “you have to feel it in your heart”. Ingredients change depending on where…