A comforting dish of potatoes and beans that will taste even better when cooked with family.
Category: Africa
Aminatha’s East African Cabbage
A deliciously simple recipe for cabbage, popular all over East Africa.
Ugandan Street Food & Cheap Local Eats
It may not seem like an obvious place for it, but the street food scene in Uganda is live and kicking. Town centres, bus stations and roadsides are full of people selling chapatis, grilled chicken, maize and a glorious bounty of fruit and vegetables – avocadoes bigger than your hand or seven different types of…
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. Iām on the hunt for a guesthouse in a small town outside of…
People I Meet and Food They Eat 