A deliciously simple recipe for cabbage, popular all over East Africa.
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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…
People I Meet and Food They Eat 