Food, Glorious Food!

One of the great things about traveling is trying the local food. One of the things we discovered about Ugandan food is that it is somewhat similar to Louisiana food. They eat a lot of rice, usually with some kind of sauce. They have a type of greens that they cook. They eat beans. Again, not identical but similar. Here is a meal we had with the staff of the Babies Home. It is rice with G-Nut (almost the same as peanuts) sauce. Oh and the G-nut sauce had smoked fish in it. The orange on the side is pumpkin. The yellow dish is called matoke--it's made from green bananas. Bananas are eaten everywhere here. In fact there are a couple of banana trees in the backyard of the house in which we are staying. There's also an avocado tree that we have been eating from. Mango, guava, and pineapples are also everywhere. We discovered a coffee shop across from a craft market called 1000 Cups. They roast their own coffee--it's very good. We have been there a couple of times already.

You can get a GOOD grilled cheese with tomato or ham for 10,000 shillings (less that $5). It comes with a cup of coffee and some veggies on the side.

Overall, we haven't had to eat anything really weird. The food that Ugandans eat is heavy on starch and light on meat, but we have found it to be pretty tasty. We actually have eaten a lot of other types of international food while here. There's a Greek restaurant down the hill from us that we've eaten at a few times. We've had Chinese and Indian food as well--not to mention a couple of different versions of pizza.

I'll have to post some pictures another time of chapati and street food called rolex!! We'll continue to keep you posted!