Archive for August, 2009

Things are moving slowly… Cooking is interesting

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

So, we have been cooking on charchoal. It`s different, mainly because you have to light it and it takes about 15 minutes to get hot. Otherwise, we have figured out how to control the temperature by putting ashes on top to smother it if we don`t want it so hot, and of course adding more charcoal to make it hotter. Most of the food here is things like Potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, Matoke bananas, rice, bread, beans and corn. We have been struggling with eating less meat. We eat it about 2 times a week here, and it is such a treat! We have been feeling the starches though and are trying to consume more eggs and beans and such. It`s a lot of work getting used to all the different cooking times and using one cooker for most everything. I miss my 4 burner stove and my oven! Also, not having a refridgerator means we have to buy things like meat right before we eat it, which can be scary here. Buying from the local meat vender means finding one with a fairly good cut of meat hanging up and not to many flies. It`s a good day when they give you a peice without to much bone, fat or sinew, which they like to give you because they charge by the kilo. The other thing is that the smallest portion they sell is half a kilo, which is a lot of meat! (a little over a pound) Oh well. :) It`s usually good. The main meat they sell is beef. Chicken is available if you are willing to do the butchering, (and eat the whole thing!) and it is a little bit more expensive, so we haven`t tried cooking it yet.

As for the company (ministry) we are starting, we are still waiting to meet with the Lawyer on Monday, but hopefully it won`t be to much longer before we have all the paperwork settled for doing anything the Lord may be leading us to do. We are considering doing some traveling here in the next little while. Pray for us to follow the vision God has given us. He is strength!

Love you all, and love to hear from you!

Mary and Anthony in Uganda