A contact at Elliot’s new school offered to help us with our house hunt. As she was networking on our behalf, I heard her say to another missionary, ‘Did you see that beautiful big American style house? The 2 storey? I wonder if that’s available.’ I realised that her idea […]
I sprained my wrist cleaning a cupboard. I’m not normally one to clean cupboards but a layer of mould had permeated our house while we were in Australia. 4 days in to our return to Tanzania, I had a stress injury. And I say stress injury, not just because it’s […]
My favourite lunchbox treat as a little girl was my Mum’s chocolate slice. I’ve re-discovered it here, partly because I miss chocolate, and partly because coconut is so cheap and readily available. Our house mama grates it for me straight out of the shell because Arthur banned me from using […]
Australia has such a rich variety of cuisine and we especially miss the fresh Asian foods, so I undertook to learn how to make my own Chinese noodles. As it turns out, it is super easy and ‘egg noodles’ contain no egg! They get their yellow colour from a chemical […]
The problem with making custard ice cream is that you’re left over with egg whites. I guess you could use them for pavlova, but that requires more cream than we generally get from our cow’s milk, especially after I’ve used a cup of it for the chocolate ice cream! Add […]
Ice cream is available in Dodoma, though flavours fluctuate, but block (or any!) chocolate is difficult to come by. If you do find it, it’s often pretty old and white. Cocoa is available though (it being a cash crop grown in Tanzania) so one day in a fit of chocolate […]
There’s a lady near where we park our car in town who sells grapes and we’ve gotten to know her a bit over the weeks. Purple grapes are a specialty in Dodoma region (no idea where they grow them though – I haven’t seen a vineyard!). I always buy a […]
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