Thursday, March 01, 2007
All I need is Food, doo doodoo di doo
I sometimes wish that I could control those things that are out of my control. The example that immediately jumps to mind is the food supply in rural Tanzania...or urban Tanzania for that matter. I know that our home is set up, I know that Abby will be home schooled for the most part, I know that Nik's research environment is waiting for her and I know that I am welcome by the IT folks in Haydom. What I don't really know is what we will be eating on a daily basis. Our friend Shannon has sent some links that contain pictures of the supermarkets and there seems to be some semi-familiar foods in the pictures, which is awesome. However, those supermarkets are in Arusha, a one-hour(ish) plane ride from Haydom.The plane ride is not too big a deal; we have planned quarterly visits to Arusha to stock up on food, etc. But even at that what does 3 months of food look like? How much frozen meat (oh, right there is no meat for 2-4 months due to an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever...more on that next time) can we fit on the little Cessna? What will we use to flavour our food? Well that one I think I have covered. I just went over to Safeway to pick up some food and decided to hit the spice aisle.
There are
so many different spices in my spice rack (really a cupboard that overflows with Herbs and spices) let alone the Safeway spice aisle. I looked over the selection for quite a while and came away with Garlic Powder, Ground Oregano and Whole Rosemary. I figure Garlic Powder and Ground Oregano will supplement that available salt and peeper for things like tomato sauces. Garlic Powder and Rosemary will do to add flavour to most red meat dishes as well as roasted chicken. So I picked up one little jar of each of those. Beyond that we will have to find some nice Savannah grasses to dry, chop and add to meals once we run out of these three essential spices.Perhaps there is a spice of the month club, or even herb of the month that would send us the latest greatest flavour adder...
