School is Out for Summer!!!!

     The school year has ended.  Teacher ran screaming from the building yesterday with tears of joy covering the sidewalks like the morning dew.  As I write this we are a little over 48 hours from departure on Saturday afternoon.  Anxious?  Nah!!!  Excited? You betcha!!!  I know volunteer season is a mixed blessing at New Day Orphanage.  Although they enjoy the volunteers and what they contribute, after the third or fourth group passes through Mapanza, they have to become weary of being host.  Our goal is to be more of a blessing than a burden.
     You may be wondering what kind of food they eat in Zambia.  I found some good photos and information on The Baxters website while they were serving with Hands at Work.   So the photos are descriptions are theirs.

Here you have nshima (corn meal paste) made from maize ‘flour’, fried chicken, soup (a sauce made from tomatoes and onions) and finally cabbage.   This meal is eaten using your right hand.  You take a small amount of nshima and use your hand to shape into kind of a ball, then dip it into the cabbage and/or sauce.

This is Rice, spicy mince in a sauce and cabbage/rape mix

This is Kapenta – small fish  – which i’m not so keen on!  Next to it is rape, a kind of leaf that is commonly grown here.  Oil and salt are used a lot in cooking. 

Nearly all meals (if you can afford it) will have nshima and/or rice, a green veg and some kind of meat/fish.  Sometimes people will cook pasta or potatoes in addition to nshima.
One restaurant we went to, the meat choice was pigs trotters, offal and very bizarre cuts of the chicken!
These meals will be eaten at lunch and dinner.  The nshima particularly is very filling – many Zambians will complain they haven’t had a proper meal if it doesn’t include nshima!
     I am intrigued by the Kapenta.  I love anchovies and fish in general (except mackerel which is normally oily and pasty).   Lynne is an awesome cook and I am sure she will be generating some fine meals from the local market.
      Yep!!  Pretty psyched about this adventure

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