As a number of you may know I am currently obsessed with kitkat crunchy peanuts so was well chuffed when I came to the internet cafe to discover that the in the making of peanut butter cookies. Not only do they taste quite strongly of peanut butter but have loads of peanut chunks in them. Plus they're only 1000 shillings, which is about 30p! Today I enjoyed another - although this indulgence is perhaps occuring too frequently and will certainly not assist in the weight loss I was expecting when I came over here - which he warmed up so it just melted in my mouth.

I have also been introduced to something called a rolex. This being an omlete wrapped in a chipatti. Now ordinarily this would not be something that would excite me, omletes rarly do, but these are like the Ugandan version of a kebab after a night out and absolutely amazing! The omlete usually consists of peppers and onions and can be purchased off the street made fresh to order. We tried to get one last night after a night out at sombreros, at the particualr insistence of Dylan but were unable to find a stall. Santos, our chef, also makes them and I find that they go particularly will with tomato ketchup, although given that we'd run out yesterday lunch time I tried it with chilli sauce, which also works. Santos has promised to teach me how to cook them before I leave.

But I did have one of the best rolexes the other night at camp site consisting not only of onion and peppers but also tomatos and advocados. The rolexes at camp site are so amzing that there is even a facebook group in honour of them. They also sell chipattis filled with peanut butter and bananna...although I have not tried these yet as don't want to over-indulge!

Other food which I have enjoyed over is not dissimilar to that back home, consisting of pasta or rice with usually either stew or curry or pasta sauce.

At the introduction ceremony last weekend I also got involved with helping cook and prepare the food as I think detailed in my last blog and just loved the fact that all the food there was just cooked and prepared so easily and simply. I think at the ceremony I truly experienced ugandan food and even the way to eat it - that being just with your hands! The staple base of the diet tends to be high carb food - that being rice, noodles or matoki - the latter not being to my taste at all! I enjoyed goat, beef and chicken, all being cooked or boiled in a pot. The chicken however was cooked together with potatoes and tomatoes and onion within bananna leaves and then each little parcel was placed within a big pot made only out of more bananna leaves then just cooked over a fire.

So the short of it is the food here is good and enjoyable and I will definitely be baking peanut butter cookies and rolexes when I return for you all to enjoy!

written by  Laura_Smith on July 2, 2009 from Jinja, Uganda
from the travel blog: Laura's little summer break
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Hey Laura- a whole entry dedicated to snack food and treats. Love it! Am salivating over idea of a peanut butter cookie....glad you're having so much fun, I am incredibly jealous and bitter and wish I was doing exciting things like you instead of sitting on my fat arse at my desk at work. want to see some pictures please! xxxxxxxxx

written by  Helen Emily Taylor on July 13, 2009

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Hi, I've just emailed you but thought I'd just add a bit to your blog. Good to see some pictures at long last. Guess you're now on your way to the next stage of your adventure - the safari! Have fun, though sounds as though you may miss the 'resort' and the vino!! Just been sorting through old photo's at home - could put a couple of you depicting the earlier adventures of your life if you thought that a good idea! Have fun lotsa luv. xXx

written by  SPUD on July 19, 2009

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