A Trip to Nakivale
The road to Nakivale has gotten particularly bad over the last several weeks. We decided to capture some of it on video while traveling today. Hope you enjoy this little glimpse!
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How to Make Cream Cheese In Two Easy Steps (with a bonus recipe!)
A few weeks ago I saw a video going around on Facebook, in which a woman demonstrated how to make cream cheese. The cheese she was actually making was either ricotta or queso (depending on how stringy it turned out). I don’t know how many times I’ve made ricotta cheese using the exact method she […]
Yesu Amefufuka! — Jesus is Risen!
We celebrated Easter Sunday with Sangano. They’ve been getting a good amount of rain the last few weeks (which is good) but it’s made the road a mess. We crept down the road at about 30-40km/hour (less than 25 mph) and still felt like we were going too fast. We reached one section of the […]
How to Make Yogurt in 5 Easy Steps (with Pictures)
It’s super easy to make homemade yogurt. There’s no better way to get this cultured staple preservative-free than to make it yourself. I started making yogurt before we ever came to Africa. We were able to get milk from a local farm. I’d found directions for making yogurt in a book I read and decided […]
How’s Africa? – Land of Milk
God sent us to the Wisconsin of Uganda. We live in cattle country, dairy-land. There are 3 dairies within walking distance of our house and another two on the other end of town. The biggest dairy resides smack in the middle of town, down an almost impassible dirt road. These dairies provide milk products, primarily […]
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a huge deal in Uganda. I love this season almost as much as Christmas. Normally, we see family after family walking to church carrying palm branches. Today, however, as we drove to church, it was pouring rain. Very few people were out in it (they don’t like to go anywhere in the […]
Sweet and Sour Chicken
I mentioned in my post about our trip to Kampala, how much we love Chinese food. There are three types of food on this earth — Chinese food, Mexican food, and everything else. I started collecting recipes for our favorite Chinese dishes before we ever had plans to move to Africa. I was thankful I […]
How’s Africa? – An Epic Storm
We’ve entered the rainy season again here. You might remember from my post about the rainy season that we can expect a couple big storms during those months. Wednesday last week dawned sunny and warm. It was the first truly sunny day we’d had all week so we took advantage of it. The older boys […]
9 Things You Can’t Do In Uganda
A few days ago James happened across an article that shared a number of things you can’t do in Uganda. The author had followed up a few days later with another list of things he’d missed the first time. It could be the “can’t do” list is regional, because, as James and I talked, we […]
Friday Funny – An Act of Faith or Why Women Live Longer
We pass a Mosque on Masaka Road on the way to Kampala. It’s a fairly new building, built since we arrived in Uganda. But they skimped a little on construction. The result is that 5 times a day, a man has to climb the ladder seen in this picture to deliver the Muslim prayer call. […]