Tanzanian cooking

The last two days have been spent learning about, buying and then cooking Tanzanian food. We were given the recipe then the task of buying food and finding out prices. It was good fun with many laughs and confusions. However we completed the task arriving back with our spinach and potatoes. Others had different ingredients to get and we all compared prices later. Some hilarious stories of experiences in the market and also a few found they had overpaid, but generally folk were honest and friendly to us. Next day we joined together in peeling, chopping and cleaning the food. Juma (our Islamic teacher, hence he was the one who had to slaughter the animals) expertly dispatched 5 chickens and a Filipina volunteer Joy was great at gutting and cleaning them. Mama J. bustled around organising us. We tended the fire, kept things warm with charcoal and fried the chickens.The coconut rice was delicious, the mixed vegetable/spinach lovely and though the sauce of the kuku was great, I think I got the one that escaped and was chased around the grounds before reaching the pot. We had plenty to eat and much good humour. (Photos show Annie grating coconut, Sarah winnowing, Peter, Sandra, Kevin and Stephan preparing spinach, Rupert and Chris peeling.)
We walked back to the centre where we are staying past a brickworks: all bricks cut by hand from the earth then stacked in high piles (hollow) then covered with mud, awaiting fires to be lit inside to slowly burm and fire them.