Thanksgiving and the BBQ
Thanksgiving arrived and we wondered what to cook without an oven. For John the answer was simple – we build a BBQ – and we did! With a pile of bricks that happened to be stacked in the corner of our back yard and some wire mesh we secured from the market we were away.
John built a BBQ
The usual market shop for food for dinner brought with it the usual fun. John is a kid magnet here, they love him and his sunglasses and we always have a lot of fun.
Kids at the market
For dinner we cooked mashed potatoes (both standard and sweet), green beans with onion, and a great gravy. On the BBQ John cooked a chicken (no turkey for us this year – they import them especially for the US ex-pats and charge about $100 per turkey), carrots with rosemary and pineapple – yum.
It worked a treat!
We had Lauri and the boys, who were staying with us, Eddy and Nadya, Dan and Kate and for many it was their first thanksgiving.
Rach's first attempt at cooking Thanksgiving
Kate made dessert – a chocolate delight and a really nice treat because we don’t usually have dessert here. A fun evening and a delicious meal!
The gang after dessert
John is proving to be far handier than he thought and being here in Rwanda is teaching us many skills we may otherwise not have learned.