In the world Kitchen! Taste of Tanzania!

We experienced many different tastes and flavours whilst traveling in Tanzania. Some quite bland  and some very tasty. This one was a winner for sure.

Prawns in coconut sauce.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Prawns 
• 1 sliced Onion
• 1 tsp Garlic
• 1 tsp Ginger
• ½ tsp Black pepper
• ½ tsp Turmeric
• 1 tsp Tomato paste 
• 1 cup  chopped Tomatoes
• 1 tbsp Coriander
•  1  sliced capscium
• 1 cup coconut cream 
• Salt & pepper
• 2 tbsp canola oil

Method

1. Marinate prawns with salt and black pepper then put in a fridge for 1 hour.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add onions and fry at medium heat until translucent or light brown. Add garlic and ginger, continue to cook until garlic turns brown
3. Add black pepper and turmeric, stir for half a minute; then add tomatoes paste stir for one minute
4. Add capscium and cook for a bout a minute, then add tomatoes. Increase the heat to medium high and cook the tomatoes until dissolved.
5. Then add coconut cream. Stir until cream boils.
6. Add prawns, salt and cilantro, cover the pot and allow to cook on low heat for 5 minute and the prawns will be ready to eat. 
7. Serve hot

Serve with rice and your favourite vegetables.

Kufurahia!

Grog blog! Drinking Around the World - Africa.

Spiderbait certainly nailed it to a tee when they sang in Old Man Sam, "We're all here drinking beer, drinking beer with out a care!"  That certainly is one of the beauties of travel, no matter where you are or who you are with, there exists a universal language in alcoholic that breaks down culture barriers. In Tanzania; everyone asks you two things 1. Did you make it to the Rooftop of Africa and 2. did you see the Big 5.  For us it was Yes to the roof top and No for the big 5. (missed out on the Rhino).  However, it depends on the interpretation of the question.  If it's the big 5 beers of Africa then you bet ya we did!  To quote Edmund Hillary "It  is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" and also the Safari Lager, Serengeti Premium Lager, Mt Kilimanjaro Premium Lager, Tusker Lager and Castle Lager.  

Having made it to the summit and descended back to normality, the Kili shuffle takes control of your movements and you have to walk so incredibly slow. (Imagine an arthritic 90-year old walking backwards - that's probably too fast). So as we shuffled to the bar and grab one of the big 5 then began to yak to our fellow travel mates, we soon discovered the difference one letter of the alphabet can make in a conversation. Especially after some well earned lubrication for us novice Swahili speakers. As the night wore on and the beers flowed not only did the words begin to slur but their meaning changed altogether. They went from nice to nasty.  For instance, Jumbo (hello) went to Jumba (smelly fart), kunywa (to drink) went to kunya (to defecate), the biting mosquitoes (mbu) went to the biting mboo (penis), ordering kumi (ten) beers (bia) for our porters turned into ordering kuma bia (vagina beer) and complementing our waitress, by calling her a malaika (angel) went to malaya (prostitute).  The most devastating news was finding out that "Kimba" as in the children's show Kimba, the White Lion, translated to in big shit.

Time to down another Tusker Beer!