If you want to make taco soup in Africa...










All the ingredients, minus the meat and a bell pepper that you find in the fridge.



First you must find all the ingredients.  There is no cumin in the kitchen at Amani, so you ask if they sell it here in the supermarket.  No one seems to know...So you set out with a friend to find some.  Fortunately, all the supermarkets around here seem to be run by Indian guys, so they have lots of good seasonings.  The only kind of canned beans they have here, though, are baked beans...so you decide the soup can do without beans.  You locate a can of corn, and look for some sort of substitute for retell, but all you can find is canned whole tomatoes, so they will have to do.  But there is a plus, you find a nice frozen package of ground beef.  You need onions, but they don't have those in the supermarket, just the regular market.  So you walk outside and flag down a boda.  Your friend tries yelling over the street noise to the boda drivers that you want to go to Amani, but you need to stop first at the market.  After the boda driver nods his understanding, you hop on and off you go...straight to Amani.  You try explaining to the boda man that you need to go to the market first.  At this point, you realize that your very nice boda man understands little, if any, English.  After convincing him to turn around and go towards the market, your friend passes on her boda and yells "I got the onions!"  So you tell your rather confused boda driver that he can go back to Amani now.   Once you finally arrive back at Amani, you are ready to assemble your ingredients and start cooking! 


 







You don't have any corn bread or tortilla chips, but mama Josephine made some Chapatti earlier.











 

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Chopping the pepper and onions

I'm sorry for the rather random order of these pictures, I was having trouble getting it to post right....Anyway, stay tuned, I want to try and make my own chapatti soon!