I had an awesome day, ok lets be honest, I've had an awesome past couple of days. Since Im leaving for home soon (only for a visit) I have not been working here. Instead I've been spending my days with my 2 favorite families, and it has been so comforting.
Yesterday I taught mama kosi and her sisters how to bake a cake, I was supposed to teach mama jemeili too, but ran out of time so I baked her one this morning. They loved learning how to bake! We also used food coloring to make the cake a red a blue swirl. They wanted to make it for their guests that they were having today.
So today (this morning actually) I went over to help prepare the food. I showed them that I am the master at rolling out chapati ;)
I felt so great to get to help out and be treated like family instead of a guest. When I visit most people here in Kenya, I have to sit (usually alone) in the sitting room, while they prepare the food or chai for me. But with mama kosi's family and mama jemili's family, they put me in the kitchen and don't act like i'm fragile. Still they are impressed when I know how to prepare some traditional food.
So we cooked all morning chapati, rice, ugali, kuku (which I actually didn't kill) and fried potatoes. It was a feast, and the whole family was there, along with some other visitors.
They never did serve the cake we baked yesterday however. I wonder if they thought there wouldn't be enough for everyone, or...... they wanted to save it for themselves :)
Probably a little of both, the cake did turn out kind of small. Obviously here we bake the cake from scratch and not from a box. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but the cake never seems to rise, it always turns out flat and dense........ Grandma I'm coming for you for tips personally! hahaha
Other than that, I've been also spending alot of time with Kibaibai, I sure will miss him, while I'm gone :(
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