Improvised Tuna Pizza Recipe

Improvised Tuna Pizza Recipe

We try to make Tuna Pizza with improvised ingredients. … You can however do a better job, than that in the picture of spreading the tomato sauce & other toppings over the pizza bottom. 😉

Watersoaked Cassava Salad

Watersoaked Cassava Salad

This salad is inspired by something that was not even perceived as a salad, that used to be made by some students of King’s college, Budo (Uganda). It basically consisted of steamed cassava mixed with sardines or mackerels, the ingredients most readily available, then. In this case, we shall “raise standards” a bit by including some other ingredients.

King’s College Budo Rice Recipe

King’s College Budo Rice Recipe

This recipe shows how to prepare rice “KCB-style”, with canned fish. King’s College, Budo, is a cool, mixed, boarding secondary school, near Kampala. Students, at least a while ago, used to find ways of making use of the canned fish they got after working on the school farm. The fish & other food items were donated by the World Food program (WFP). This is one of the ways the fish was used.

Making Kabalagala pancakes using gonja (plantains)

Making Kabalagala pancakes using gonja (plantains)

True Ugandan kabalagala banana pancakes are made using “ndizzi” bananas (as they are called in some regions of Uganda), but what do you do if you are in a place where you have none, but lots of “plantains”, known in Uganda as “gonja”? I tried it and in my opinion, they taste more like the “real thing” than with other banana types found in some places. The recipe & especially video, though illustrate how to make Kabalagala with or without ndizzi.

Cassava au Gratin

Cassava au Gratin

So after techrina (in some connected forum) requested for this recipe, it was decided something had to be done. I know someone who cooks this now and then & so I combined what I saw her do with what I know about preparing potato au gratin to come up with this. Cassava is widely eaten in Africa, being prepared in different ways and so I thought doing it a little differently would not be bad at all. Gratin is otherwise not an African dish.

Chicken in groundnut/peanut sauce

Chicken in groundnut/peanut sauce

Groundnuts are what is known in some places as “peanuts”. Here is a simple recipe showing how you could prepare chicken in groundnut/peanut sauce.