Creative Cooking

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Here is an interesting meal that I thought I would share with you guys. I visited my good friend Eleanor one Sunday afternoon. Before I leave my house, I always try to eat something. Then… if I am offered some food, I can politely turn it down because I’ve already eaten. Well, since Africans are so hospitable, sometimes that excuse doesn’t work. On this particular Sunday, my friend insisted that I try some of her spaghetti. After a quick prayer, I accepted the offer.

The exciting part was watching her create this spaghetti. The students have very little in their dorm rooms, so there’s no room for a kitchen or anything to cook with. So she has created her own specialty of Flask Spaghetti. She starts by boiling some water. Then she puts some spaghetti noodles in a thermos, which she calls her flask. She pours in the hot water and closes the lid to let the noodles cook. I insisted that she let me take pictures to share her creative cooking!

We continued to visit while the noodles were cooking in the little green thermos. Then we headed out to a little café to get some drinks. She also wanted to make the meal extra special by adding some meat to the spaghetti. It’s not the kind of ground beef you would expect to see on spaghetti, but rather it was large chunks of meat. Interesting flavor to add to spaghetti, but as the guest, what can you do?

We returned to the room to find some nicely cooked noodles. After pouring out the noodles, she added a little salt and butter. Then she added the meat and squeezed a little tomato sauce (more like really thin ketchup) on the creation.

Then it was time for my first bite of flask spaghetti! Let’s just say it wasn’t like any spaghetti I’ve ever tasted before, but it actually wasn’t too bad.

I told her that I would have her over to my house and we could make pancakes. I think that cooking experience will be something a little more familiar.