Gastronomy

Man, I've been eating well this week, thanks to Richard!

Last weekend, Richard got it into his head to bake some cookies for us! You've gotta love a man who can go from fixing the car and building a house to baking cookies! I made quite a contribution to these cookies, as well - I stuck the cloves into the tops of them.

He made so many cookies, so we've been eating them all week with our afternoon tea. They're so deliciously light and flaky and, get this, BUTTERY! Yup, Richard even brought the butter from the city up North in order to make these delicious treats for us! The last time I had butter was when I was on the plane on the way here - I licked out that little butter pat, I tell you.

And then yesterday, we had a pizza feast! Richard made us some wonderful pizza - we even managed to find some mozzarella cheese at the "supermarket" downtown! Amazing stuff, I tell you. This town has changed so much since we first got here. We imported the salami (from Nairobi with Annamarie) and the pepperoni (from a visitor who came from the US), but the fact that you can buy mozzarella cheese sometimes... wow. Really, things have changed. Obviously, you pay quite the price for it. But it's worth it once in a while, if you're going to make pizza! I meant to take a picture of the beautiful pie when it came out of the oven. But alas, I forgot. So here are the leftovers, of which I ate from for lunch today:

And counting in the amazing pot of lentils I made the other night... it's not a wonder that I'm feeling rather, well, rotund this evening :(