Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays that you can
actually truly celebrate here just like you would at home. Generally all there is to it is a large meal
with specific components that can (not always so easily) be made here. This year I decided to celebrate Thanksgiving
in Nebbi with a small group of friends.
My friend, Mike, lives right in Nebbi Town and he has a pretty big house
on a very nice compound. Last year I
went to Gulu for Thanksgiving and there were at least 40 volunteers there. And despite the fact that I really enjoyed
last year’s Thanksgiving, it’s nice to be able to celebrate this year with a
much smaller group. I think in total
there were 9 volunteers here and a few of Mike’s Ugandan friends also joined us
for Thanksgiving.
So you may be wondering how exactly we can make something
like a turkey without an oven. The
answer: Dutch oven. This is where you
take two very large pots, putting one right-side up and one up-side down on top
of a sigiri, or charcoal stove. And then
you can put something that is in another pot in between the two large pots and
this creates a type of oven for it. So
this is how we cooked our turkey. We
also had several other traditional Thanksgiving dishes and even some that weren’t
so traditional. We had mashed potatoes,
stuffing (Stovetop instant stuffing!), gravy, vegetables (green beans and
carrots), pumpkin soup, pasta salad, pita bread and the Ugandans brought Karo
(which is millet bread, a traditional Ugandan food). And then for desert I made pies and someone
else made pumpkin bread. I made a
pineapple pie and an apple pie. Both
came out really good, so I was very pleased and I also got some rave reviews. These were another thing we had to cook in
the Dutch oven.
Pineapple Pie
Apple Pie
All in all, it was a great Thanksgiving but I’ll be glad to
be home for Thanksgiving next year!
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