Peanut butter and Jelly no more!!!!

So I have been nervous about cooking here in Kenya. So nervous, I been surviving off of Peanut butter and jelly and badly cooked rice for 4 weeks. Yesterday, I got up the courage to cook my first meal. Ok so it was eggs but I still had to cook on the gas stove. Once I got started, I enjoyed it more and more. Here are some recipes I have tried out and some I thought you might enjoy trying yourselves.

1. Rainbow sandwich
Bell Pepper
Tomatoes
Onion
Grated Carrot
Eggs
Bread
Mustard
Sauté onions first, then add tomatoes and bell pepper. Add scrambled egg. Add salt and Ms. Dash for taste.
On 2 pieces of bread, add grated carrot, mustard and the omelet. Smooch together and enjoy.

2. No Bake Cookies
2 cups sugar
½ cup milk
½ cup margarine
½ cup coca( I used 3 small Cadbury chocolate bars)
½ cup peanut butter
2 ½ cup oats/biscuits
1 tsp vanilla( Optional, I didn’t end up using it)
Combine sugar, milk, chocolate bar, margarine and bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and immediately add oats/biscuits, peanut butter and vanilla. Mix well. Spread onto a greased enamel plate, let harden and cut into pieces or roll into balls.

3. Elephant soup
1 elephant
30 cubic meters water
Salt and pepper to taste
2 rabbits(optional)
Blue band( butter)
Cut elephant into bite-sized pieces.( Save tusks for another use.) Sauté in blue band in a large sufuria( frying pan), then add water and simmer until done. Add salt and pepper to taste. If unexpected guests arrive, add rabbits- but check with them first, as many people do not like hare in their soup.

4. Samosas( I haven’t tried cooking these but I have been eating them a lot. The heaping club has a somosa day every week where we go out and get somosas. Very good)
Make some chapti dough and set it aside for at least ½ hour while you prepare one of the fillings. Knead dough briefly. Take a lime- sized lump of dough and roll into a circle. Cut each into quarters, roll into a cone, fill with filling, and pinch closed to make a triangle. Use the flour/water paste to seal. Try to seal the tips so that the oil does not get into the somosa. Deep fry or pan fry.

Filling - Vegetable
2 large potatoes, boiled
1/2 cup peas, boiled
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp salt
1 tsp grarm masala or curry powder
1 clove garlic
1/2 inch piece ginger
Some chopped cilantro
Bell pepper to taste
1 Tbsp margarine
Cut potatoes into small cubes. Mix all ingredients and fry until everything is mixed.

Filling - Meat
¼ kilo minced meat( 2.2 pounds is 1 kilo)
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp garam masala or curry powder
1 clove garlic
½ inch piece ginger
Pinch salt
Pinch cloves
Pinch dry mustard
Some chopped cilantro
Bell pepper to taste
1 Tbsp margarine

Fry onions until translucent. Add all other ingredients and fry till meat is done. If using tough meat, boil first.