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Good eats... Gulu style


I'm not a food blogger... but I really wanted to share what I made for lunch today! One of the many many wonderful things about having Elizabeth here for the summer is that all she eats is produce (only a slight exaggeration!) so that has encouraged me to make new things with fresh produce. Plus, being pregnant and so tired in third trimester has made me a little more interested in making sure that we all get good nutrition. Gracie's a hard one, at times, because of her dietary needs and chewing/swallowing issues. But here was today's raging success!

I made cottage cheese - still tastes like ricotta, so I made it herbed - here's how:

- around 2 liters of milk brought to a boil (or near boil), salted, a little butter in it.
- turn off heat and add vinegar (or any acid) and leave it to sit for 30 minutes.
- drain through piece of cloth in collander and gently press over 30 minutes or so.
- add heavy cream, or in my case, I beat up the skin from the top of the milk after I boiled it with some extra milk and some butter to try to make cream. Still not perfect, but, we're in Gulu!

For herbs, I added: oregano, pepper, garlic, olive oil, and thyme. Anything would work though.

I put some of this herb cottage cheese in the center of a perfectly ripe avocado and Noah and Grace couldn't get enough of it!

The other dish is raw collard greens or sucuma wiki, intended for me, the pregnant mama! I soaked the sucuma wiki overnight in vinegar to clean it. Then I made a marinade:

- chop up one onion and garlic clove
- squeeze one lemon over the onion and set aside
- cut up the sucuma wiki and massage with salt
- add olive oil and a little honey to the marinade
- add sucuma wiki to marinade and mix together.

The kids even ate this salad - although Noah is still chewing on sucuma wiki like a mouth full of green chewing gum and Gracie had trouble with the bigger pieces...
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