{"id":961,"date":"2014-06-12T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=961"},"modified":"2014-06-12T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:48:34","slug":"rwandan-soul-food-by-kiyoko-oi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20140612_961.html","title":{"rendered":"“Rwandan Soul Food” by Kiyoko Oi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I took part in a Rwandan Home Cooking class on June 8.<\/p>\n

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Instructor: Marie Louise Kambenga
\nPresident of NPO Think About Education in Rwanda\/ Resident of Fukushima<\/p>\n

*Menu*
\n\u30fbRwandan Omelettes
\n\u30fbStewed Cabbage with Tomatoes
\n\u30fbStewed Beans and Carrots\u00a0in Tomato\u00a0Puree
\n\u30fbFried Potatoes (Pre-boiled)
\n\u30fbUgali<\/span> (paste made from corn flour and water)
\n\u30fbSalt Covered Roasted\u00a0Peanuts
\n\u30fbAfrican Ginger Tea (with milk)<\/h4>\n

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These mild dishes\u00a0were mainly flavored\u00a0with salt and tomatoes and they were all meat-free. Though simple, the\u00a0flavor of the vegetables came out so nicely in the dishes that they make you eat a lot of vegetables for sure!\u00a0If you like, you can also add a hot spice called akabanga <\/span>to the dishes. I’m not so good with spicy foods, so when I tried it, at first it felt like a hot attack on my tastebuds. But then the heat faded away and the akabanga\u00a0<\/span>brought out even more flavor from the vegetables. If you try this spice, you could become hooked on it! We got to use maize, raw peanuts, akabanga<\/span> and tea all brought here from Uganda.<\/p>\n

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When I think of Africa, I imagine the desert, but Marie said they have a lot of vegetables in Rwanda! The vegetables we used today are popular around Japan, so I am planning to cook these dishes for lunch at Kodo Village. Corn flour is not easy to get, but I think rice flour can be used as a substitute for it.<\/p>\n

On June 7, Marie gave a lecture on “Important Things: Life, Peace & Education – A Look at Children as the Future” and the following day she held this cooking class as an exchange event. Thank you, Marie!<\/p>\n

I will make use of this experience when I plan meals at Kodo Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took part in a Rwandan Home Cooking class on June 8. Instructor: Marie Louise Kambenga President of NPO Think About Education in Rwanda\/ Resident of Fukushima *Menu* \u30fbRwandan Omelettes \u30fbStewed Cabbage with Tomatoes \u30fbStewed Beans and Carrots\u00a0in Tomato\u00a0Puree \u30fbFried Potatoes (Pre-boiled) \u30fbUgali (paste made from corn flour and water) \u30fbSalt Covered Roasted\u00a0Peanuts \u30fbAfrican Ginger Tea (with milk) These mild dishes\u00a0were mainly flavored\u00a0with salt and tomatoes and they were all meat-free. Though simple, the\u00a0flavor of the vegetables came out so nicely in the dishes that they make you eat a lot of vegetables for sure!\u00a0If you like, you can also add a hot spice called akabanga to the dishes. I’m … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}