People can eat anything! Have you seen how the mouth waters if certain people sense an aroma of well cooked food?

We eat to live.

Did I say, we eat to live? Am certainly wrong there as I feel we live to eat. It is a bit confusing!

Food sustains life which simply means we eat to live and because we live, we eat. Now I get it!

Some times back, we had a game whereby the leader mentioned a type of meat we eat. The others forming a circle around the leader will shout "meat" and jump up. Nobody was supposed to jump nor say meat at the mention of a non-edible meat.

It went like this:

Leader: Nyama, Nyama, Nyama!

(Meat, meat, meat)

All: Nyama(meat)

Leader: Cow

All: meat

Leader: Goat

All: Nyama

Leader: Nyoka(snake)

All: (silent and not responding. Any foolish one who happens to say, Nyama, is told to go to the centre)

This game will not apply as we eat snakes, frogs, horses, snails, crocodiles etc. We are maybe left with vultures and maybe the poisonous ones.

 

As I wanted to say, we have food in my area that will leave your mouth watering. It is unlike rice, nor balut, roti or pizza. This one is special.

It is called obusuma or ugali.

Yummy!

You just need half a kilogram of grounded corn or maize flour.

Put 500 mls of water on a stove

Boil till it is bubbling.

Add the flour little at a time as you stir.

Do this till it is a bit hard.

Keep staring and turning till it produces a sweet aroma.

You can dip a spoon in to test if it is ready.

When the spoon comes out without the obusuma sticking on it, know it is ready.

Remove from your cooker and serve with meat, vegetable, chicken or fish stew.

My mouth is watering!

What of yours?