{"id":711,"date":"2011-05-10T01:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.landfood.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/?p=711"},"modified":"2011-05-10T01:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:05:51","slug":"finally-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/2011\/05\/10\/finally-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally started cooking at home again. It&#8217;s such a satisfying feeling.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I went shopping at the local market with the girl, Lucy, who helps clean my house, wash my clothes, and used to bring me food everyday (I sound like I&#8217;m 10 years old now). I bought all kinds of veggies, green bananas (matooke), beans, and corn flour (posho\/ugali).<\/p>\n<p>I also bought two aluminium pots, although I already have 5 different pots and 3 pans at home because Lucy insisted. Lucy didn&#8217;t seem to understand that those ceramic pots wouldn&#8217;t break if we heat them up. I don&#8217;t think she knows that non-stick pans shouldn&#8217;t be scratched either. The non-stick pan at the other house has obviously been scrubbed clean. I don&#8217;t want to think that I ate many meals made from that pan&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We came home and she taught me how to peel and cook matooke (green bananas that are like plantains. I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re plantains or not, but I love them). Then she left because the rain was coming. I happily threw together a pot of stew with tomatoes, eggplants, and onions. Seasoned only with salt, as I had nothing else. It was delicious in a way that only a self home cooked meal could be like.<\/p>\n<p>I cooked again this evening also. I got caught in the rain coming back so I couldn&#8217;t go buy new ingredients. Beans, tomato, and eggplant stew it is. And a side dish of pan grilled eggplant with just the right amount of salt.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t felt more at home since I&#8217;ve arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally started cooking at home again. It&#8217;s such a satisfying feeling. On Sunday, I went shopping at the local market with the girl, Lucy, who helps clean my house, wash my clothes, and used to bring me food everyday (I sound like I&#8217;m 10 years old now). I bought all kinds of veggies, green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6372],"tags":[174116,241],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uganda","tag-cooking","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}