Milling the Wheat – Guthiya Ngano
With a bumper harvest like we just delivered to the Cereal Board, it was time for us to taste the fruits of our labor. We had a few…
Chapati Skillet – Rugiyo
We called our chapatis Mikundi. I dont know whether this was just in our household or that was a commonly used name. I couldn’t know because chapatis were…
Making Chapati
I learnt to make Chapatis before I was 10 years old. I had no choice because my older sister was away in college, my younger sister was a…
Sneak Me A Chapo Dear Sister
The day of making chapatis was the best day of all. My brothers were all so nice to me, they could have washed my feet if I asked…
Chapati Stew
There was no rest for the weary, not in my home at least. After making the 30 plus chapatis, I still had to make the stew to go…
How Many Chapatis can You Eat?
On the day of chapatis, everybody finished their outdoor chores quickly and they were ready for dinner at 6.30pm promptly. Everybody got their stew served in a bowl.…
Inferiority Complex: OlKalou
My definition of this is simple: Feeling less than …… We all have a bit of it, or there are some situations we step into and immediately it…
OlKalou Meals
Back home in OlKalou, our meals were a mass production for a minimum of ten people making the taste sometimes disappear in the quantity. Our meals were mainly…
Sharing What They Had
Talking of excessive, nobody had abundance of things, in fact, it seemed like simplicity was the common theme. I always wondered why we only had one axe for…
Chapati
A lot of women make chapatis but not all chapatis are made equal. There are some who make chapatis that are so hard you could use them for…