Homeland Affairs

We know we've been promising videos of the house, but our cameras and bandwidth just aren't up to it. Instead, we're producing some poorly stitched panoramics of each room. Here are the first three, with apologies for the "Picasso Effect".

Foyer

Kitchen

Living room

We're going more and more native on a daily basis. Behold Russell, our new electric kettle. Much more efficient than the stove (=less blinking of that red light on the meter). This puppy can boil 8cups of water in 90 seconds flat. Kelsey is in love. Saffers will boil water in this, then add it to a pot on the stove where they use it to cook pasta. Thanks for the tip, Cornel!

Until Kelsey gets a job, we'll just have to settle for the hired help we can afford...

Here are our costumes from the department Christmas/grad student going away party. The theme was "South Africa". Kelsey was the box of buttermilk rusks on the right, I was a box of custard.

Cooking:

We've been playing around with local chow. Below is a picture of our Bobotie recipe, basically a curried meatloaf with eggs on top.

And these are Marina's rusks, our favorite local brand of dryyyyyyyyyy cookie. They go with everything, and never get moldy.

Unlike the USA, Mexicans are hard to find here. There's a local company called "Banditos," which brands itself as being "South of Mexico." In our opinion it's somewhere south of "bunk". Instead, we've been making our own tortillas and refried beans, thanks to recipes from our favorite Mexican, Tyler Faith.

(Those are refrieds, not dogfrieds)


Kelsey has also discovered Litchis, a small fruit that satiates her love of berries.

Here's how to eat them:

And finally, what would life be without daal?