Baked goods hits Uganda

I never knew that a mixture of flour and water could be used for so much more than glue but if you fry it in oil you can make numerous different types of Ugandan food. When I brought some of my North American baked goods to some of the Ugandans they thought it was good but they did not know how I made it! So, I decided that I would teach the Ugandans how to bake some food. We decided to make brownies and banana oatmeal chocolate chip muffins, so everyone had a task and took it seriously. For us, baking and baked goods are something we like to have around but the concept is foreign here, for example, real chocolate chip cookies aren’t easily found in many supermarkets. The Ugandans asked me questions like, "Is this mixed enough?" "Are the bananas mashed enough?" "What type of pan do I put this in?" "Can I just put the dough in the pan?" "How do you know when the brownies are done?" I also taught them that the best part of baking is licking out the bowl. While the food was baking, the Ugandans taught me how to make chapattis which are similar to tortillas except they have more oil on and in them. But other than oil is was the right mixture of flour and water kneaded and rolled out into round chapattis which were fried in a frying pan. While we were enjoying eating our food, there was loud thunder and the rain just came down in a torrential downpour. As always, with the rain the power goes out. Since they couldn’t go out in the rain we decided to dance in the candlelight. They taught me how to dance with attitude and make chapattis while I taught them how to bake North American foods.