Dirks fabulous adventures in Uganda: BBQ

I had just sent in my proposal for establishing a new charity in Uganda and my fellow workers worked hard recently and supported me very much since Claudia travelled to Switzerland, so I thought it was time I offered a BBQ. I asked Dennis to go and buy some meat, ginger, spices, sticks, capatis and sodas. When he left I started doing some weeding at the farms entrance as it was getting bushier every day. I don’t know why but it took Dennis 5 hours to return; This is Africa. Anyways, we had to prepare quickly now. Alfred prepared a grill, filled it up with charcoal, poured some paraffin over and lit it… I knew immediately that this was not going to work as I had become a semi-professional fire maker since I travelled to Uganda. I knew that the paraffin would just burn and disappear while the charcoal would remain cold. So I waited a minute for the fire to extinguish, then started again and produced nice glowing coal only after 15 minutes.

In the meantime Charles and Dennis prepared some potatoes and the meet. They washed it, cut it, prepared a marinade of garlic, ginger, salt, oil and lemon, rubbed the meat with it and put it on giant sticks. Dennis had brought 4.5 kg of pork so every stick had speered about 600 g of meat… Phew, the sticks I was used to are nothing compared to those! But Dennis is always hungry and he was grinning all the time while preparing the food. Moritz, our dog, couldn’t resist sneaking in the kitchen, trying to snap his share before time so we had to put him on the lead. He didn’t like that at all and demonstrated this by howling heart-rendingly.

As the grill was ready and so the meat on sticks we let it roast. Soon the place was filled with a nice and familiar smell. This seemed to have attracted other people as well as – all of a sudden – our vet John and Norman, some other guy from town showed up. As these guys tried to get closer and closer to the grill, so I started joking and drew a line in the soil and named it the “no Norman beyond this point”-line.

Soon the meat was ready, as well as the potatoes and the capatis, so we could let the fest begin. We enjoyed the meal very much as well as the refreshingly cool soda out of our new fridge, that I christened for this event. So everybody was happy and full. Then all the guys disappeared as most of them wanted to watch the football games of that night. So I cleaned a bit, checked on the animals and prepared myself to going to bed.

while waiting for Dennis to return from shopping, I did some weeding in the entrance
of Eco-Farm for it was getting very bushy