In the Kitchen!

(Pictures:- my water filter that stops me getting any nasties! The gas bottle that provides the cooker. My attempt at making home made butter !)

I have made butter! I'm pleased with it - it doesn't taste like shop bought butter. I used the cream from the milk I buy to make, and it reminds me of butter we used to eat when I was a child.

I've also started baking banana cakes - I've realised that people here don't generally have ovens so they don't bake. So I've discovered I can take a cake with me when I visit or when people visit I can give them a piece, which they enjoy.

I have been a bit reluctant in the kitchen mostly because of my encounters.... when I delve into the cupboard I often discover a few cockroaches (and I can not bring myself to kill them because of the crunch sound they make ....) Once when I had visitors, I decided to make a pot of tea. I lifted the lid off the tea pot and promptly dropped the pot - brown beasts scuttled away! Then I gained courage to continue, as I rinsed out the pot two cockroaches came swimming out of the spout.... I gave up on the tea pot and made tea in mugs instead!

We have also had a rat on 2 occasions - eventually they have both been poisoned but not before we've heard rattling in the cupboards and seen a tail disappearing over the side of the cooker. I always shut the door in a hurry and waited a few minutes before venturing into the kitchen again!