Mutton Pepperoni

Most of the time we get to eat awesome Indian food. But a couple nights a week I get to do some American style cooking. We have to do a lot of improvising because many ingredients are not available, or are very expensive. Most Indian kitchens do not have an oven as almost everything they make can be cooked in a wok on a gas range. So "everyday" baking ingredients aren't even sold in stores, like powdered cinnamon and brown sugar. I think I've mentioned before that beef is not very popular here, so they use all kinds of other weird meats like mutton, and buffalo. Just so you know, mutton pepperoni is really weird.  Here's a couple pictures of the pizza I made a few days ago. It turned out really yummy in spite of the weird pepperoni (if I do say so myself :0).

Cafeteria Kitchen

Tim was given a grand tour of the school cafeteria kitchen. Here are a few pictures. They cook mostly rice, with a little chicken and vegetables. This is also where they cooked the independence day feast.

rice steamers

above: The three huge pots on the right are for steaming rice. They pipe in steam from a big boiler.

counter for chopping vegetables

huge pot

pot for making tea

boiler provides steam for cooking rice

coconut splitter

station for washing pots

above: looks like a back-breaking job. there are raised sinks outside where each student is responsible for washing his/her own plate and cup.

Tim posing with the cooks