A Taste of Home...

We are blessed to be in the company of many foodies.  Often we'll come home and someone has cooked up a big curry, moussaka, or pasta for everyone.  What a treat, to sit around the table with your friends and enjoy a delicious meal cooked up for you.  I (Gabby) have been thinking for awhile that I wanted to cook a similar meal for my housemates.  At the same time, often on Sunday nights my mouth starts watering at the thought of our traditional Sunday-night visits to my parent's house for a paella.  So, yesterday while shopping in Arusha I looked around for the best ingredients I could and decided to try my hand at cooking a paella for the house.  I think it would have made my dad shudder... basmati rice instead of arborio... chicken bouillon cubes instead of broth... but I did manage to pinch some saffron off of a fellow foodie here.  It was a great evening.  We had red wine, french onion soup appetizer (made by Hana and her friend Matt), and chocolate peanut-butter cake for dessert (also made by Hana).  Everyone seemed to enjoy the paella, and Matt said he was in his "happy food place".  Hopefully I made the Galvez clan proud!  Next time I need to work on presentation quality, but I think it tasted pretty good:)