We had been making so much fun about the German octopus guessing that Spain would win the semi-final... it is incredible, apparently he is on 100% right guessing... bookies' dream!
I am so excited that Spain will be going to the final. Surprisingly I was by far less nervous that I had imagined watching the game last night. I thought that Germany would be even more dangerous, and although you could feel the intensity of the game, I felt that Spain was calm and collected, and that they were in control. So I was not scared, we were playing very well, it was a matter of scoring to make sure that the game was not going in the wrong direction.
So now on to the next step, the final. I will be hosting a small Spanish party to celebrate the landing of Spain in the World Cup final, with some tapas and sangria. It is interesting how nobody knows about the concept of tapas around here, or not much about Spanish cuisine for that matter! So I am sure it will all sound very exotic to them.
We are also hosting my husband's boos and wife, and another colleague of my husband and wife for dinner tomorrow. They also don't know much about Spanish cuisine, so I hope they like it! Entertaining in Kampala is a whole challenge, not only because of putting everything together for the actual dinner, but also because as I have mentioned before in my blogs, it does take a while to get all the ingredients together, and one always needs to have some options, just in case any of the ingredients is out of stock!
The very first time I entertained at home, I remember asking my guests if there was anything that they would not eat/are allergic to, just to take it into account. One of the Ugandans responded that they eat everything except monkey's brains. Wow, I was shocked... is there anybody who eats that?! Of course, the response is yes, although I think it is one of those traditional but nowadays illegal things around here and some countries in West Africa. I was a bit shaken at imagining myself preparing some monkey's brain... I wouldn't even know where to get it in the first place. And it was not a joke, my guest was very serious in case you are wondering.
Anyway, so I managed to sail through that... I prepared pannacotta for dessert that day... and I had to change the recipe completely because the texture of the cream here is just different... the normal cream is extremely liquid, and the double cream is as thick as a stone almost... the gelatine was also interesting... And later on when baking cakes, the main problem is that the flour here is not very strong and it just doesn't raise... It is all new for me in this field, but after some trial and error I have managed to produce (I hope) good quality food.
Anyway, it will all be easy on Sunday as I prepare some crowd pleasers like Spanish omelette, every African I have cooked Spanish omelette for just loved it, and they all find it funny that my version of Spanish omelette (egg, potato and onion) is not similar at all to what you get around here in restaurants, which tends to include most times egg, tomato, peppers, onion... but no trace of potato.
It all boils down to the fact that we are not many Spanish in Kampala (or Uganda)! We are around 35 in the whole country, with around 15 of them only in Kampala. I must say this is the first time that I live in a country where Spaniards are under 50 ;)
In any case, wherever we are, I know all Spanish around the world will be together in one place on Sunday: our eyes will be on the World Cup Final in Johannesburg: Spain vs Netherlands! VIVA ESPANYA!!!
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