Gabs culinary adventures

My favorite traditional food in Botswana is dumbling. It's unclear to me what the name actually implies, since they are undoubtedly dumplings. They are giant doughy bread balls that soak up plates full of sauce. Another great part about dumbling is that once you make the dough, you can steam it to make dumbling, or cook it flat and dry in a skillet to make phaphata (giant English muffins), or roll it and balls and deep fry it to make fat cakes. When I told my favorite waiter in the hospital cafeteria that I love the dumbling, he wrote out this recipe for me.
Here's the result from my first dumbling party! Great success!

Here are a few other favorites:

1) Chili bites. I bought these at the grocery when seeing the mixture in a box only cost about 20 cents. How could I pass that up? They basically tasted like falafel.
2) Carrot Cake Pancakes. Sarah's creation. The best part was the cream cheese "topping". Breakfast of champions.
3) Lime Slushies. We discovered about a month ago that our lemon tree in the front yard was actually a lime tree. No wonder the lemons were never getting ripe. We had been blaming Ryan Wells for picking all the fruit before it got ripe, but turns out he just realized they were limes before we did.

4) Digesting. Matt and Tessa's house. Not too shabby.

Addicted

5 hrs 51 minutes! I felt unstoppable. Literally felt like I could do anything for a little under 6 hrs. Unfortunately, the most beautiful marathon in the world was engulfed in a heavy downpour for about 5 hrs, so I didn't see much other than splashing water and my IPOD dying from water damage, but it was so worth it. Amazing feeling of accomplishment!! Thanks to everyone who has encouraged me!

ULTRAMARATHON

Off to Cape Town tomorrow to run 56km along South Africa's beautiful southern coastline!

Of course, what would a trip this year be without disaster. The lesson I've learned this time is to never trust an airline called Velvet Air. They liquidated a few weeks ago and kept promising they'd resume flights soon, but a couple days ago, Sarah and I finally decided it was time to bite the bullet and buy new tickets. British Airways it is! Thank goodness for the Brits! The worst part is that we have to spend 30 hrs in Johannesburg, so Sarah and I will be preparing for our race on bunkbeds tomorrow in a hostel next to the airport.

Cape Town plans include carb loading at a local Italian restaurant, touring the Cape of Good Hope if my legs have any energy after the race, a fancy dinner at La Colombe (one of the world's top restaurants!), and cage diving with sharks!!

Wish me luck!!!!!!