Bathrooms for the NUFED School
Last week we began the construction project at the NUFED School. The project in its entirety will be quite a bit more extensive, but we are beginning with the student…
Month: March 2009
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Gardening Again
Our new volunteer, Allison Hayes, has been having a wonderful time helping the women to get their square foot gardens back up and running. Aleta Leigh, who has been working…
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Volunteer Teacher at the NUFED School
Aleta Leigh, our first Alaskan volunteer, (shown here with some of her students), has been working as an Ix-canaan volunteer for over a month now teaching English at the NUFED…
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Banoffee Pie
The first thing I wanted to do with these incredibly perfect bananas was to try a new dessert. There must be a zillion dessert recipes that you can make with…
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Banana Season
It seems like just yesterday that we harvested our first racim of bananas from the palm tree in our back yard, and here already is the second. We cut the…
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Chicken & Red Pepper Fettucini
I’ve always loved a good fettucini with white clam sauce, but I’ve never been able to find clams here in Peten, so decided the other day to make a similar…
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Multi-Grain Cereal with Yogurt and Jungle Honey
One of the foods that I have missed a lot since living here in the jungle is a good whole grain cereal to eat for breakfast. Since the closest thing…
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New Kitchen Toys 2
I have wanted one of these Immersion Blenders for ages. It looks so much easier to use than a blender, especially since you can take the blender to the food,…
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New Kitchen Toys 1
I remember that I used to own a crock pot many many years ago when they were in vogue. I can’t remember that I used it very often, probably because…
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Honey of the Doncella Bee
This almost colorless honey is from the Doncella Bees (as the local people call them) … a type of jungle stingless honey bee that produces this light, lemony sweet honey…