Cameroon: Peanut Soup

The Dish: Tomato-y peanut butter soup
The Country: The official languages are French and English.

cup of peanut butter

Ingredients:
3 cups chicken broth
can of diced tomatoes
2 tsp chopped garlic
chili pepper to taste
salt and pepper to taste
cup of natural peanut butter

beware of the chili pepper

Procedure:
Put everything except the peanut butter in a pan and simmer
Once it's hot, add the peanut butter
Stir over medium heat until the peanut butter is no longer in chunks
Serve warm

the final product

Notes: Aaaahhhh too much chili pepper!! I thought I was going to burn a whole in my esophagus. My brother ate two cups of it, but I could barely take a few spoonfuls.
Rating: 1.5

Botswana: Mielieroomsop

The Dish: Corn soup
The Country: 71% of Botswana's land is used for public grazing, which has lead to extreme desertification (land drying up).

onions and stuff

Ingredients:
1 medium sized onion
1 tbsp butter
15 ml corn flour
400 ml warm milk
450 ml chicken broth
1 can of cream style sweet-corn
celery salt
pepper

hmmmm.. flavored salt?

Procedure
Chop the onion. Fry it with the butter until slightly brown.
Put the onion and the corn flour into a large pot.  Stir over medium heat for one minute.
Microwave milk for 30 seconds.  Add to pot.  Stir until well mixed.
Add all other ingredients.  (Celery salt and pepper to taste)
Stir over high heat until boiling.

It's a lot yummier and heartwarming than it looks...

Notes:
It was actually so much better than I thought it would be.  I was expecting it to be gross and mushy, but it really was a good soup for a fall afternoon. The only thing I didn't like was the massive amount of onions.  They added to the flavor, but the soup looked a little bit like a pot of worms.

Rating: 7