For those of you who haven't heard much about the ministry that God is calling us to in Zambia, we will be living like the Engals - Africa style!! Our family was in Zambia for the month of May, 2010 and we got a foretaste of what life is going to be like. So, with that little taste of the future we are trying to prepare our kids (and ourselves) as much as possible. I've been researching how to make the basics from scratch; butter, sour cream, cheese, peanut butter...
This week our project was the home made peanut butter.
The kids helped me shell the peanuts. Warrick ate more than he contributed. The girls did an awesome job shelling. They didn't forget the skills they learned on our short trip to the bush. They helped me separate the shells from the peanuts (that's how they do it in Zambia... too much to explain), and Warrick figured out it is fun to flick the shells all over the kitchen. And then we blended the peanuts up. What we ended up with is the best peanut butter we've ever eaten!! Sweet Success on the first try. The kids are really excited to be making our own peanut butter now. Unless we have a hand grinder or something like that it'll certainly be difficult to make it in Zambia. No wonder Zambian's don't eat peanut butter. They grow fields and fields of peanuts, but it's too much work to grind it by hand into peanut butter.
Tomorrow's adventure will be making butter. I'll have to let you know how it goes.
As we continue on this adventure of preparing for life in the bush we'll keep try to keep everyone updated on what's going on.
Please pray for us this next week while we are at a mission conference in Cincinnati. We're looking forward to connecting with old friends and sharing with them all God's been doing in our life and ministry. May He be glorified and lifted up.
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