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When your friends are just posh like that so you get invited to theirs for a raclette dinner.
What is a raclette dinner?
The word ‘raclette’ is both the name of a type of Swiss cheese and the name of the dish itself.
At home, a raclette meal is served using a table-top grill, like the one in this photo. The cheese is melted in small pans called ‘coupelles’, which are placed under the heating element. The grill plate is used to cook meat and vegetables.
You can customise the meal to your liking and serve the melted raclette cheese with whatever you like.
Thank you, dear friend, for a lovely, lovely dinner. It was lots of fun and a night to remember. 🙂
Caption credit: @EatLittleBird
The sun sets over Msasani Bay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Pangavini Island, or as it is known colloquially, Snake Island, is an uninhabited island about 1.5 km off Dar es Salaam‘s coast.
Where was I headed?
Mbudya Island, a gorgeous island NOT infested by snakes, lizards, and rats.
For more pictures and videos taken while sailing to Mbudya, go to bit.ly/19Photos.
Because of all the seafood pictures I post on Instagram, I often get asked for a recommendation on where to get good seafood in Dar es Salaam. I have two standard replies, one of which is on the island of Mbudya, which also happens to make for a great day trip.
Here, I was sharing a plate with a special someone, on her birthday, who was visiting Mbudya for the first time. She was enjoying the food so much that she urged me to take out my phone and snap more pictures.
So there you go, folks: a half-eaten AMAZING grilled fish—straight from the ocean onto our plate via the grill—fantastic cumin-spiced lobster (yes, cumin…unusual but it works…really WELL), and the crispiest French fries.
If ever you are in Dar, and are a lover of seafood (especially in beautiful environments), check out Mbudya. You can thank me later.
If you would like to see more pictures or videos taken on a trip to Mbudya, go to bit.ly/19Photos.
Perfect tiger prawns. Where from? Mediterraneo Restaurant in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Go to bit.ly/MediResto to read my thoughts on this beautiful restaurant on Dar es Salaam’s Indian Ocean shore.
The view from 6° South, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Go to bit.ly/ZanzibarTips to find out more about what there is to see and do on the magical island of Zanzibar.
A lone zebra in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Go to bit.ly/NgorongoroCrater to find out all you need to know about visiting the Ngorongoro Crater.
“…and behold, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved [land] with [which] I am well pleased.’”
The sun beams down over the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Go to bit.ly/40Pics for more stunning pictures and videos taken in the Serengeti National Park.
The sun sets over Msasani Bay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. #NoFilter
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Expanse, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Go to bit.ly/NgorongoroCrater to find out all you need to know about visiting Tanzania’s amazing Ngorongoro Crater.
After a hectic afternoon of fabric shopping, time to rebuild strength with a duck, goat cheese, and green apple pizza (and sundowners of course), at Level 8, overlooking Dar es Salaam’s harbour.
Go to bit.ly/ShowAndTell5 to see the view by night from this same beautiful outdoor rooftop deck.
The only thing better than this amazing seafood platter and the environment in which it was served, was the company in which I was eating it.
I hadn’t seen her in 18 years. We lived in the same hall during our first year in college. She was my best male friend’s college girlfriend. Then suddenly, she was in my city all the way from New York.
It was a true, true delight in all ways! (@KarambeziCafe, I am still waiting for my complimentary crab claws!)
Go to bit.ly/Karambezi to know where you too can find such an awesome seafood platter in Dar es Salaam.
We’d known each other pretty much our whole lives but hadn’t seen each other in 20 years as our lives took us to very different parts of the globe. And then suddenly, we’d both be in the same city at the same time. Damn, @ForliTigress, it was SUCH a great pleasure catching up with you again. I can’t wait till the next time you’re back in town! 🙂
Headed to Nairobi, Kenya
Sunset in the skies. What airline was I flying? Why @OfficialKenyaAirways of course.
Go to bit.ly/KenyaAirways2 to hear my thoughts on the airline that tags itself “The Pride of Africa“.
Perfectly fried fish. Where? @MamaAshantiKenya. The only thing better than perfectly fried fish, is perfectly fried fish in a beautiful environment (and in good company). Go to bit.ly/MamaAshantiNairobi to find out more about this amazing West African restaurant in Nairobi.
Bizarre Eats That Make Everyone Go Mad
(This picture received 475 likes, and 20 comments on Instagram!)
The beauty of senene season—senene is a type of bush cricket/long-horned grasshopper considered a delicacy in parts of East Africa—is having your loved ones who live in parts where senene is harvested sending you some so that you don’t miss out on the season.
As a Muhaya, from northwestern Tanzania, living in Dar es Salaam, come senene season, I receive senene in all forms.
This particular batch of senene, given to me by niece Lucy, was some of the most delicious I ate this past senene season.
Although, the wings and legs of these senene had not been removed (so made for a weird feeling in the back of my throat), they had been smoked, reminding me of back in the day when all the senene I ate would have stayed months over my grandmother’s or aunts’ hearth waiting for my Dad and his family to visit from abroad.
Absolutely delicious!
Go to bit.ly/ShowAndTell5 to see more love-through-senene that I received this past senene season.
Matemwe, Zanzibar
Memories of Sunday in Zanzibar #NoFilter 
Go to bit.ly/ZanzibarTips to find out more about what there is to see, do, and experience on the beautiful island of Zanzibar.
Photo Credit: @RacinesCreations
Everyday things in Matemwe, Zanzibar. To find out how I ended up on this particular coast of Zanzibar, go to bit.ly/TravelDiscovery.
So there you go, folks. I hope you enjoyed my pictorial journey through East Africa. If there’s a picture that particularly meant something to you, please let me know by leaving me a comment below.
Until the next time,
Biche
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