Sunday lunch at Chez Glo

Today the housekeeper, Zed, made lunch for everyone at the guest house. We all gathered in the kitchen and there were half a dozen dishes spread out over the table. The main dish was doro kaiwat, a red curry-like sauce with chicken and whole boiled eggs, as well as a dish of sliced potato and carrot. They had prepared two dozen injera rolls, flatbread cut into long strips and rolled like little sleeping bags. The day manager, Sintayehu (pronounced Sun-tie-you), ate lunch with us while Zed and her assistant chatted on the other side of the kitchen where they had things set up for a coffee ceremony. After we finished lunch, we drank the customary three small cups of coffee and we ate some Japanese sweets that another colleague brought us from Tokyo the other day. The guest house staff tried the mochi an but all said it was too sweet for them. As we drank our coffee, Zed and her assistant ate their lunch. There was a bit of commotion over there and when we looked we saw Zed stealing the last hard-boiled egg from the other girl and stuffing the whole thing in her mouth. The assistant smacked her with a piece of cardboard and they both started laughing, Zed keeping her hand tightly over her mouth so as not to spit out the egg.