We are on a roll with our Cooking Around the World Adventure. Tonight we traveled to the Congo via tabletop when Riley made a Babute (Curried Beef Meatloaf), a traditional Congo recipe for a minced beef meatloaf with apricots flavoured with curry powder. First a few words about the Congo. I am using the name to refer to different countries. Two, I think. There's the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. One was a French territory, the latter, and the other Belgian, the former. But they were united before 1960 until the Democratic Republic declared its independence. The Belgian side of things - the Democratic Republic of the Congo - was called 'Zaire' between 1971 and 1997. In 1971 then-President Mobutu renamed the country Zaire, from a Portuguese mispronunciation of the Kikongo word nzere or nzadi , which translates to "the river that swallows all rivers." And somewhere in there is Middle Congo. Confused yet? I sure am. To simpli...
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