Our cook, Choti, left at the end of last month. She went back to her village with her brother. Since then we have been cooking for ourselves, except for one day where we had a new woman come so we could try her food. While her food wasn't amazing, it was very good, and she left the kitchen clean. (Dolly managed to make some eggplant the other night that was excellent, despite having no confidence in her process of cooking)

We will start having her come daily soon, and she will come when we are at work, so when we get home there will be dinner ready. This will be very nice, as we often get back hungry and unsure of when the cook would show up, and when she did it would be another 45 minutes of babysitting before we would eat. Its sad that she had to leave the way she did, but we had been talking about finding a different cook from about the first month after we hired her.