Eating Well in Uganda

a great salad


M&Ms, Reeses, Three Musketeers, girl scout's Thin Mints, Skittles, Hershey's Bar, Twix... Did i get everything?
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Some friends came over and we happily cooked ourselves a good 'ole american meal: Salad. It feels nice to gather and speak english in our casual cadence and usual vocabulary; an added bonus is choosing food without the "heaviness" of a Ugandan meal. Though I've come to enjoy the typical fare:
-matooke (steamed green banana that tastes somehow like potatoes)
-ebinyebwa (ground nut sauce)
-kowunga (aka posho, mix of maize flour, water and salt)
-ebijanjaalo (beans)
-irish potatoes
-enva (greens that are a little less tasty than spinach)
-mwogo (cassava, a dense root)
-lumonde (sweet potato)
-ensujju (pumpkin)
-emboga (cabbage usually fried in tons of oil)

So it's a happy meal when we cook for ourselves. We (mostly others) try hard to eat healthy, delicious foods. But at times, we (mostly me) just go for the delicious.

After our healthy delicious salad we all pulled out the chocolate treats that were in recent packages. Thanks america! :)