Over the weekend we had a birthday for a friend. We 'themed' the party and ended up using some food colouring in the food. We invited our landlord and landlady to join us for the meal, and they were quite intrigued by the blue food. At some point one of suggested that we should try putting some food colouring in nsmina (the local food that is made out of maize flour). Nsima is very much the stape food in Malawi, it is eaten at lunch and dinner, and sometimes it is eaten in porridge form for breakfast.My landlady, Mrs. Adams, loved the idea of trying out blue nsima. Thus, last night we ate blue nsima. It was a little shocking to see on the plate (usually it's white), but it was a delicious meal. Last night we ate it with beans, pumpkin leaves with groundnut (like peanuts) flour, and bean leaves.
The picture shows Mrs. Adams enjoying some blue nsima.
This is a riot! It looks really shocking on the plate!
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Allison
You should try turning Nsima into different coulours to see if it improves over the blues appeal...I suggest Pink or Purple [both are very appetizing colours ;-)lol ]
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ReplyDeleteI just got emailed a copy of the EWB 2009 Annual Report - Your photographs made it to the front and back covers :-)It was nice to see a report about all the work you are doing over in Africa and how you are helping out.
Hey lady, glad to see you are entertaining yourself and others now that you're back. I will be seeing Di soon. Hope you are having fun! XOXO Christie & family
ReplyDeletehaha that's amazing. glad to see she was open to trying something new and creative.
ReplyDeletewe miss you at UBC. take care.
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