Green Goodness
As our endeavor to have a garden has produced little fruit, we are excited to now have a plethora of avocados. If you were all here, we would have 
enough for each of you plus some. Our trees are bending at the weight of them. It is a nice problem to have. We now always have something to give to someone when they visit, and we have some tasty salads and toppings for our fajitas. When you mention to a Ugandan that an avocado in the US can cost $2, their face registers shock. Here an avocado costs around 200 shillings (about $.08).
enough for each of you plus some. Our trees are bending at the weight of them. It is a nice problem to have. We now always have something to give to someone when they visit, and we have some tasty salads and toppings for our fajitas. When you mention to a Ugandan that an avocado in the US can cost $2, their face registers shock. Here an avocado costs around 200 shillings (about $.08).Another fruit of choice here is the passion fruit. While you can find these in the supermarkets in the US, they are about
$1 a piece. One would cost only a few cents here. We love the sour but sweet taste of this fruit. It makes a wonderful juice, but we prefer to just scoop them out with a spoon. This picture is one of our several passion fruit vines; as you can see, they have a very unique flower. We aren’t sure if they produce more passion, but they certainly don’t hurt.Hope that you enjoy seeing a couple of the tasty reasons for living in Uganda.
posted by Team Smith @ 7:16 AM
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Delightful! And remember that avocados make a wonderful "spread" for toast. These look like a different species from the Haas avocados that are available here. Is the skin dark when fully ripe?
Enjoy!
Love, AB
Nice to see you have some green good things to enjoy and it's cool to see something you eat. Do you make the fajitas out of tortillas there?
We do enjoy the avocados spread on bread. Some of them turn dark before they are ripe, but they do look different than the Haas avocados in the US.
As for tortillas, Julia, I have made them just out of white flour, but when we returned this time, I brought some packages of the tortillas from the US. It makes such a big difference as making them from scratch takes a bit of time. I prepared a full Mexican meal here one time and it took me abou 1 1/2 days to make everything. Cooking the chickens, getting the meat of the bones, making refried beans, preparing the veggies (must be cleaned a certain way), making tortillas, making chips, and making salsa. When we went to a Mexican restaurant in the US I was amazed as we had our meal within 15 minutes. Gotta love it!
Wow Martha...I'm impressed by your patience in preparing a Mexican meal. How many packages could you bring back?
And it increases respect for the many, many folks in this world who raise their families this way -- have you ever tried preparing an Indian meal from scratch? Or Thai? Or...
One learns patience and prioritizing that North Americans are missing, mostly.
Love,
AB
We brought back 32 tortillas, Jules. Mom is bringing more when she comes in July :)
I don't know if I have the patience for doing this for too long, Aunt Beth, but it was worth it to see some folks that are missing Mexican smile.
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