Playing in the kitchen

Remember when we were told as kids not to play with our food??

Well, as a Grannie, I am doing just that. Yesterday's dinner was a combination of a meat sauce, local posho (a corn-meal like staple) and cheese. It was pretty good, but the posho was a bit soft. Next time we will make it with less water so that it stiffer.

We have made scalloped matooke (bananas) and matooke (potato) salad. Matooke is a starchy banana used almost daily by people raised in southern Uganda. (People in the west use cassava flour to make bread,;in the north, millet flour and peanuts are the staples.) I think that almost any recipe that uses potatoes can be made with matooke. French fries from both poatotoes and matooke are already made and sold here. I am thinking of trying matooke soup, mashed matooke with sour cream and chives, etc. There could be a whole new meaning to local foreign foods. Or is that foreign local foods??