My rainy adventure

What a day what a day. I realized last night that I was out of fresh market produce, my fridges salad crispers were almost empty. So I called my friend Marica and asked her to accompany me to the market. When I do my shopping I buy all my greens from the market,I find that they have everything that is in the supermarket but it's so much cheaper and fresher, I just love cooking with fresh ingredients. Limbe market is a very big market and it stocks a wide variety of produce, from vegetables to aromatics such as sweet paprika which I got some of. The aroma and rich color of it was just to die for, and did you know they have sweet paint as well. If you have had colored meat or malambe that's the stuff they use. It was pouring as we did our shopping but we were not going to let the rain deter us, we were two women on a mission!!! We went from one end of the market to ther other,picking up this and that, interested in knowing what I bought? Just you wait coz tonight I'm cooking up a storm and I'm going to tell you just how my experiment goes. Ladies don't be too saddidyto go to the market it's a fulfilling experience each time because I get a chance to interact with the tomato lady, the paprika guy, the carrier bag boy, who all enrich my life in one way or the other! What I bought sweet paprika Fresh red bell pepper Sweet potatoes(not for tea but I'm doing a bakes sweet potato salad) Malambe Green beans Red onion Juicy red tomatoes Potatoes Red kidney beans Fresh ground nuts(it's that time of year and I'm love them) Extra ripe bananas for cornmeal fritters(zitumbuwa) Ground nut flour Dried mfutso wa chitambe local is lekker!!!!! English cucumber(long and very green) this is beautiful in salads and sandwiches So you see I shopped up a storm and I'm set for good eats!!