Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Vegetables

Vegetables in Kigali are generally good and cheap.  Avacados for a quarter, pineapples for under a dollar, a kilo of tomatoes for under a dollar.  The main market in Kimironko is quite good with a good selection, though usually the same set of produce.  You can regularly buy pretty fresh red, white, and green onions, roma (and only roma) tomatos, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava (which scares me - that whole neurotoxin thing), carrots, radishes, lettuce, brocolli, green peppers, green beans, chillis, mushrooms, zucchini, eggplant, garlic, ginger, thyme, rosemary, mint, cilantro, basil, parsley, rhubarb, pineapple, oranges, local lemons, limes, apples, passion fruit, tree tomatos, papaya, and sometimes watermellon and fennel. Oh, and tons of scary dried fish, large carcases of hanging meat, chickens in the "local frozen," "imported frozen," and waling around variety.  The only weird thing is that the variety doesn't ever change.  All tomatoes are roma tomatoes, all chillis are the same kind of thai green chillis.  I kind of miss going to the market and seeing what new or different things they have in stock.  And for someone who has never particularly liked celery, there have been a ridiculous number of times I have needed it for something and failed to be able to find it.  Any suggestions for something other than celery for the stuffing for Christmas? (Other than apples and onions?)  Celery salt, strangely, is available - so I might need to improvise there.

I have to go to the market tomorrow to buy things for Christmas.  The whole expedition (and then the washing process) is somewhat lengthy, but it's really a lot of fun.  But to show you something of what's available, the other day Elizabeth and I went a little crazy on vegetable patrol and bought the following for about $30 USD:

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