tasty snacks

Well, I am quite a fan of snacks. Although the food and resources here is Senegal are very different, as in most of the world there are many similarities and more similarities than we tend to think... I prefer to say that there are simply many versions of the same snacks! Here are a few photos of what I've been up to lately in the snack department.

 Peanut butter and banana sandwich on some of the most delicious, soft bread I have eaten.

 Unfortunately it was my last as I finished off the peanut butter the lovely Katie Paysinger sent me.

 I made Bissap juice - it is a Senegalese juice made from Hibiscus flowers.

I overestimated and ended up making three and a half of those bottles! So I gave one to my host-family who lives a one minute walk away and they kept saying, "Yow togg nga Bissap et dafa nex na trop! Yow, yow Senegalaise la!" which means, "You cook Bissap and it is so good! You, you are Senegalaese!"

Oh... oops... he is not a snack... but he is very cute. A baby cousin Mouhamed and I during a family baptism. He was exhausted and I was more than willing to take him into my arms for a while.

 Fruit salad - grapes, mandarins, apples, and bananas topped with vanilla yogurt

 We definitely overate that evening (I apologize for the no shirt but I didn't have another photo to use).

Oh, and this! For World Women's Day on March 8th, most of the women at my work bought the same tissue to have their tailor make an outfit to wear together on that day - I chose to make this dress.

I finally found popcorn kernels! Left bowl = my bowl of the traditional salt and butter. Right bowl = Moussa's bowl of sugar and powdered milk (I still think "yuck" for his :)

Cheers,

Lacey