Market day is coming up but for now Dahlia and I are out of
vegetables. We were talking about dinner
and decided on rice and beans but we were both really craving something
green. A few weeks ago Grace cooked
something called Kisamvu (kind of like spinach that is ground and then cooked)
and it was delicious! She had picked it
from a bush in her back yard. We are
getting much more adventurous in our cooking so Dahlia and I decided to try it
out. We asked Grace how to pick and cook
the kisamvu and after school we came home to try it out. We rolled up our sleeves, picked some leaves
from our back yard, borrowed a mortar and pestle, and set off to work grinding
the leaves. About three minutes in our
arms were ready to fall off and we thought we had done a good enough job. Twenty minutes of cooking later and the kisamvu
was looking nothing like what it did when Grace made it and there was a knock
on the door. Stela and Grace came to
check up on us. We timidly showed them
out attempt and Stela literally fell on the ground laughing. Grace, with a look of pity in her eyes, said,
“get a new pot, we will try this again.”
Twenty five minutes of grinding away with the mortar and pestle (I am
definitely going to feel that tomorrow) and another 45 minutes of cooking and
the kisamvu was ready. It was totally worth
the wait and Dahlia and I got to enjoy out must desired vegetable.
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