As promised: How much was that celery?

Hello all, thought I would do a food post this week because I have had some notable food fun upon my return to Congo. First, for some reason when I was on my luxurious solo shopping trip the Friday I returned, I decided that celery would be a nice addition to my school lunches and something I would look forward to eating. Like in France, you take your produce to a dude who weighs it on a special scale in the produce department to tell you the price. If you don't know or forget to do this and end up at the cash register with an  unstickered piece of produce, you get lots of dirty looks! Learned this in France though so now I don't forget (in general). I handed my celery to the weighing dude, and this is the sticker I got back.

12,875 Congolese Francs = $13.90.Command decision time. And I command decided to buy it anyway! Best celery ever! Was able to eat it in my lunches with carrots and share some in a chop salad with friends Thursday night. Just polished it off today. Worth it. (to me at least)

This is my assortment of veggies I cooked for last week, Squash at a much more manageable 2,934 Congolese Francs = $3.18. Turnips at 2,485 Congolese Francs = $2.70. I got the brilliant idea to make canned spinach into pesto (aka pretending that spinach is pesto!) Quite good if I do say so!:

At the same store as the celery (run by an Indian family who has kids at our school and gives us a 15% discount!) was this gem. Had to have two boxes (both good) just to puzzle over this:

Kellogs Museli. For gentlemen. More epic quotes from the package "Kellog's Museli is a breakfast cereal for men who script their own success. Gentlemen like you who know who they are and where they want to go."Really? I am trying to imagine a context where this marketing is sensible (Some sort of Arabic store where there's a men's side and women's side? Or just that only men would eat something as ridiculous as Kellog's Museli for breakfast?) The cereal did not poison me because I am not a gentleman, I actually thought it was good. Another amusing Congo food story for the books.

Lastly, you know how a lot of food says 'Store in a Cool Dry Place'? Well the only 'Cool Dry Place' in Congo is the freezer. Forgot to take a picture for you, but my freezer contains: Flour, Sugar, Cat food, noodles, raisins... anything that bugs might decide to eat. Rarely do recipes say "Take your flour out of the freezer to thaw it" but I now have that extra step! :-) 

We took the temperature this morning and it was 76F again. Didn't get crazy warm today, probably not to 90F but maybe close? Very pleasant! Love to all!