Bram likes to start his day with Morvite - a sorghum-based porridge, enriched with mineral, vitamins and loads of sugar. According to Bashi's grandfather, who like many Batswana worked in the South African mines, this is miner's food. Mine-food will make you very strong, so the big Morvite-bag travels with us everywhere.
Some people prefer the wide variety of fruits that grow in Mozambique. Mango, papaya, baby bananas, pineapple, grapes - who needs anything else? A healthy and yummy breakfast, especially if you wash it down with champagne (note the green glass).
After the first breakfast follows the second, just to taste if the leftovers from yesterdays dinner are as yummy as we remember.
Meanwhile preparations for the next dinner have to start before it gets too hot. Next to the fruits Mozambicans grow nice vegetables also. A lot of the veggies are quite similar to those the Batswana grow; pumpkin-like stuff, all sorts of leaves, tomatoes.
Despite the similarity in the basic ingredients, the resulting dishes are quite different. According to us Mozambicans have definitely more skills in preparing tasty food, so back home we'll start practising. The mixtures of leaves, ground peanuts or coconut, and yet to be discovered ingredients are especially scrumptious.
Food-wise the ocean and the rivers offer something dry Botswana doesn't have: seafood. Beforehand we only knew the famous Mozambican shrimps; you get them as a frozen luxury item in Botswana and South Africa. But there's so much more: big fish, small fish, squid, shellfish - all very appetizing.
All in one: Mozambique was great! Not only food-wise, but altogether; the people, the landscape, de ocean, the general atmosphere - certainly a place to visit again.
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