Well here a quick little post with some good news for you. Les Enfants du Desert still wants to move forward with a trial at one of their centers starting mid to late March. Therefore, Morella and I are moving head long into traiing the ladies coops on the fabrication of the CereAmine. So, to that end, we have tentatively schedule the training for the last week of February. Mind you that neither she nor I have ever seen this process, so it ought to be interesting. Our directions are as follows: One has to buy the grains, clean the grains (by hand), dry the grains (in the yard on mulafas), roast the grains (using charcoal and great big pots), grind the grains (this we take to an official grinder to have done), mix the grains together (I assume that the grinder can accomplish this step with the previous one) then mix in the peanut butter which has gone through the same process on it's little lonesome. The peanuts can't be blended along with the rest of the grains because it will clog up the grinder. Good lord I think we will have to hand grind it...please allah don't let it be the accomplished by using the antiquated gigantic mortar and pestle I see around here. The mortar is made of wood and is 5 feet long. The pestle is a hollowed out tree trunk. You should see these ladies muscles. I am most curious (read anxious) about how one manually mixes 4K of peanut butter into 26 K of floured corn, millet, beans and wheat to form a lovely powdered cereal. Oh yeah, and the women only speak Hassaniya. This should be a breeze.
Between now and then, we are off to WAIST (West African Invitational Softball Tournament) in Dakar. Yippee a vacation.
Cheers from here
1 comment:
Sharon:
It sure seems like a lot of work. And where do you get the time to do all that reading?
Hope all is well.
LP
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