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updates! there are a couple new photo sets up on andersonbowen. you can click photo or africa on the links at the right of the blog. paige took pictures at a printmaking workshop we attended with local artist fred mutebi. he spent a year in tennessee as a fulbright scholar and has an amazing portfolio. we’re hoping to spend more time with him and of course buy some art. also up are select photos (with captions) from our first month here. and check out the quicktime movie of the drive home to kampala from the MIHV field site in ssembabule. if you’re not patient enough to sit through four minutes at 1 frame per second, there’s a speedy :39 sec version at 6 fps. you can always use the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll through the photos at your own speed, too. quicktime pro is a pretty nifty little application, by the way.

i probably won’t get a satellite radio until the next time i fly through amsterdam (shop.buy.fly!), so i’ve been getting my NPR fix with podcasts. i get a weekly 20min digest of marketplace, science comentary by robert krulwich, sports commentary by frank deford and the full hour of on the media. pretty sweet.

speaking of ipods, i’d be interested to find out what people use to rip dvds to an mpeg. thanks.

i don’t mean to always write about food, but so it goes. i got on a granola kick before we moved to africa because we had three leftover bags of granola from our wedding sunday brunch. there’s no granola in kampala so we’ve been making our own. here’s my recipe for all you tree huggers out there:

3/4 cup canola oil
3/4 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup honey
(if we had real maple syrup, i’d probably put 3/4 cup of that in, too)
4 Tbl butter
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbl grated ginger

put all that stuff together and heat it up or microwave it so you can stir it up and mix it. put the following in a big mixing bowl:

1/2 cup wheat bran
1/2 cup sesame seeds
3/4 cup slivered almonds
3/4 cup chopped cashews
3/4 cup chopped brazil nuts
3/4 cup sunflower seeds
(or 3/4 cup pumpkin seeds)
6 cups quaker oatmeal (not the minute kind)

in four or five stages, pour the liquid over all the dry stuff and stir it up real good. apparantly the secret to crispy granola is to fully coat the dry stuff. spread the mixture out on greased cookie sheets, and stick it in the oven at something like 300 degrees. you have to be fairly vigilant and take it out and stir it every 10 min or so to keep it from burning. we don’t have a thermometer on our oven, but we go for like 40-50 min.

once it’s done, stir in the dried fruit. don’t cook the dried fruit, it’ll turn to rock.

3/4 cup chopped dried pineapple
3/4 cup currants (dried like raisins)

yum. 101phil 101ht