A culinary confession
Well Hello again kids. Its a been a while, and yes I'm sorry, but i couldn't even be bothered to leave my bed to make it to the kitchen, much less out the house to the nearest convenient internet cafe.
But it appears after popping enough pills to make a junkie proud, I'm ½way on my way to feeling almost decent.
Bout time. It's great, there are so many amazing things i can do now that I'm feeling better.... like get my sorry self out of bed.... and stay awake for more than 15 pain-free minutes.... and even walk without feeling like my brain is about to abandon my body on the side of the Mexican street.
And lucky for you, after 5 days of being too sick to eat, you get to hear my thoughts on food.
Admit it, when you hear about someone going to another country, the first thing your really want to know about is, “whats the food like there?” Right? Right?
Ok maybe thats just me...
People down here have this thing with juice. Actually calling it juice is a bit of a misnomer. 'Fruity Water' would probably be a better way of describing the substance. But whatever you call it, i still find it funky. Maybe cuz i don't really drink juice to begin with, but i still might not have minded much if it were orange or apple or grape or some other more normally flavored liquid. Apparently sticking to the basics is not highly popular here. So far I've had banana water, melon water, guava water and some highly popular beverage apparently made from squashed flowers.
Weird.
It's even weirder when you see people walking down the street drinking it through a straw out of a plastic bag. Yes a plastic bag. It looks quite bizarre. But thats just what they do here.
Speaking of fruitish things.....
If it looks like a lemon
and it smells like a lemon
and its name sounds like "lemon"
...don't assume it a lemon.
Tried something weird the other day. For lunch mi hermano took me to this little cafe and we ate tortas Ahogadas... or something like that. Luis told me that this particular dish is unique to Guadalajara and you'd have a hard time finding it in any other part of the country. Basically it's meat stuffed in a French baguette (but of course its not a French baguette, cuz this Mexico not France, thats just the closest thing i could think to relate it to) and sitting in a bowl of salsa and tomato sauce. It was a very difficult thing to eat. (And by difficult i don't mean, hard to get down, i mean hard to eat without making a complete mess of yourself) Kinda soggy and falling apart... but yummy.
Another discovery, local guacamole. Back at home I used to loooooove Guacamole. That was before i came here and found out what real guacamole tastes like. It's a lot more liquidy. Regardless of whether or not that is an actual word. Which i doubt. But anyway, I didn't even recognize it the first time it was served up in front of me. It looked more like a bowl of pea soup than yummy chunky Gauc. I choose to ignore this factor and figured “since its still made of avocados it cant be that much different than what I'm used to”.
This was an inaccurate assumption. The amount of chili powder them must have added to it had to be obscene. I barely put on teaspoon but my whole mouth was in flames. My lips did that painful “i've just eaten something really spicey” tingly thing for the next hour.
Yeah, poor little me.
As entertained as my taste buds have been, i still find myself with cravings for home.
Like.....Ranch dressing. So far all my salads have been notably naked and lacking in dressing of any sort. I (personally) have a hard time eating them that way cuz the lettuce here is funky. I miss my Ranch.
Oh and cookie dough too. Raw cookie dough.
I mentioned that to one of the other volunteers and wondered out loud if we could go to the supermarket and get some. They didn't know what in the heck i was talking about. It would seem that premade cookie dough does not exist in England. I dragged a couple of them to the store with me to show them what i meant, but apparently it doesn't exist here either.
Yep we Americans have perfected the art of unhealthy premade junk food like no one else has.
On a completely unrelated subject, i thought i'd share this picture.
Because it is awsome and makes me smile.
Hope you have a wonderful,cockroach-free day.
But it appears after popping enough pills to make a junkie proud, I'm ½way on my way to feeling almost decent.
Bout time. It's great, there are so many amazing things i can do now that I'm feeling better.... like get my sorry self out of bed.... and stay awake for more than 15 pain-free minutes.... and even walk without feeling like my brain is about to abandon my body on the side of the Mexican street.
And lucky for you, after 5 days of being too sick to eat, you get to hear my thoughts on food.
Admit it, when you hear about someone going to another country, the first thing your really want to know about is, “whats the food like there?” Right? Right?
Ok maybe thats just me...
People down here have this thing with juice. Actually calling it juice is a bit of a misnomer. 'Fruity Water' would probably be a better way of describing the substance. But whatever you call it, i still find it funky. Maybe cuz i don't really drink juice to begin with, but i still might not have minded much if it were orange or apple or grape or some other more normally flavored liquid. Apparently sticking to the basics is not highly popular here. So far I've had banana water, melon water, guava water and some highly popular beverage apparently made from squashed flowers.
Weird.
It's even weirder when you see people walking down the street drinking it through a straw out of a plastic bag. Yes a plastic bag. It looks quite bizarre. But thats just what they do here.
Speaking of fruitish things.....
If it looks like a lemon
and it smells like a lemon
and its name sounds like "lemon"
...don't assume it a lemon.
Tried something weird the other day. For lunch mi hermano took me to this little cafe and we ate tortas Ahogadas... or something like that. Luis told me that this particular dish is unique to Guadalajara and you'd have a hard time finding it in any other part of the country. Basically it's meat stuffed in a French baguette (but of course its not a French baguette, cuz this Mexico not France, thats just the closest thing i could think to relate it to) and sitting in a bowl of salsa and tomato sauce. It was a very difficult thing to eat. (And by difficult i don't mean, hard to get down, i mean hard to eat without making a complete mess of yourself) Kinda soggy and falling apart... but yummy.
Another discovery, local guacamole. Back at home I used to loooooove Guacamole. That was before i came here and found out what real guacamole tastes like. It's a lot more liquidy. Regardless of whether or not that is an actual word. Which i doubt. But anyway, I didn't even recognize it the first time it was served up in front of me. It looked more like a bowl of pea soup than yummy chunky Gauc. I choose to ignore this factor and figured “since its still made of avocados it cant be that much different than what I'm used to”.
This was an inaccurate assumption. The amount of chili powder them must have added to it had to be obscene. I barely put on teaspoon but my whole mouth was in flames. My lips did that painful “i've just eaten something really spicey” tingly thing for the next hour.
Yeah, poor little me.
As entertained as my taste buds have been, i still find myself with cravings for home.
Like.....Ranch dressing. So far all my salads have been notably naked and lacking in dressing of any sort. I (personally) have a hard time eating them that way cuz the lettuce here is funky. I miss my Ranch.
Oh and cookie dough too. Raw cookie dough.
I mentioned that to one of the other volunteers and wondered out loud if we could go to the supermarket and get some. They didn't know what in the heck i was talking about. It would seem that premade cookie dough does not exist in England. I dragged a couple of them to the store with me to show them what i meant, but apparently it doesn't exist here either.
Yep we Americans have perfected the art of unhealthy premade junk food like no one else has.
On a completely unrelated subject, i thought i'd share this picture.
Because it is awsome and makes me smile.
Hope you have a wonderful,cockroach-free day.