Howdy all.
We spent the last two days catching up on some tourista things, getting home late both days, so I haven’t been able to post anything.
I plan on entering my notes and diary entries even after we get home, so there will be more.
I will also be posting most of my photos (almost 800 so far) to a series of smugmug.com albums for people to browse, but sending Dennis’ family 10 photos took almost an hour, so that will wait until I get home too.
A few points to tide you over today:
- Fried Cheese is the most amazing food ever created. Bar none.
- It’s incredibly sad that both of the tourist areas that we just visited are pretty much off limits for locals because they simply can’t afford to get there and pay the $5 admission. Pablo was going to bring his wife, because his driving these groups is the only way they’d ever get to see them.
- Mmmmm…. fried cheese.
- It’s like living in two worlds when half the people you know make 50 cordovas a day or less and single cordovas are valuable currency, and then you walk into town and shoes are 280 cordovas for cheap vinyl sneakers. I never know how much is appropriate amounts to pay for anything. For the market, a couple of cords is plenty, but in the city that same amount is just a couple of nickels. They might as well be two totally different economies. A hundred cord note is a five dollar bill, basically, and in some places you don’t even get change from a purchase, and in some places you can’t get change because that’s more than they make all day.
- Do they actually get any meat or milk from cows that skinny?
- Did I mention how awesome fried cheese is?
- Nicaraguan christians are a passionate bunch, full of love for God and each other. The churches are big families and it is very obvious. You can feel the connection that everyone has when you walk in. It’s wonderful, and I wish we could emulate it at home. We can, and we will, and it will start with me.
- Fried cheese fried cheese fried cheese!!!
Might post tomorrow, might not. If not, see you when I get home.
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I will not be making you fried cheese, unless you take up marathons and the numbers go even lower.
I had to laugh when I read about ‘the numbers’ post. We eat very similarly…except when it comes to cheese. My husband would happily be done with it, but his weaker vessel wife just must have that melty gooey food of the gods. MrPages will have to post a recipe for this fried cheese….besides, don’t we all want to go to Heaven a little sooner if possible?
Yes I want to go to heaven sooner, but I don’t want him to get there before me! LOL
The closest equivalent that we have here in Manitoba is Feta. Find the driest feta you can buy, slice it into 1/4″ pieces and fry it with oil at medium heat. It takes a bit of time to figure out how long to leave it in the pan before you flip it (too soon and it is a gooey mess, too long and you end up with an extremely hard hunk). You can skip the oil and use a non-stick pan.
Serve with beans and rices, fried plantain (don’t forget the sour cream) and a cabbage and tomato salad with lots of vinegar.
We’ll see if we can sneak you in some contraband, MrPages!
Well, that sounds like supper for sure! Feta is a staple in our house, and beans and rice are a favourite. (Would a little mole sauce be out of place?) I may need to wait until my mother-in-laws tomatoes are up in July/August for the salad to go with. Nothing worse than a sub-par tomato.
And Mrs.Pages, you have no idea how touched I was by your last comment on my Isaiah post. Thank you so much.
Mole, pronounced “moleh”, is strictly a Mexican dish and is forbidden in my home.
To be fair, my sister says it very much depends on how it is prepared. She was a missionary in Mexico for quite some time so I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. But for now I can say that I never met a mole I liked
So it sounds like we will have to have a get-together at our place and I will cook some Nicaraguan food! By the way it is not polite to refuse to eat the fried feta when you are a guest at someone else’s house
Well MrPages may be in luck, low fat feta and a non-stick pan would fall within my acceptable health parameters,
And as low fat feta is a staple in our home, along with beans, rice, and cabbage, I think he’ll be most happy.
Plantains, I may need some help with, however!
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