Mmmm...food, my favorite :)

Of course I would have a special posting just to talk about food! So, unfortunately, my meals everyday usually consist of peanut butter sandwiches, cereal, tuna sandwiches, pancakes, bean and cheese burritos, and eggs and toast, but sometimes, only sometimes, I get to splurge and taste some of the amazing local Honduran food. Last Sunday, Graciella, the founder of the school invited is over for dinner. She made a traditional Honduran dish called "baleadas" which basically taste like bean and cheese burritos with a little twist. The only thing I didn't really like was the white cheese is usually served with, it has a really strong taste, and it sort of crumbled in your mouth, I just couldn't get used to it!

I also had to splurge and try the local seafood, I know the soup looks kind of scary with the crab legs sticking out, but it was delicious! And it came with rice and bread...I love my carbs!!

I also got to try "pan de coco" a local Garifuna treat. (The Garifuna are "Black Caribs" who originated from South Africa and settled on the Bay Islands and the northern coast of Honduras.) You can always find Garifuna people along the beach, selling this desert, as well as sweet rolls, and they also offer to braid your hair. I'm not sure exactly what the desert was made from, but it tasted sweet, and a little bitter, and had the consistency coconut.

This was by far my favorite dish so far, they were called nothing special, just chicken tacos, but they were sooooo good, they were rolled up like taquitos, and had some sort of red sauce and cheese on top, and they were served on top of picked cabbage, yum, yum!! If it looks funny it's because I remembered to take a picture of it after I had already inhaled the first bite! It was the first time I had meat that wasn't from a can. (Sara is a vegetarian and we do most of our cooking together, and to tell the truth, I don't have enough guts to buy and try to prepare any of the meat I've seen in the markets here, it looks really scary!)