Saturdays

The first saturday here we drove an hour outside of the city to a small town on the beach. Nothing like a beach without the smell of sun tan lotion in the air and without two thousand umbrellas covering the sand, it was nice and quiet. We walked around and ate some great fresh ceviche and catch of the day and washed it down with cold Donas.

Last Saturday we went to a town an hour outside of the city called Granada. It reminded me a lot of, Antigua, the town I lived in Guatemala, colonial style architecture with lots of vibrant colored buildings and a central square. There was a festival going on so all the fritanga ladies were in full force in the park. Fritanga is fried food. There were tons of ladies frying up chicken, plantains, potatoes, empanadas, chicken gizzards, really anything you can throw into a pot of oil and fry up, they do! We opted for fruit smoothies

This weekend Matt had to be away for work so I decided to play around with our new food processor. I went to the market and bought a bunch of fixins for gazbacho. I chopped, and diced, and shredded, and processed, all in one machine, it was great. The only problem was . . .our fridge decided to break . . .so instead of cold gazpacho it will probably be warm, spicy tomato soup when Matt gets back. I also picked up a bunch of peanuts to make some peanut butter. That didn’t turn out quite as I hoped for either . . the peanuts tasted like bleach, maybe the lady at the market stored them near cleaning products??? Ill just give it another whirl soon.