And Some Good Mexican Food...

... to tide me over while I'm in Central America!!

I actually took pictures of some of my favorite foods here (yeah, I know, I'm kind of lame...)

Here's my very very favorite food - it's called a gringa! The gringa is on the right, it's a big lump of white cheese and BBQ pork all melted together, and some places even add pineapple. It's eaten in flour tortillas. It's really really yummy!
I didn't get a picture of "mole" (MO-lay) which would be my next favorite food... It sounds kind of sick, it's chile sauce mixed with chocolate. It's usually eaten over chicken, or used instead of enchilada sauce!

Here is a "Guajolote" (wah-hoh-LOW-tay), or also called "pambazo" in outher parts of the country. It's a big sandwich. The bread is dipped in really yummy sauce and toasted on a grill. It is filled with meat (I like pork, chicken, or chorizo sausage), lettuce, tomato, beans, jalapeños, and cream. Definitely a good choice in mexican food!
And here's one that would make "health fanatics" cringe even more than the first two foods - the "Elote" (ei-LOW-tay). It's corn on the cob. Now, corn on the cob is pretty good for you - here they serve it boiled or roasted. However, when you eat it the mexican way is when it starts the arteries a'cloggin'. First you put on butter. Then mayonaise. Roll it in shredded white cheese. Squeeze on some lime juice, and sprinkle on some chile powder. There you have your cooked mayonaise on a stick! No really, it's really tasty! The one in the picture was bought on the side of the road out in the boonies. It's the best elote place!!
And I'm sure you're familiar with tamales, but you've probably eaten them with chicken or pork and spicy sauce. I like them like that too. However, since tamales are commonly eaten for breakfast, I usually acompany my chicken and green sauce tamal with a sweet tamal! The pink think in the picture is indeed a tamal. It's stawberry flavored with raisin. My favorite is pineapple flavored! We had gringos here when we were eating these particular tamales at church, and there were two guys looking at the tamales and thought the pink ones looked gross. but I gave them a taste, and they also liked them better than the meat ones! The women were afraid to try the sweet ones... they missed out...

Next Sunday, I'm off to the world of "ketchup is the spiciest thing we can eat." HONDURAS!! I'm very excited about going there... there are even foods there that I enjoy, even though they aren't super flavorful. Looking especially forward to baleadas (flour tortillas with beans, scrambled eggs, and melted cheese), pupusas (gorditas to mexicans, or corn meal patties stuffed with cheese, meat, or beans), and cuajada - my favorite Honduran food (salted curdled milk that's hardened enough to cut with a knife! No, I'm not kidding...).

I probably won't be updating this blog for another 2 weeks or so, so enjoy the 4 posts I did today!!

Merry Christmas!!