Una Gran Adventura

I don’t know about the correctness of my Spanish there… but its fitting for the morning.  So… I wanted to recount for all of you readers my morning adventures.

Goal for today: Make and eat guacamole

Step 1 – Go to the feria (farmer’s market).  Change of plans… go to Price Smart.
Step 2 – Buy veggies and chips.  Accept that you are not making guacamole for a small army.  Buy nothing.
Step 3 – Go to corner store for veggies and chips.  They don’t have avocado, that seems essential.  Buy nothing.
Step 4 – Walk to Jumbo for veggies and chips.  Fill up the basket and figure out how to ask the muchacho to weigh it all.  Stay confused because he bags and prices only half of what’s in the basket.  Hmm.
Step 5 – Check out and realize some of the veggies were apparently free… weird.  I mean, that’s what gratis means, right?
Step 6 – Realize blood sugar has plummeted due to eating only lucky charms for breakfast… stop for pizza.
Step 7 – Get home to the house that was supposed to be empty and find host family there.  Stop and think how to ask to use the kitchen.
Step 8 – Wash all the veggies and ask for a cutting board and knife.
Step 9 – Get questioned by host family on all of your ingredients… do you really put those in guacamole… umm… yes.
Step 10 – Host mom cuts up onion and garlic and puts it in the food process, then takes cilantro to do the same.
Step 11 – Begin to cut up tomato when host dad says he can do it better.  Hand over knife.
Step 12 – Do nothing while guacamole is prepared in front of you.
Step 13 – Get spoon back and accept instructions to stir.
Step 14 – Learn the secret that putting the pit of the avocado in with the guacamole keeps it from turning brown.
Step 15 – Eat and enjoy :)

Totally worth it.