Easily my favorite new food and also a very traditional Honduran dish. There are baleada restaurants all over the place and they are not expensive and also delicious!
Now that I can make my own tortillas (well, now that I hope I can make my own tortillas :) ), I can make my own delicious baleadas.
So… what are they? I’m sure you’re curious.
Homemade tortilla + beans + cheese + eggs = delicious.
Then, if you want to make it really awesome you add chicken or sausage or avocado… yum :)
Today I had a cooking adventure with some Honduran friends. I actually didn’t have my camera, and since I was covered in flour and shortening, that was probably a good thing. But here are some pictures Mike caught for me.
When I got there we started by making empañadas. This is a bread dough stuffed with all different kinds of goodness. Our were cinnamon and cream cheese… yum! Mine were not very pretty when I started, but got better over time.
Then we made corn tortillas, which is what I’m doing here. They are super easy, by the way.
Then lastly, we made flour tortillas. These are delicious. I’m not kidding, they are my favorite thing in Honduras. They are thick and yummy and I needed to learn how to make them, dough and all. So, Teresa was patient with me and actually measured things for me so I could try to learn. There was still a lot of adding a pinch of this and just a little more water… but in general I think I’ve got it. I’m going to try on my own tomorrow. But the dough is the easy part. After that its like watching guys at a pizzeria. They just throw the dough back and forth hand to hand making perfect circles. I made some really cool map shapes, but not many perfect circles. I need some practice :) And the daughters in the family just laughed at me b/c they’ve been doing this as long as they can remember.
All that to say, it was really fun! And this week’s short-term team got to help too. They made their own tortillas for their lunch!
Yep, I said it. There are times when I just flat out don’t want to do it.
Yesterday I woke up at 5:30 in the morning feeling terrible, bad headache, nauseous, just bad. Then I rode a pretty rocky ferry for an hour… that didn’t help. When I got home I called Erin and she brought me some medicine, because she’s awesome. While she was there the precious kids that we love stopped by. Bethany made them some oatmeal and took it outside b/c I did not want to get off the couch. Finally I mustered up enough energy to take them some water and say hello.
Well, they were carrying around a bag of clothes that they had dug out of various people’s trashcans. And since they were going to be walking around awhile they asked if they could leave it in our gate and come back for it around 4. Of course, I said, and why don’t have some dinner for you? I was of course thinking I would be feeling better by then. They left and I promptly feel asleep for the next 3 hours… whoops. By the time I woke up I still didn’t feel good or have the inclination or really time to cook much of anything.
So what happens when you don’t feel good and precious kids come to your gate anyway? You end up ordering pizza, reading the Jesus Storybook Bible, and sitting on the driveway chatting for an hour. It was the best thing I’ve done all week. And I loved every second of it. I still went to bed at 8:30 last night, but it was worth it.
It just reminds me that the Lord doesn’t wait for us to be at our best to ask us to be obedient. In the middle of our weakness, our unshowered, nauseous weakness, He just asks that we obey and share what we’ve been given. Maybe its food, maybe it’s a word of truth. Nothing life shattering happened yesterday except a kick in the face reminder that life is not about me. And if I can’t get my butt of the couch to love on kids that have been digging through the trash all day then I don’t really understand the love the Lord has given me. So I’m thankful He brought them to the gate.
One day soon I hope to get a picture of these sweet kids to share with you. For now just pray for them. They are coming back soon for food and another story :)
After team #1 came through we had some time off before hosting our second team of the summer who arrive today! We’re so excited about this team from Gainesville, FL who will be working with us this week!
Since we had some down time I decided to take the advice I’ve been given and enjoy the fact that I’m going to live near one of the coolest reefs in the world for the next couple of years. Scuba diving has always terrified me, the whole breathing under water thing just didn’t sound very safe. But there is a great deal out on Utila to get your basic training, so Jeremy and I headed out there to try it out. We both really loved it, although I think he loved it more since he hasn’t come back yet :)
Aside from having some good brother/sister time, I really was blown away by the whole experience. I just keep coming back to being totally in AWE of a creator God who put every detail into place. So many things that I haven’t ever seen and don’t even know exist are working together in perfect unison to maintain a beautiful and well-designed creation. When you go underwater you see a whole new world. And its such a small glimpse… I look at coral and I only see what’s going on on the surface and big enough for my eye to see. I see small fish that form a cleaning station to clean bigger fish and know they have to work together to get the job done. Its just amazing all the details. And to think that God spoke all this into existence by His very words. It truly is a miracle.
So today I am reminded of the Lord’s power and creativity and His unmistakable goodness to let us sneak glimpses of it.
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