Food Adventures

Well we have had some really good food so far and some that leaves much to be desired.  The kids have done great considering the fact that kids are picky to begin with.  We have only had one meal that they refused to eat and that is the same one I could not eat.  It was some sort of chicken fat or something we could not name that smelled a little like chicken.  Matt did the good dad and husband thing and ate some of all of ours so that we did not have to eat it.  What a man!  We have come to love the juices, especially pear and guanabana.  We have tried a different kind of mango that is really sweet and you just suck the juice out of it.  Other things we have eaten are spinach soup, chicken soup in every way possible with rice or potatoes or both, cheesy noodle soup, chicken noodle soup, potato soup, vegtable soup, red bean soup, broccoli soup and carrot soup.  We have had noodles with ketchup-like sauce and meatballs, radish salad, tomato slices with salt on them, fried bananas, fried plantains, chicken many different ways, beef with mushrooms, beef like tasted like beef jerky, fish with a few different sauces, broccoli salad, green bean salad, carrot salad, coconut balls, some kind of really sweet milk with chunks in it (sounds gross but tastes good), spaghetti, empanadas with cheese, corn or meat in them, some sweet plant that looks like a thick bamboo stick that you suck the juice out of, the egg and fruit ice cream, aqua Loca, fried rice with eggs and hotdog pieces, tiny potatoes called something with an "m", granadilla which is a really good fruit with a thick shell and you just suck out the seeds and swallow them without chewing (the seeds look like fish eggs but are really sweet), and then food we cooked ourselves like grilled cheese and pizza.  We have tried other things too, but I am really bad at remembering names of things so I need to start writing them down when told.  I would say the mango and the avocado are much better here too and the tomatoes are summer tomatoes all year-round.  Oh and I can't believe I forgot, we have eaten rice and potatoes a lot.  So now that I wrote about all that food, I am hungry.  I will probably go eat some plantain chips.