Last night I helped my madre make tortillas for dinner. Guatemalans eat tortillas with every dinner, actually almost every meal I think! The last 3 nights we went to a tortilleria around the corner to buy them, but last night Olga made them. it's ar eally long process; you have to buy the maiz (corn) and then make some powder and then some complicated dough. I helped her pat them out - you kind of pass them between your two hands really quickly to spread them and shape them. I made 2 in the time it took her to make about 25!
They taste different from American tortillas, definitely. I like them, but am not crazy about them. Some of their meals aren't very filling though, so to eat a heavier bread with meals is good for keeping you from getting hungry!
Last night we also had a really good dinner...some sort of vegetable soup with pasta in it, and some weird vegetables that I didn't recognize on the side, and also some rice. They have a bunch of fruits and veggies here that I am only learning the Spanish word for ... never seem them in the US!
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Take photos of the house, inside & out. Can you take a shot of the inside of the chicken bus too?
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