Peru # 1

I will now attempt to post about my trip to Peru. It will take me about a week to post only a few of the stories from the trip. My first post will focus on the food. Before we embarked on the trip we were told that we would not be eating much and our calorie count would be down. I think throughout the whole trip I was hungry once, and that was only for about 20 minutes. Here are a few pictures of food that I ate. I should have really taken pictures of all the meals I had but I don’t think I could fit them into one post. Food for me was either hit or miss. I ate all I could, but only about 85% of what I ate agreed with my weak stomach. Obviously I ate what I was told to ate and I did it with a happy heart. Some of the food was OMGosh the best food, so was not. Here are a few pictures.

This is the team and our FH people eating at a restaurant called Roky’s . Pretty much their only meal there is Half a roasted chicken with French Fries. Oh man so much food. And As you see Inca Cola that everyone ordered. I actually got a Fanta. For some reason Inca cola and I don’t see eye to eye. I am not a big fan of my soda tasting like cotton candy and going flat immediately after opening.

When the team had a little free time we decided to walk to the local market to buy some treats. Well this is the treat that Nate and I split. As you can see it may look like a normal cream filled donut, but no this thing was heaven on a plate. lets just say the “donut” was a fabulously baked circular piece of bread. It was a mix between donut and bagel. It was oh my goodness. well it took me awhile to finish it due to it’s richness but I did and oh man.

This next dessert was purchased the next day. I had a little sample of something like this while we were at the camp, so I had to buy myself another one. As you can see the top is jello, and the cake is cake. But the white stuff may look like frosting but it is far from it. It is a very thick creamy yummyness. It kins melted in your mouth. Oh man yet again another fabulous dessert for me.

While we were in the community we went for house visits. I will get more into to this later, but one of the houses served us this delicious dish. You may not be able to tell what this dish is, but it is fried cheese wontons and fried bananas. It was delicious to eat, but it wasn’t delicious later that evening. The whole fried and cheese thing definelty did not agree with my tummy. But oh well it was good food, and I am grateful that the family made it for my group.

Cuy- Guinea pigs (called cuy, cuye, curí) were originally domesticated for their meat in the Andes. Traditionally, the animal was usually reserved for ceremonial meals by indigenous people in the Andean highlands, but since the 1960s it has become more socially acceptable for consumption by all people. Guinea pig meat is high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol, and is described as being similar to rabbit and the dark meat of chicken.^[2][130] The animal may be served fried (chactado or frito), broiled (asado), or roasted (al horno), and in urban restaurants may also be served in a casserole or a fricassee.

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year, and the animal is so entrenched in the culture that one famous painting of the Last Supper in the main cathedral in Cusco shows Christ and the twelve disciples dining on guinea pig. {I HAVE BEEN THERE}.

CUY!!!!!

Enough Said….

That was just a taste of the food I have eaten in Peru. On a scale of 1-10 I give the Food I ate an 8.5…