Food follies

It can be challenging, figuring out the foods we encounter here in Gracias. I remember the time Allen and I saw an unlabeled package of meat in the freezer at the store. It looked like it might be liver, which Allen loves (and I do not love), but we weren't certain. We asked the lady at the counter what it was, but since we didn't know the Spanish word for "liver," we still didn't know what it was after she told us. Continuing to try to help us identify the meat, she told us that it was very delicious. At the same time, our good friend Kelbin, who stocks shelves in the store, was making faces and telling us that it was very horrible. Well, that difference of opinion pretty much sealed the identification for us - it must be liver! (And it was.)

Recently, we received a bag full of these fruits, as a gift.Shaped like pairs, but huge and with a citrus-type skin, these turned out to be an oddly shaped type of grapefruit. We found them to be quite delicious.

Kirstin spotted these locally baked bread products at the store yesterday.At first glance, they appear to be growing a particularly virulent form of mold, but in fact they are simply a type of roll we know as samitas. A samita is a basic roll, but with a small amount of sweet dough stuck onto the top before baking. This was the first time we had seen Samitas with the sweet dough colored. It's a bit unnerving to look at, but this hasn't slowed Sweet-Tooth-David down any, in the eating!

Even after all of these years in Honduras, we still find ourselves stumped fairly regularly by the items we find at the fruit market and the grocery store. It keeps life interesting!