Monday, September 17, 2012

Day 5

Breakfast: Tell me truly, what do you see while looking at this motley veggie crew?   Yeah me too... Guacamole!   except of course the coffee... the eggs... the coconut milk, and the light green orb.  The latter of which is a "skoos."  It's a vine grown gord, tastes like a bland squash but has the texture of a potato and if you handle it bare handed your hands will turn red and burn for a couple hours.  It all came out looking more like something you'd get at IHOP in Mexico, but tasting great.  I am starting to wonder why I haven't eaten whole acacados for breakfast my whole life... I mean honestly it's the king of fruits... or veggies... 
Lunch:  I didn't get a picture of lunch because I ate it too fast, it was a light salad with similar ingredients to breakfast but with lemon juice and olive oil vinaigrette.  Very nice, and kept me a little bit hungry for the real treat today... Lamb Burger.  Dinner:  You read correctly.  The Hi Spirits Cafe and Bar served up this puppy, I mean lamb with a few no-no's like the bread, a slab of cheese (the scrapped remnants of which can still be seen) and some french fries.  The latter of which I cared nothing for, it's not like I spent the first several minutes just starring at them or anything.  In the end, the boys ate them.  I enjoyed every bite of the lamb  though was still a bit hungry in the end but a few almonds and some egg-tomato-onion stir fry at home later filled me up.
I almost lost it today when: I had to buy eight huge packages of oreos, and 42 other small packages of various delicious cookies and watch my family eat ice cream while standing next to a food stand the specialized in french fries, which I don't care anything for by the way.  Ah day five, tomorrow I'll have to use two hands to show what day it is using my fingers... a common practice in a house with three small boys, the same boys... who ate my fries... which of course I care nothing for.









Day 4


Coffee, a part of this complete breakfast
Breakfast:  Coffee eggplant tomatos peppers and eggs which would have been revolting except for the fact that it was all fried in rendered pork fat... ok now that does sound revolting.  I prefer calling it "bacon grease" ...is it just me or does that sound less nasty?  The family had pancakes... which should have been really tempting... but wasn't... my breakfast looked and tasted great.  Noticed this morning that my developing miniature double chin was gone... maybe it's on vacation, or maybe, just maybe it has run away and is never coming back... be gone chin!  I choose fit!
worth every moment peeling

Lunch:  Left over beef barley soup and left over triple salted pork and veggies... a pomegranate (so worth the elaborate peeling process), a papaya, some peanuts, and a cup of tea.


Dinner:  Tonight we are going out to our favorite restaurant in town.  The Red Dragon... which is so small that it can only hold four tables, the kitchen is a closet, there's no bathroom, but the food is really good, really fast and of course very affordable as the most expensive dishes are around $1.47   I am hoping to persuade them to bring me a vegetable soup of sorts without any noodles or rice... this is sure to cause confusion.  "Yo khaana bhaat nahalikana malai dinuhos na?" (this food, rice without putting to me give please) just might do the trick...

Red Dragon Special, three meats and veggies
I almost lost it today when... at 1:00 am I got up to do some work and watch a movie and an old habit kicked in.  A vision of a glass full of Oreos (recently bought out by Cadbury in this part of the world, no longer made by Nabisco, not that I'm paying close attention or anything) submerged in milk floated before my very eyes... but instead of making the vision become a reality, I just went to bed instead... as a wise man once said "sleeping man not eat delicious-but-utterly-useless-sandwich-cookies-stuffed-with-white-creamy-happiness."  some wise men are not skilled in brevity...