Ecuadorian Meal

Yesterday morning the interns cooked a traditional Ecuadorian meal with two Ecuadorian employees from HCJB. We started cooking at 9 and had lunch ready at 12:30. It took a while, but we did end up with over twice as much food as we could eat. So we now have an Ecuadorian meal saved for later. The ladies that taught us how to cook different dishes were so funny and patient. We had pork, tostado, fruit (some I knew, others I didn't), a tomato and onion based salad, fried plantains, fried potato and cheese cakes (they have a name, I just don't remember what it is), one or two other items, and tree tomato juice. DELICIOUS!!

Frying plantains! Once the plantains were done I would put them in another pan. Not haphazzardly of course, neat and organized, in nice straight lines. (as any good accountant would) One of the ladies noticed, started laughing, and showed the other lady. Everyone then looked over and started laughing. Then I told them, "Hey, they were cooking with an accountant. What did they expect?" :) That was just one of many laughs for the morning.

All of the food. We are missing a dish or two at this point...but it still didn't fit in one picture!