Sunday May 16, 2010
The week meal blog continues…

Thursday:
Breakfast: this morning I was given a more “traditional breakfast—refried beans, scrambled eggs with onion mixed in, a spicy sausage (same from last night) and 4 tortillas. I also had a loaf of that sugar bread and a cup of coffee.
Lunch: Funny how I mentioned 84 East yesterday because today at lunch we went Italian (and this time not spicy spaghetti). We had lasagna today and it was actually pretty delicious. We had had this once before a couple months ago and I was impressed with it then too.
Dinner: So I had the usual for dinner tonight—beans, scrambled eggs with onion mixed in, montequilla and tortillas. No meat or avocado tonight. Three nights in a row… but that’s okay, I was hungry and I am used to it by now.

Friday:
Breakfast: This morning I had baleadas (from Monday morning) with eggs again—three of them with some Don Julio’s (the extremely good hot sauce down here).
Lunch: I really don’t know what the things are called that we had for lunch today, but they aren’t my favorite. They are tortillas that are folded in half and are stuffed with shredded chicken (and the last two times we’ve had them, including today, I’ve bitten really hard into a bone that wasn’t taken out of the shredded chicken) refried beans and I think a little montequilla. They are then covered with a mock marinara sauce and Parmesan cheese. The ones today didn’t sit well with my stomach either. But you eat what you get and I was hungry.
Dinner: Yup, you guessed it, beans, eggs and tortillas tonight. Not much else to say about that.

Saturday:
Breakfast: I slept through it and by the time I had showered it was 11 and told them I could wait until lunch for food.
Lunch: I had spaghetti today with an unpleasant surprise—a large fly in the middle. I don’t know if it was the fly or something I ate the previous day (I am thinking lunch) but at that point my stomach went off the rest of the day.
Dinner: Since Rachel had beaten me in our NCAA Basketball brackets and I had to buy her dinner she said she would “make up” for it by making me dinner sometime. So this was the night. She made some garlic and lemon pepper baked chicken (boneless, thank goodness) with white rice and green beans and broccoli. It was delicious and was a nice change of pace from beans, eggs, and tortilla.

Sunday:
Breakfast: I was up for breakfast this morning and had a glass of orange juice and some vanilla wafer type cookies. Very delicious.
Lunch: I had rice, potatoes and chicken. Now the thing about the chicken down here, and I am not sure if I have mentioned it before, you never know what you are going to get—dark meat, white meat, both. There isn’t exactly a specific cut like there is in the US (breast, leg, wing, etc.). Well, the chicken I had today, at least part of, had to be from the “upper body” portion of the chicken because there was definitely a bone sticking out of it that looked like a neck. Pair this with my stomach still being a little off today and it wasn’t a good combo. I ate as much as I could because I hate leaving food on my plate down here, but it has not been my weekend for food service at the comedor. First a big fly and now neck-chicken. Oh well, that’s Honduras, maybe better luck next weekend!
Dinner: And again, tortillas, eggs and beans. But I got a slice of salami and half an avocado this time around.