Wednesday night was one of the best nights yet! For our General Studies class we all had to cook a Tican dish with our host mom or grandma. I made Ensalada de Papas Con Atun with mi tita! (grandma). I had such a great time being in the kitchen. Mi tita and I laughed a lot. I absolutely love her laugh, it brings a smile to my face. The potato salad turned out really well too! Everyone seemed to enjoy it at our group lunch!
I did make one mistake though...The potato salad calls for Culantro and I have never bought it before nor did I know what it looks like. So when I went to the store I found the herbs section and picked up whatever was under the sign that said Culantro. When I took my groceries home mi tita told me that I had not gotten Culantro (I am not sure what I got because I couldn't fully understand what she said)!
Going to the grocery store by myself was quite an experience as well. I was really nervous to go alone and have to find everything when all the signs were in spanish. The last item I had to get was the Tuna and I just couldn't find it. I asked the worker who was on the aisle in my broken spanish "donde es el atun?" To my great surprise it was directly behind me!
I told mi madre y mi tita that I wanted to make an American dish for dinner sometime. Mi madre wants to learn how to cook the American dish from me! I think I am going to make a beef noodle bake. :)
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You should totally develop a pleathora of spanish recipes to cook for when you return to the United States. :) Have fun cooking!
ReplyDeletemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. can't wait to cook some costa rican food with you when you get back. well, i can wait because i don't want to wish away time. but you know what i mean.
ReplyDeleteso interesting to hear your cultural experiences. i wanna hear more about hte language barrier/your spanish improvements. im going to email you later today.
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