So needless to say today has been another wonderful day aquí en México! I did not end up going to find my way to campus today, because mi mamá told me that since tomorrow was my first day of orientation she was going to go with me to make sure I got there okay and because they would not let me in the campus without her, since I am not a student there yet. Tomorrow will be an early morning for me, because we have to leave by 8:30 in order to catch the bus that goes to the campus. Mi mamá tells me that the campus is very close by and is only about 25 minutes walking distance and about 10 minutes on the bus. Orientation will be an all day thing both tomorrow and on Thursday so I’m sure I will be very ready to sleep tomorrow night.
So you may be wondering, if I didn’t go out today what did I do? Well I had my first lesson in cooking Mexican cuisine….and that was no small feat let me tell u! Cooking lunch with mi mamá took probably 3 hours! Whoa!! As good as this woman cooks and as much as she cooks everyday you would think that she would enjoy it…but no…she says she does NOT like to cook, she says it is her job! Come to find out my father and her have a lot in common…they both LIKE to clean! I asked her what her favorite things to do during the day were…and she said she actually likes to clean and that her other favorite thing to do is garden…which is quite obvious from the abundance of beautiful plants she has around here.
Since mi mamá is retired and stays at home most every day cooking and cleaning and since she does not mind helping me learn to cook Mexican food…dun dun dun! I have decided to start a blog solely devoted to recipes that I learn here from mi mamá. Hopefully if you are as interested in learning to cook other types of food as I am, you will find this other blog very useful! Today I learned how to cook many things. For lunch we had traditional Mexican rice, and “puerco”, otherwise known as “cerdo” or even sometimes as “marrano”, which for us in English designates part of the back of the pig. The “puerco” was cooked with a “jitomate salsa”, which is simply a tomato based sauce that I will also include the recipe of in my food blog. Also we had broccoli soup and fresh vegetables as always! The fresh vegetables today were broccoli, carrots, lettuce (that I thought was somewhat different because she soaked the lettuce in water with a tiny bit of clorox in order to kill any bacteria or parasites), and something I had never had before, cacto! The cacto, or cactus leaves, were very good and reminded me of green beans! If you are interested in any of the Mexican recipes I learn, including these that I had for lunch today, check out my food blog at http://heatherkeckfood.blogspot.com .
I also learned some more about our “huerto”, or in English “orchard”, as mi mamá calls it. If you go straight through the patio there is another door at the end that leads into our “huerto”. Mi mamá told me more about it today…turns out we have not only a mandarín tree, which is a fruit almost identical to an orange, but we also have a tree that produces “aguacate”, or avocado, a tree that produces “granadas”, or pomegranates, and a tree that produces a fruit I had never seen nor heard of in the U.S. called “zapote negro”. WOW! This fruit is awesome! I took a picture of one that she gave to me to eat before lunch that I will post on this blog. It is dark green on the outside and is round in shape. But on the inside…it is black, which is why it is called zapote negro. The inside looks just like chocolate and is very creamy in texture. It has three large seeds on the inside that you take out and then you can eat the rest of the flesh. It has a very subtle flavor…one that I can’t compare to any fruit that I’ve had in the U.S….the closest might be the large orange colored persimmons that my uncle Bobby grows. These zapotes are similar in both texture and in flavor to the persimmon…at least I think so, also they could be compared to a very thick yogurt in texture.
Today was another beautiful day here in Querétaro, but it was a little cooler than the past couple of days…but not too cool….just perfect. Well I am going to shower and go to bed, because tomorrow will be another eventful and tiring day I am sure! ¡Buenas noches y hasta mañana! And don’t forget to check out my food blog at http://heatherkeckfood.blogspot.com .
Since mi mamá is retired and stays at home most every day cooking and cleaning and since she does not mind helping me learn to cook Mexican food…dun dun dun! I have decided to start a blog solely devoted to recipes that I learn here from mi mamá. Hopefully if you are as interested in learning to cook other types of food as I am, you will find this other blog very useful! Today I learned how to cook many things. For lunch we had traditional Mexican rice, and “puerco”, otherwise known as “cerdo” or even sometimes as “marrano”, which for us in English designates part of the back of the pig. The “puerco” was cooked with a “jitomate salsa”, which is simply a tomato based sauce that I will also include the recipe of in my food blog. Also we had broccoli soup and fresh vegetables as always! The fresh vegetables today were broccoli, carrots, lettuce (that I thought was somewhat different because she soaked the lettuce in water with a tiny bit of clorox in order to kill any bacteria or parasites), and something I had never had before, cacto! The cacto, or cactus leaves, were very good and reminded me of green beans! If you are interested in any of the Mexican recipes I learn, including these that I had for lunch today, check out my food blog at http://heatherkeckfood.blogspot.com .
I also learned some more about our “huerto”, or in English “orchard”, as mi mamá calls it. If you go straight through the patio there is another door at the end that leads into our “huerto”. Mi mamá told me more about it today…turns out we have not only a mandarín tree, which is a fruit almost identical to an orange, but we also have a tree that produces “aguacate”, or avocado, a tree that produces “granadas”, or pomegranates, and a tree that produces a fruit I had never seen nor heard of in the U.S. called “zapote negro”. WOW! This fruit is awesome! I took a picture of one that she gave to me to eat before lunch that I will post on this blog. It is dark green on the outside and is round in shape. But on the inside…it is black, which is why it is called zapote negro. The inside looks just like chocolate and is very creamy in texture. It has three large seeds on the inside that you take out and then you can eat the rest of the flesh. It has a very subtle flavor…one that I can’t compare to any fruit that I’ve had in the U.S….the closest might be the large orange colored persimmons that my uncle Bobby grows. These zapotes are similar in both texture and in flavor to the persimmon…at least I think so, also they could be compared to a very thick yogurt in texture.
Today was another beautiful day here in Querétaro, but it was a little cooler than the past couple of days…but not too cool….just perfect. Well I am going to shower and go to bed, because tomorrow will be another eventful and tiring day I am sure! ¡Buenas noches y hasta mañana! And don’t forget to check out my food blog at http://heatherkeckfood.blogspot.com .
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