A Huge Storm

Last night as I was getting ready to go to bed, a heavy downpour arrived and covered the region in a thick fog. Being that the only ventilation in my room is created by a ceiling hatch, I stopped what I was doing and closed the hatch before an unmanageable amount of rain could pour inside. As I turned around after closing the hatch, I spotted something brown and shiny scurrying around the stairs. God damn it! Another roach is spreading it's filth.

I quickly dashed up into the living room and grabbed the bottle of water/soap that we use to stun roaches. As I raced back downstairs, the roach was still scurrying around, so I took the bottle and sprayed it. It seemed to effect it a little bit, but the roach then started running around like mad. As this was happening, all of the lights suddenly went out, and I was afraid that my prey would escape into the darkness. Fortunately, it was only a power surge and the lights were restored about ten seconds later, though it seemed like an eternity for me, and likely the roach as well.

Independence Day

Tomorrow is one of the most celebrated days in all of Guatemala, Independence Day. Yes on September 15, 1821 Guatemala threw off the colonial shackles from Spain, and declared itself a sovereign nation. It hasn't been a completely flawless 191 years, but it could be worse. However there is one thing that has disappointed me about this holiday, and it's a rather odd thing to mention.

Not that Independence Day!

Tacos and Sun

Once again, we had our homemade tacos and homemade sour cream. As I kind of promised in a non-committal way, here's a low quality picture of my taco. The only thing I have on it is the beef/rice/jalapeno mix, sour cream, cheese, and lettuce.

Tacos

Tonight for supper we had beef tacos. Rather than making them from ground beef like we usually do, today we used the same kind of roast beef as I wrote about last week with the wine. Once again we put it in a slow cooker with rice and allowed it to cook all day. After a few hours, we added some fajita spice and jalapeno peppers to the meat, and allowed the meat to absorb the awesome flavors. All together, I would say that the meat probably cooked for almost if not ten hours.

Now one thing I love to have on my taco is sour cream. I think it's the perfect dressing to temper the spiciness of the meat. However, like many things here, sour cream can be difficult to acquire. Yet despite seeming out of luck, it turns out that making sour cream is actually extremely easy. All it is is heavy cream, lime juice, and vinegar; items which are all easily found in town.With that, we made our own sour cream, and it was actually pretty good. Not as thick as store bough, the flavor was relatively the same. Altogether, the meal was pretty good, perhaps there will be picks when we have more tomorrow?

Robalo

For the past two days, we've been having a huge fillet of robalo fish (also known as snook) for supper. The robalo fish is native to the waters from the south eastern US, all the way down to Brazil, so it's eaten fairly commonly. We were told that robalo was one the best tasting fish there is, so we naturally bought some. After sitting in our freezer for a few weeks, we finally took it up and cooked it up yesterday.

What a cute little guy! 

What came afterwards, was chunks of white fish meat which were battered and fried on the stove. The taste was rather... disappointing. It really didn't taste like anything at all, it was just generic white fish. In fact, I would say that a "mystery fish stick" has more flavour than this thing. It's really sad actually.

Small Post

Not much happened today, and I'm fairly tired, so I'll just post a couple pictures of a boat I saw today. Maybe I'll throw in a puppy pic or two...

 Ah, the majestic sailboat. Is there any greater mode of transport?

Want Some?

One of the easiest things to make in this great heat, are hamburgers. They don't take long to make, you don't need to use the oven, and they taste good (I love them). So yesterday, we went to the general store to buy some ground beef to make burgers. We arrived at the store, and began looking through the meat freezer for some ground beef. We found some ground pork, but no beef, so I was prepared to leave in disappointment. However, the owner of the store came by, and showed us some beef cubes, we have a meat grinder, so this could work.