5 weeks in Peru

At the beginning of this week Baby Já (which we’ve found out is short for Jayson) took his very first steps, here is a photo of me being incredibly excited about this!

We’ve began our new timetable halfway through this week, which is really cool! We now help out in classes in the aldea and do arts and craft sessions in the other casas in the aldea-which have been so so so much fun.

                        

The boys have all had their hair cut this week; we find it pretty hilarious especially as they all look like mini versions of my dad now!

This weekend a friend of ours, Luisa, invited us to stay at her house to teach us how to cook Peruvian food. Look out for some posts including the full recipes of dishes we made! 

We got to have traditional Peruvian foods, including Dulci. This is a sweet treat that is sugar with small nuts in. It is presented in wooden bark pieces. 

This is called  Tamal we had it at breakfast, it is strange to describe as it doesn’t taste of much and has a rice/couscous texture to it. It’s cooked corn and chicken meat but it is presented in leaves from the banana plant.

A typical Peruvian breakfast involves a drink of leche (milk) often flavoured with cinnamon, pancitos (small loafs of bread which taste amazing!) and palta (Avocado) with sal (salt). It’s a crazy filling breakfast, as is every Peruvian meal.

Here is our lunch, which there are 2 different dishes: Lomo Saltado and Albahaca Verdes. (Recipe posts coming soon!) Lomo Saltado is a beef dish with fried potato slices (chips) and rice, Albahaca Verdes is a pesto style dish. At home we would consider these to be separate meals however in Peru we eat all this together, yes rice, potato and pasta on one plate, watch as my hips grow ladies and gentlemen!! 

The servings shown in this photo was for 4 of us, it was incredibly delicious and also very filling!!

Luisa took us into Catacaos for a few hours which was really fun, heres a photo of us in the mototaxi!