Treasure Hunt and Cooking class

07/03/2011

Treasure hunt!! Today's word!! It was the activity organized for the kids to get to know Santa Elena.

They had to find 10 places in the city center of Santa Elena and took photos to prove they had been there. Among the photo were famous places of the town like the police station, the Donde Henry's coffee, the Serpentarium... but they also had to take a picture of the Monteverde's symbol which is a morpho: a blue butterfly.

After what we went to the school for a cooking class. They or I should say "we" learnt how to make "Arroz con pollo" which is Chicken and rice... well it's not only rice and a chicken breast....it took us 1 hour to prepare and we were 10 to work....

What you need:

I don't know if I need to mention the two first ingredients but let's do it for the blonds who read the blog^^

• Rice and Chicken!!
• Corn
• Tomatoes
• Black beans
• Green beans
• Carrots
• Plantains
• Sweet chili
• Aromates
• Celery
• Lettuce
• Red cabbage
• Cornmeal
• Salt
• Water

1. First of all you need to cook the rice
2. Then you put some water to boil with some aromates and the celery. When the water boils, put the chicken in it to be cooked.
   
   
   
3. Mix the cornmeal with some water and a bit of salt to have a compact mass
4. Make some some balls with the mass and flatten it to have some thin pancakes.
5. On a flat pan, cook the "tortillas" (=thin pancakes)
6. Cook the black beans
7. Cut everything left in small pieces and grate the carrots
   
8. For the salad, mix together: lettuce, tomatoes, half of the carrots and red cabbage
9. Once the chicken is cooked, you need to fray it...yes yes..to fray it!
10. Put a big frying pan on the fire and put in it the corn, the green beans, part of the carrots, the chicken
11. Mix everything together during approximately 10minutes
12. Then add the rice and cook everything together for another 10 to 15 minutes.
    
    
    
    
    
13. During this time, put some oil to fry.
14. Cut the plantains in neat but long slices: cut in the direction of the length and not width.
15. When the oil is boiling, put the plantains slices to fry

   16. To have a typical plate take some of the rice and chicken, put some salads, some black beans, 1 tortilla and some plantains slices.

   17. Don't forget the most important: ENJOY!

We all enjoyed immensely our food. Muni and I were eating with the 3 teachers and talking about the Tortillas, we came to speak about the French crepes...Well as it was to foreseen...I'm going to make some on wednesday's night for all of us.

On the afternoon, the kids wen to their classes and Muni and Arelys showed me all the administrative tasks I will have to do. It's not complicated as most of it I've already done during my placement in AIM but it takes a lot of time to check it twice ...or more!

I went to go some shopping: eggs, flour, milk...well everything to make crepes!!

I have a problem with my fridge...it's a freezer...or at least it keeps thing so cold that it freezes it!

It was quite funny at first but the problem was that I had to eat everything very quickly. So today' smoothie was Mangoes + Bananas + Orange juice....YUMMY

And then, time to go to bed.... it's already 9:00pm!!! jajajaj