Monday, August 14, 2017

Giant Avocados and Baby Mangos

 Welcome back for another exciting week with the Jacksons from Paraguay! We have a real treat for you this week, lots of stuff happened. In this week's entry you'll read about us driving in Paraguay for the first time, seeing the circus, miscalculating cooking temperatures and ingredients and receiving some of our belongings. But that's not all! Sit back and read as the craziness unfolds!

Each day the Embassy has a different menu for lunch but each week is the same. On Tuesdays you can expect the traditional Paraguayan barbecued meat, asado. Everyone says it's the best day to eat there. Scott used to bring a lunch to work but since we were lacking in tupperwares and the food prices are ridiculously cheap (we're talking a heaping amount of food for about $4) he's been buying lunch. Kiersten and Mackenzie were finally able to join Scott for lunch this Tuesday for the much talked about asado and it did not disappoint! They had beef, pork, sausage, chicken breasts and thighs. All were delicious!

Double fisting her banana.

Last week our AC broke so this week the repairman came. Kiersten could pretty well understand what he was telling her but when it came time to respond she struggled to get anything out so she phoned a friend here who speaks Spanish and that solved everything. They came back on Thursday to actually do the job and now our AC works which is great because it got hot by the end of the week.
The temperature for Friday. It was hot!

Thursday was August 10 and that means Mackenzie is 14 months old! We love this little nugget more and more each day! We'll leave you in suspense on her update until the end.
Trying on Mommy's sneakers.

Friday was the big day. Our air shipment arrived! It had been in the country for about two weeks but it took a while to get through customs which is normal. We waited until 2:45 when the movers arrived to gift us with our things. Four boxes, three movers, two happy parents and an enthralled Mackenzie. It was a quick process and about 30 minutes later we had more stuff!
Look! It's our stuff! Some of it.

Mackenzie enjoyed all the "new" stuff.
Before we could really enjoy our things, we borrowed a car from our neighbors and made a trip to Casa Rica by ourselves for the first time. Kiersten was able to direct Scott to the store successfully and we purchased all the food we needed for the week including meat from the meat counter and ice cream from the ice cream counter! In Spanish! We felt very accomplished. And independent. When we got home Scott made dinner and Kiersten made chocolate chip cookies with her very much awaited KitchenAid mixer. More on those to come...
Yummy, right?
Saturday was a very big day indeed. The morning was pretty relaxed. Scott and Kiersten were starting to feel the threats of a cold coming on and Mackenzie joyfully played with her walker toy that arrived in our air shipment. Round and around and around the downstairs she went creating her own circuit. After her nap and lunch we went to our sponsor's so we could go to Cirque du Soleil! Mackenzie stayed with their son and nanny while the parents and older child (almost 4) went to the show. It was very good. They had some crazy unicyclists which was Kiersten's favorite and a woman who balanced like 15 long sticks which was Scott's favorite. It doesn't sound impressive until you see it! We got back much later than anticipated but Mackenzie did great with the nanny which pretty much convinced us we maybe should get one.
Playing with a Montessori toy before we left for the show.

Our second Cirque show! Amaluna.

In the morning we woke up not feeling our best. The colds had set in but we went to church and muddled through the next three hours. The best part was Mackenzie went to nursery! Now before you protest, "But she's too young!" let us explain. Scott was walking with her during Sunday School and they went into the hall because she was getting a little fussy. When they got out there one of the nursery leaders was in the hallway and Mackenzie decided she liked this woman and wanted to go to her. So the woman said to Scott in Spanish that she could take her up to the nursery. Scott told her she was only 14 months and too young but that didn't phase this woman. So up Mackenzie went to be loved and pampered by the nursery. And she did great! Kiersten was told at the end of church that Mackenzie was very well behaved. It might not be a regular thing each week but it was a blessing on this particular Sunday.

Kiersten drove to church and back for the first time and without a hitch. Driving on Sundays are best if learning because there is essentially no traffic. After church we created a delicious meal and FaceTimed with many family members. It was really good to see everyone.
Homemade bread and balsamic chicken with veggies. Very tasty meal.


Mackenzie enjoyed seeing everyone too.
Thanks to Uncle Brenton for capturing this image!

And finally today. The weather turned colder this weekend and this morning was particularly chilly. Nice change of events from last week.
Nice and chilly winter morning.

Kiersten spent all day in the kitchen trying to recreate Cafe Rio sweet pork without a crock pot. After 8 hours in a low oven (and constantly checking it) we had a delicious meal! Also, we interviewed a prospective Nanny. She is the sister of the Relief Society President in our Ward and we liked her a lot. Here's hoping the Embassy approves her for us!
Working in the kitchen all day turned out a very yummy dinner.

And Mackenzie was self entertained all day.
Now on to our recurring segments plus a new one that will be joining this blog on an as needed basis. We'll call it 'Misadventures in Cooking' (or Baking depending on the situation). Let's start from the beginning. This is our oven:
 It's smaller than an American oven. My favorite baking sheets do not fit in this but a 9x13 does so that's been one adjustment.
Another is the fact that the temperature (middle knob) is in Celsius. No biggie. Got a temperature converter app on my phone. Now comes the issue of the other two knobs. We figured out the far right one is the oven timer. Not quite sure how it works but we know if you turn it to the hand it keeps the oven on for as long as you want. Lastly the far left knob. It has all sorts of symbols which we have been trying to decipher since day one here which leads us to our first major cooking misadventure.


Wednesday we planned to make a chicken caprese pasta casserole we'd found on Pinterest.
Image from the pin website.
It's so simple, it claimed. Toss everything in the casserole dish and in less than an hour you have a delicious meal. Firstly it needed to have cooked chicken so earlier in the day Kiersten cooked the chicken and chopped it up which took up about an hour of prep and cooking. When it came time to actually make the meal, we put everything in the pan, put it in the pre-heated oven and set a timer for 40 minutes. Checked on the dish and the pasta was not cooked. Long story short, kept the dish in the oven for a total of an hour and 30 minutes and the pasta never cooked... ok it got gummy. And we were all hungry so ate leftovers and eventually threw this meal away because it was completely inedible. Over cooked chicken, very undercooked pasta and slightly warm. This is how we learned what some of the symbols on the far left knob meant. (Sorry, I was too upset to take a picture of the disaster but it was the definition of a Pinterest fail.)


Next misadventure! Scott really enjoys Kiersten's homemade soft pretzels. Even though she didn't have her mixer she wanted to make some. It mostly worked. Her first mistake was she made the water too hot and killed the yeast so the dough didn't rise and the pretzels were dense but edible. One positive from this misadventure, pretzels are possible to make without a mixer.
Dense but edible. We made more the next day which were better.

One more? Ok! Once the KitchenAid mixer arrived Kiersten badly wanted to make chocolate chip cookies. First step, cream the butter and sugar. What she failed to realize until the first batch of cookies were in the oven was that she almost doubled the amount of butter that was needed. Somehow she didn't notice her conversion app was converting grams to pounds instead of cups! Oh Paula Deen would have been proud with all that butter! 
From Walmart.com. It might have melted during shipping.
It looks right but...


Kiersten was so disappointed with her failed cookies she redeemed herself by making a whole new batch on Sunday night. We hand picked the chocolate chips out of the frozen dough and put it in the new dough. Chocolate chips are a precious commodity out here. Totally worth it! These cookies were much better!
Second attempt. Conclusion: definitely better!

Quirks of Paraguay are up next.
- Platform shoes. Remember how we said Paraguay had reached the 1980's in terms of malls? Well they are still living in the 1970's when it comes to shoe fashion. Oh how they love their platform shoes! We've seen platform sandals, high heels and sneakers. You can see them practically anywhere. I've only seen women wearing them but there might be some guys out there who love to be taller, we just haven't seen them.
Discreetly taken during intermission at the show.

- Spanish. So we don't know very much Spanish but we had been told by friends and family that we'll pick it up quickly here because we'll be immersed in it. It wasn't until we got here that we were told something a little different. While we are immersed in the language it is more difficult for three reasons. One, Paraguayans mumble terribly. Two, they cut off the endings of words as if they couldn't be bothered with it. For example, buenos dias (good morning) and gracias (thank you) become buen dia and gracia. Three, Paraguay is one of the few (or only) South American countries that still has a large indigenous population that speaks the native indian tongue of Guarani. Outside of Asunsion almost everyone speaks Guarani and inside the city people just throw in a word here or there. And since we don't know Spanish we don't know which words they are! Goody.
- Avocados. The avocados we found back home are a JOKE compared to the ones you can buy here. These puppies are HUGE! We'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
It's the size of her head!

Next to an average sized Fuji apple for scale.

Halves the size of Scott's hands.

This is just ONE avocado. Guacamole for days!!
And finally our Mackenzie Update (still haven't thought of a better title so I guess this is it.)
- Curly hair! Yes indeedy friends our little baby girl is getting more hair and it is curly. Love, love, love it!
Little curls!

- Six teeth! Yup, another top tooth cut through this week. She can bite and rip food even better now!
- Standing. She can stand independently now for long stretched (15 seconds being her record). She can take steps by herself but she'd rather be holding our hands, pushing her walker toy or sit down and crawl. Any day now....
A lethal pirate right there to be certain.

- Wow. We've added a new word to her repertoire and it is the word 'wow'. It's a quiet 'wow', sometimes 'whoa', but it is there nonetheless and it's hilariously adorable.
So big!

To sign off this post we wanted to again thank you for your love and support. It's been a fun and exciting three weeks but it has come with it's share of challenges. Driving a car this weekend pretty much convinced us we are going to buy a temp car until ours comes. The freedom it provided! It was glorious. And to reward you all with your continued support we present you with a picture of a baby mango from the Embassy mango tree. (We know you've been curious since the beginning of this post. Thanks for your patience.)
With a fork for scale.

Monday, August 7, 2017

Where the sidewalk ends

Second week completed! And a good one overall. Scott had his first week without his predecessor and he came out the other side unscathed. Kiersten and Mackenzie worked on finding activities to keep them busy while daddy was at work. We all are still adjusting to our new life.

This week we received a cold front and some rain, the first rain we've had since we arrived. Nothing too spectacular but it did cool things down. On Wednesday the girls joined Scott at the Embassy for lunch which was a very fun occasion. Now that we live so close to his work we are hoping we can have lunch with him more frequently, perhaps a few times a month? We'll see if M's nap schedule will allow it.
Swings at the playground before our lunch with Daddy!
Kiersten and Mackenzie visited a new park with our sponsor family. Parque de la Salud (Park of Health). There were trees, a playground and a walking/running/biking loop. Most of the loop was gravel with some paved parts so not ideal for jogging with a stroller but walking was fine. We then ate lunch at a nearby bakery called God's Pan. We aren't sure if it means God's cooking pan or God's bread (pan in Spanish means bread). Either way it was a pretty tasty sandwich.

Friday when Scott got home from work (remember, Fridays are half days) we went for a family walk in search of the church building we are technically supposed to go to. We found it and it's much bigger and nicer looking than we thought it would be. It's a Branch and neither of us are comfortable enough in our Spanish to go there so we'll stick with the Moroni Ward near the Temple. There are 6 sets of missionaries (two sets of senior couples and one set of sisters) and at least two other American Embassy families in the Moroni Ward. A lot of Americans and English speakers but it's still all in Spanish which is hard right now but will be great with time and patience.
Beautiful weather in this forecast!
The Branch house. Nice, right?

On Saturday we decided to walk down to the Temple. We made a stop at the Embassy playground to meet up with our sponsor family and their kids for a little bit then continued down to the temple. The Embassy is about halfway between our home and the Temple so it was the perfect break. We walked around the grounds of the Temple and were pleased to see a few members coming and going from inside. On our way back we decided to eat at the Burger King across from the Temple. We figured we'll have to branch off on our own and speak Spanish eventually so why not now. Scott made a very simple order and after a few minutes of waiting, our food was ready and it was an almost perfect order. A whopper with cheese, fries and bottle of water. The only thing missing was the soda Scott ordered but it worked! And it tasted like America.
The Temple has beautiful features like this fountain.

Walking the grounds with Daddy.

We love the Temple!
Church on Sunday was really good. The first Sunday of the month is Fast Sunday in Paraguay too and we could actually understand a few testimonies. When the Americans speak we understand a lot more. We stayed for all three hours and were able to secure a babysitter for this coming Friday night when we are going to attend the Temple. Mackenzie has taken to the people here very quickly which is wonderful. She happily sat from person to person in Relief Society before realizing how tired she was and needed mama.
Our wee Bonnie lass with her pig-tails.
Monday was another day for the books. We've previously mentioned the little market up the road from us and this week Kiersten made it a goal to actually buy something there by herself. Well today she did it! It wasn't scary and yes the cashier spoke to her but she was prepared with her standard response of, "Lo siento. No hablo espanol." and a smile. And she found brown sugar! We'll see how it tastes. Then after dinner we were getting Mackenzie ready for her bath and her diaper and pants (and onesie) was a complete mess! Let's just say the diaper didn't catch everything. Kiersten had to hog-tie carry her into the bathroom so Scott could help clean her up. Good thing she was about to take a bath anyway. No we didn't take a picture (you're welcome) but it was what being a parent is all about. Cleaning up the little bums we love.
Clean after the storm.

It was definitely a busy week and we know there are things we are leaving out (not on purpose). It's a little hard to believe we've only been here a little over two weeks. In some ways it feels like more but we are adjusting slowly but surely. Before we go this week however, we will leave you with the two continuing segments from last week.

Time for our Quirks of Paraguay segment!
- Grocery shopping. In the produce section when you bag your produce you take it to a counter which weighs it and puts a barcode sticker on it so when you check out the cashier just scans everything. It's kind of nice.
- Trash. Almost every house has a wire basket out front which is where you place your garbage. The trash collectors come a few times a week at night (which is pretty smart if you think about it. Less traffic, not as hot.) They also have a specific Christmas tradition we've been told about where they come to your door expecting cider and a fruitcake. If you don't give them something they don't pick up your trash! What they do with these hundreds of bottles of cider and fruitcakes we don't know but we'll update everyone at Christmas time when we hopefully get to experience the gift of the sanitation worker first hand.
Trash bins on poles.
- Sidewalks. Every house has a unique sidewalk in front of their home. Some are really fancy like marble but most are pretty basic with simple tile or stone. Areas of sidewalks with no houses are generally all the same. While this might sound beautiful it really isn't. The sidewalks are inconsistant or holes in some places. And there generally aren't ramps at the curb. Just a really high curb. So Paraguay in this sense is not the most stroller or wheelchair friendly country. It's been a challenge. But we have found the best path to the Embassy with the least amount of curbs to jump so I call that a win.
No sidewalk.

Elevated sidewalk to get over the driveway!
A fancy, smooth marble sidewalk.
- Man-holes. Here they be triangles. See for yourself.
Triangle!

And lastly the Mackenzie Update (we'll come up with a catchier title in another post).
- She is starting to learn how to use utensils like a fork. She eats better when she is independent and since Kiersten has lots of time on her hands and sweeps the kitchen everyday anyway, the mess isn't so bad.
Baby Pebbles eating with her fork.
- Tantrums. These are pretty mild and usually means she is tired. If she doesn't get her way or is tired and we've missed the signs, she'll throw herself down on the floor into a ball. It's adorable but we are trying to keep ourselves in check so she doesn't learn that it's funny because when she's 6 and still doing this, it won't be funny.
"I don't want to go to bed I'm so tired!"
- Pigtails! Mackenzie's hair is getting longer and to prove it, mommy gave her pigtails and it was just about the cutest! She was pretty wiggly so it took some patience on both sides but it was well worth the trouble.
Piggies! Yes she is eating the comb.
And there you have it. Another week in the life of the South American Jacksons. Thanks for your love and support and we'll see you again next week!

Monday, July 31, 2017

Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

Hello again! Time for another weekly update on our new normal here in Paraguay.

The beginning of the week was a little slow. Scott went to work and Kiersten and Mackenzie stayed at home and tried to figure out what to do with all their time. Scott's predecessor was around for this week only to teach him his new position before heading home. Needless to say it was an information overload week for him and he was kept very busy learning everything his job entails. By the end of the week the girls found a good routine of walking to the Embassy in the morning and doing chores in the afternoon.

On Monday the girls met Scott at the Embassy so the adults could get their badges to gain access to the Embassy. Now we can go in and out and where ever we like on the grounds. Pretty cool. K&M have been to the Embassy almost everyday to take advantage of the fun playground complete with a baby swing.

Swinging!
This is a GIANT mango tree at the Embassy.
That sign says "Beware of falling mangos. Park at your own risk."

On Tuesday there is a mall here that turns their first floor of underground parking into a farmer's market called Agro Shopping. It's kind of a big deal here. We've been told that you can usually find better produce there than at the grocery stores. Better meaning more variety, cheaper prices and fresher. Our sponsor took K&M and it was very impressive. Most vendors had the same items. They came away with a large bunch of bananas, fresh bread and local honey made in the northern region of Paraguay. It tastes delicious! At work, Scott drove a car around the city for the first time. 'Not bad' was his report.

Mackenzie got a free balloon from Agro Shopping.

Trying out our local honey with natural peanut butter. Yum!
By Wednesday we were running out of food so Kiersten was able to get a ride from one of the Embassy moms to Casa Rica (the Wegman's type grocery store). Since it was her second time here, she decided to try to go out on her own and find products by herself. She was pretty successful but getting baking supplies was a little tricky. Now we have flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder. They don't generally carry brown sugar or chocolate chips so they are coming in our new shipment from Amazon. We are really getting our money's worth out of our Prime membership these days!

Thursday the Embassy had planned a bowling activity at the bowling alley in one of the nearby malls. Generally pretty good at bowling Kiersten did not perform well. Scored a 55. Probably her worst game ever. No matter! It was fun to meet more of the Embassy moms with their kids. Mackenzie also had a decent time. She was beginning to catch a cold by this point in the week and wasn't too cheerful about anything. (She's doing much better now.)

Runny nose and holey pjs.
(She put herself in the car seat.)
She really wanted to play with the big kids.

Friday is the day we get fresh water bottles for our dispenser. Paraguay's tap water is not potable although it's fine to bath in and brush teeth but for drinking we have a water cooler. Kiersten was in charge of getting the two regular replacements plus two more since Scott was at work. After some pointing and halted Spanish (and a little bit of Hungarian for good measure) we had four 20L water bottles. Next week should go a little more smoothly.

The Embassy is open half the day on Friday and it was also Scott's first day without his predecessor. He survived the day and made it home by 12:30. Since we don't have a car we kind of sat around most of the afternoon. At 3, Kiersten went to Casa Rica again with our neighbors while Scott stayed home with Mackenzie. Not wanting to continue to ask for rides to the grocery store for the next week, Kiersten overloaded her cart with food in hopes it would be enough for all meals the following week.

The weekend was a fun affair. In the morning on Saturday we all took a walk around our neighborhood. Scott only really walks to work and back so he was curious to explore. Our neighbors told us there is a small grocery store a few blocks from our house so we set out in search of that. We found it! And it has everything we could need. The prices were a little more expensive than Casa Rica but still cheaper than American standards. It's nice to know there is a place so close to get things by ourselves now. We continued around the big square we were making home and discovered an outdoor food venue that was reminiscent of Truck-a-roo in DC where lots of food trucks park and live bands play. The food vendors looked more permanent than trucks but it still looked really fun. Maybe we can get a babysitter one night and check it out.
Behind this awesome mural is the quasi Truck-a-roo. 

Mackenzie took a very long afternoon nap and S&K stumbled on a US Women's Soccer game on ESPN. It was the inaugural Tournament of Nations taking place in California and Washington. US Women's soccer doesn't get a lot of screen time or tournaments. The European leagues have more opportunities to play on non World Cup and Olympics years. This year the European Women's leagues are playing in the Euro Cup. So the Tournament of Nations was created by the USA and are hosting Japan, Brazil and Australia. We watched them play Australia on Saturday (lost 0-1) and then on Sunday against Brazil (amazing win in the last few minutes, 4-3). Since women's soccer is almost non-exsistant in Paraguay Kiersten was needing a soccer pick-me-up and it didn't disappoint.

After the game was over on Saturday our sponsor picked us up for the back to school party hosted by the Marine's here in Paraguay. It was crowded with more Embassy families and lots of kids. This is a very family friendly post. S&K were all able to meet and chat with lots of people and Mackenzie took turns leading one of the parents around the grass and the pool areas in her desperate efforts to walk.

Sitting in the bounce house.
So big!

Sunday we stuck it out for all three hours of church. It was a hard to feel involved with any lesson since we didn't understand but everyone was so friendly. Lots of attention given to Mackenzie. The ward is also now aware of Kiersten's ability to play the piano so we expect them to have her doing something musical soon. In fact she was invited to help the Relief Society sisters with their choir practice that afternoon. It's nice to be getting involved.

Walking the stage during Sunday School.
The chapel is right next to the beautiful Asuncion Temple.

We had been invited to a baby's birthday party that afternoon but Mackenzie took another long nap and prevented our attendance. Oh well. It enabled us to catch up on sleep and FaceTime with Grandparents back home. All is well on the home front.

It's been a fun and exhausting week. There are a few little quirks about Paraguay we wanted to highlight that we've noticed this week. We hope this is a recurring feature of our weekly blog updates.
- Saran wrap. Oh man do they love it. They wrap almost everything at the grocery store in it. And Kiersten has ALWAYS hated saran wrap. It only sticks to itself and never gets unstuck. This wouldn't be a problem if we had a few kitchen essentials like Ziploc bags and tupperware but we don't. So we've had to get a little creative with storing our food after opening the packages. Ziplocs are also making their way to us in our Amazon shipment.
- Traffic. It doesn't always make sense here. Some intersections have lights and some don't. Some people obey STOP signs but most do not (which is a little scary as a pedestrian). Most of the intersections don't allow left turns which is very frustrating. There are lots of one way streets which are clearly marked on the street signs but we have seen a few people driving the wrong way down a one way. The roads that have two lanes of traffic headed in the same direction sometimes turns into three lanes without any visible indication or down to one. It's totally arbitrary to the current driving situation. And people have no problems completely blocking intersections. Honking is not an uncommon sound. If they don't like what you're doing or want you to do something else (like turn right at a red light when you want to go straight) they will emit a chorus of scathing honks. I guess it's nice we don't have our car yet.
- Street sellers. At the few major intersections you will see people selling a number of different items; toys, bread, bananas, produce, phone chargers, window washing, etc. It's totally normal.
-Weather. The weather is winter as we mentioned last week. This means the humidity is low, generally in the 30%-50% range but the temperature is still high in the 80's. Mornings here are very pleasant and then it gets hotter during the afternoon. Shade is cool... for now. We aren't sure when the humidity will pick up so we are trying to enjoy the nice weather while it lasts.

And last but not least, an update on all things Mackenzie!
- She has taken some great progress towards walking. She got really good at walking by holding onto our fingers with both hands before we moved. She is shaky with one hand and stumbles with no hands. The few times she has taken steps has been the short distance between mom and dad and she falls into our arms with her arms above her head. It's pretty adorable.
- Mackenzie caught her first foreign cold this week. She had a slight fever and cough and then a runny nose for days. She is doing much better now. Both parents seemed to have avoided the illness this time around.
A little dazed from her cold.
- She is really becoming a stair master. Crawling up and down them all day long. Now she can sort of carry something up the stairs by placing it on the step above her while she goes up. This morning she tried to bring something down and it was a little nerve wracking. She kept looking behind her to see where to drop it and almost got her leg stuck under the banister! We made it safely down in the end.
Lovin' these stairs.
- Her appetite is back. Since we arrived and with her cold she hasn't wanted to eat much and we were afraid it was because of the new Paraguayan foods. Luckily she got over that this weekend and now our little eater is back!
Eating a pear food pouch, peas and Goldfish.
- Her vocabulary is picking up. Kiersten is convinced she is saying somethings in Spanish. We know she understands some Spanish words like agua and hola. She can now definitely say 'buh-bye' and wave to you when we go. She knows 'mama' and we are working really hard on 'dada'. Sometimes she gets it and other times its 'gabgab' or 'pahpah' or 'mahme'.
- She laughs more freely. Whether we are playing with her or not she will sometimes giggle at something. She occasionally puts her hands to her mouth when she laughs which is ultra cute.
Yes! Got a picture of it!
- Mackenzie officially has 5 teeth. Three on top, two on bottom. She can bite and rip food now but we are still working on the chew-don't-swallow-and-choke-on-your-food aspect of eating. We hope she gets it soon.

If we have forgotten anything, we apologize. It's been a busy week learning our new area and trying to understand Spanish. Hopefully we'll have official lessons soon. And Happy Birthday to Harry Potter! In honor of him we had a somewhat traditional chicken pot pie for dinner. All the ingredients were there but I realized too late that I didn't have a pie pan so I improvised and made a chicken pot pie calzone. It ended up tasting very delicious. Hooray for cooking adventures in foreign lands!
Might not look pretty but it was surprisingly tasty!

Thanks for reading. We'll be back next week!