Wood Fire Food

Pupusas. Please, if you're ever in Honduras (or I would imagine most countries in Latin America) eat some pupusas. From what I could tell, this was some sort of thick, cornmeal based masterpiece filled with beans and heaven in the form of yogurt-y sour cream. We ate them everyday at a little street vendor near where we stayed, and they were great every time, and with a little cabbage salad and hot sauce, (peppers, onions, water, and vinegar fermenting in what looked to be an old gasoline can) even better.

Cerdo y Yucca. Pork and Yucca- so limey and perfect you almost don't know what you were eating. Watching Marianne cook this pork I was dumbfounded. All she did was take it out of a bin and thrown it on the griddle with just a bit of oil. All of the flavor came straight from the marinade. The Yucca, which if you've never had it, is kind of a starchy, rooty vegetable, but with more of a chewy texture than a potato, was great as well. Cooked perfectly tender all the way through with a little crisp on the outside. Served with spicy pico de gallo.

Anything and Fresh Avocados. What could one possibly put with avocados that you couldn't make work to at least some degree? Salads, tacos, sausage, tortillas, we ate them all with avocados in Honduras, but I think my favorite was just fresh flour tortillas with lime and avocado. Just the color alone of the flesh of these beautiful fruits was enough to make me fall in love, but the taste- well that was something completely different than what we get at HEB here in Texas.

Forever spoiled by fresh fruits and pupusas