Cooking class

January 16th, Sucre Bolivia

This morning I woke up early, determined to make the boys breakfast (instead of Pollo Loco again) so I went to the supermarket (was too scared to try the main market) to buy bread and eggs. Unfortunately the bacon was just fat with a steak of meat, but it added the necessary taste to our egg butties. 

At the beginning of our travels, I would dress normally, like I would in London. Very soon I began putting on a little less make up but still faithfully straightening my hair. Soon, I stopped the makeup and just used eyeliner. Now I'm at the stage where I'm entirely makeup less, don't bother to straighten my hair, and am in glasses, I don't even wear my lenses! I think this makes me a proper traveler. 

After Spanish class, we headed over to a local family's house for our cooking lesson. This family also hosts a lot of home stays which is what Bernie and I originally planned for the second week in Sucre. It's really useful because the families only speak Spanish so you have to practice a lot and they cook so well! 

We started of peeling a million potatoes - they have a huge variety of potatoes and these had a pink skin with lots of bumps and holes, not the easiest to peel. While some of us peeled potatoes, the others cut green peppers, onions, tomatoes, garlic and chillies which she cooked to form a sort of gravy. Once the potatoes were boiled, we mashed them up, and then created little craters with them in our palms to fill with either cheese or a boiled egg. So a stuffed potato, but done differently!

This was then deep fried with the gravy on top. At first I wasn't looking forward to this as it doesn't sound very appealing, but it was YUM. She also made the gravy very spicy so there were a lot of different tastes. 

We spoke a lot of Spanish and I could immediately see they benefit of practising everything we learnt. Unfortunately, I remember all of the new words, except the name of this lovely traditional dish! Our problem is the second we leave class, we switch back to English with little to no Spanish conversations for the rest of the day. We really need to practise more!

Yummmm