To the surprise of many people, Colombians do not eat spicy food. Colombians like very mild food. And Luis´family doesn´t even keep pepper on the table.
I´ve been amazed at how fresh all of the food is here.
At a festival, a guy prepared limeade from fresh limes and a machine that crushed the long pieces of sugar cane to squeeze out the cane juice.
This photo to the left isn´t just a fruit stand. It´s also a sit-down restaurant for fresh fruit. They produce amazing plates of freshly cut fruit with fresh cream and ice cream. It was so delicious.
I´ve enjoy many tropical fruits, many of which I can´t even remember the names. One piece of fruit looked like something that would come out of the stomach of a character in Aliens. Inside, it was full of gel-covered pits. You eat the pits and all. It was absolutely delicious.}
One day we stopped at a roadside restaurant for chocolo. I was full but I told Luis´family I always have room for chocolate. I was mistaken. Chocolo is a crispy pancake. The cook put whole grains of corn into a machine, which mashed it to a thick mixture. He then added a little bit of sugar and formed pancakes, which he cooked on pots over coals. They were absolutely delicious.
The strangest thing I´ve eaten so far would be Gelatina de Pata, which is a taffy apparently made from the cartilage in parts of a cow´s leg. (I think mostly the knee.)
Luis is holding a guanabana he found on a tree at his brother´s property.
Chorizo sausages are delicious.
Some empanadas, with cheese and arepa (the corn pancake), some beans and hot chocolate made from melted chocolate, milk and sugar.
Chicarron, on the right side, is fried pork.
on the left is fresh aguacate (avocado), some fried plantains, rice and a arepita (a small crispy corn pancake). See the banana on top right. Colombians eat a banana with many meals (during the meal, not after.)
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I love the fact that Colombia is a banana-centric society (maybe that is partly what accounts for its high Happiness Quotient). I think the Colombians could sure teach some important food lessons to the Junk Food Eating Nation of America. Fresh food is the key to happiness! So what is your favorite thing to eat while in Colombia?
We just went to another restaurant today that serves fresh tropical fruit platters with delicious whipped cream and ice cream. It´s not so healthy with all that cream, but it´s delicious.
But my favourite (hey, i´m a canadian resident so i have to add the ´u´) isn´t popular in medellin. I absolutely love fried yucca (casava). But it´s easier to get that in queens that in medellin. it turns out that is popular on the coast. so i´ll eat that in cartagena. I also love chicarron -- fried pork, including the skin. it is so delicious. i guess i´m into fried food.
this is rich answering in luis´ account.
hols, luis y richard, me alegra saber que Richard disfrutó la comida acá en Colombia, realmente es una tierra con mucha variedad de alimentos, cada región se carateriza por sus vegetales y/o frutos.....todo es delicioso y elvalor agregado es las ganas que le ponen a la cocción y la atención al cliente....mary yusti.
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