Nicaragua is starting to make me pretty fricking domesticated. Since we are a solid forty-five minutes from a grocery store, and a major river crossing away from two good restaurants, meals don't just appear before us like the good ole days of takeout from the vast array of eateries in Kailua. We (I) make all of our meals. Ian pulls out the occasional breakfast for dinner and he's always elbow deep in ass-loads of dishes. We have a term for an exceptionally big kitchen mess. We call it "getting Jenn Marred." I used to live with a good friend of mine named Jenn Marr. (As if half of you reading this right now, don't know who the hell Jenn Marr is ....) Anyways, she is an insane cook but every time she makes food, she uses every damn dish in her kitchen. Of course, it's customary for the non-cooker to be dish bitch. Being Jenn Marr's dish bitch sucks. So, when Ian gets stuck with a heavy dish load post-dinner, I have to apologize for Jenn Marring him. So, yeah. Anyways ...
Just this week I've made, six loaves of bread, two batches of granola, two batches of peanut-butter, and yogurt for effffff sake. Yogurt. That's right. I made homemade Greek yogurt. When I want something, I want something. And I've wanted Greek yogurt for a long time. When I tried my batch, a tear came to my eye.... I had done it. I had made thick, creamy, Greek-god-like goodness. But of course, all these fun afternoon cooking escapades incidentally lead to ass-loads of more dishes. This piled on top of breakfast dishes, on top of lunch dishes, iced coffee cups, hot coffee cups, water cups and the dinner dishes, makes for a fun-filled day of washing dishes. So, anyways, things take time down here. A majority of my days I wonder, "what did I do today?" I think the answer is, washed dishes.....But then I remember, I'm a stay at home mom living in the jungle of Nicaragua. What the hell else am i going to do? Learn how to make yogurt....and wash dishes...obviously.
Oh yeah, and drag my ass back into the ocean. I finally surfed again and this old hag can still stand up. Bonus. And now, some photos ...
Homemade Greek yogurt. I rule.
Everything the light touches is yours ....
Lots of sewing projects happening too...
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No fancy dishwashers in the jungle? Sounds pretty fantastic to me...I'll take doing dishes and hanging with my kid any day over working for the man....damn the man...
ReplyDeleteLove reading your blog Melissa; the Nica-life sounds incredible! It is a huge challenge for me to learn how to cook with my new tropical ingredients; and lack of some good ole' American grocery store staple items.
ReplyDeleteAnd, congrats on getting back on your board! Ya mama!