Remember the Sabbath and make Bolivian food

Guess what? My lunch today was probably one of the best meals ever and you probably should be a little jealous. Wednesday is the scheduled sabbath day meaning we take it off from going to orphanages. I had mixed feelings about whether or not I needed a sabbath since I only have 2 weeks left but I'm glad I did take the break because these past few days have been super emotional with one of my roommates returning to the states. Anywho you probably want to know about this lunch I'm bragging about. Today I got to hang out with awesome MK's and make Bolivian food. We made 3 things and they all rock. I'm going to do this mostly with pictures so ready set go

Making Zonzo which is baked mashed yucca and cheese. yum!

Empanada de queso before it went in the pan. you can tell a gringa folded it :)

Suzanne's empanada

My empanada

frying the empanadas

and this was my lunch. Empanada de queso, zonzo and a bowl of soup!

and we ended with cuñapé frita. basically fried cheese bread made from yucca instead of flour.

So this story ends with everyone being really full and really really happy about it, at least I was. plus we ate chicken enchiladas tonight for dinner with spice cake for dessert. so good! this has been the best food day ever and deserved a blog post about it! also another thing that was happy today... alberto the guard/groundskeeper was wearing woman's ugg boots and so um a creeper picture was in order. shhh this was taken with pure stealth by Emily. sorry it's sideways. i flipped it on iphoto but apparently blogspot doesn't believe me.