Cooking Dinner for my Family

Another great day in San Juan! This is definitely my favorite part of Guatemala we have been to and each day has been full of work and fun! We started the morning with another amazing fruit breakfast where we met the rest of our group for a three hour 5 and a half mile hike! We got to see incredible views of the lake and all of the small cities surrounding it.

Incredible view of lake Atitlan

All of us

Las mujeres

Los hombres

Roomies

A plant people use as soap

We walked through many rows of corn

The city of San Juan from above

There were many plants they use as natural dyes for weaving

My first berry in Guatemala (if I get sick this is why...)

Another incredible view of the lake

We are cute

A cow in the middle of the path...typical.

After our hike which was mostly downhill and not to difficult Raylin and I returned to my house and were taught how to make tortillas! It is a lot harder than it looks and I definitely struggled... You take a ball of tortilla dough and pat back and forth on your hand. But the hard part is, is that the dough sticks to your hand and then it breaks really easily into holes. They make it seem so easy and I felt incompetent. 

The two on the right, small and oddly shaped are mine

Raylin making tortillas!

Making tortillas before the burn

My failed tortillas

 In the afternoon we worked more on finalizing our stove charla for tomorrow. Nicole and I prepared the wood for the stove tomorrow along with made a poster and a flyer for tomorrow. We found our niche: graphic design and poster making. After work I returned home early so that I could go with my mom to buy ingredients for the dinner I planned to cook!

The Menu:

Main course: chicken bruschetta- Grilled chicken seasoned with pepper salt lemon and garlic and topped with cooked onions, tomato, and basil.

Side dish: Tomato and avocado salad seasoned with lime juice and salt and pepper.
A piece of garlic bread- bread with olive oil and topped with tomatoes

Dessert: S'mores!

Introducing...Chef Jordyn

Step 1: Marinated Chicken

Step 2: Cook chicken with the Garlic and olive oil

Step 3: Cooked Chicken and Garlic

Step 4: Cook the onions

Step 5: Add the Tomatoes and Basil

Step 6: Put the Tomatoe and Onions on top of the Chicken

Explaining how I did everything

Cutting up the Avocado for the salad

The cutest

The best mom!

FINISHED

Looks bad but TASTES DELICIOUS

Making Smores out of the wood stove for dessert!

Marsh on Fire

Eating our Smores!

What a successful dinner! The smores were also a big hit and the whole family had lots of fun cooking them. I told my family this was not a typical American dish it was a typical Silverstein family dish. I would say this is pretty accurate. Tomorrow it is Raylins turn to cook dinner and she is cooking some type of food from China! In the morning we have our stove Charla which i am excited for! Good night for now