Saturday, December 29, 2007

Not much cooking happening here

I haven´t been cooking the last few days, yesterday, we went to the fish restuarant just south of La Ermita and bought lunch. Actually, we got more than lunch, La Muchacha requested a shrimp cocktail, Husband got one too (they are pretty big and the price is reasonable at $50 for the medium and $30 for the small), we got about a half pint of ceviche mixto for later (it's $100 a kilo, the container cost $33.00 it was 330 grams) and my lunch was camarones empanizados, breaded shrimp, they were just okay, a little too brown for me. Our friends who live near La Ermita say that the fish is good there too, it's just that we forget the place is there.
Thursday, we went to the movies, the movies are affordable here, $35 pesos on weekdays and matinees. We saw the Golden Compass, it was nothing great, I think you need to read the book to really enjoy the movie and we hadn't. So we had mall food for lunch. I concidered Burger King but we ended up at Los Trompos, which we knicknamed "all meat, all the time", but our favorite is to share a plate of Alambres de Res (or Al Pastor), which is thin slices of meat pan fried with bell peppers and onions and served with little flour tortillas. Once we ordered the platter for 2, and almost fainted, which is why we gave the place the nickname. The platter for 2 is chops, arrancherra,al pastor, some melted cheese, guacamole, some other meat, a cooked onion, some beans, and tortillas. It's enough for 4 or more, infact that is what we had at the State Fair and shared with La Muchacha and her daughter, we still brought home some scraps for Mr. Dog.
Today, we decided to go to the movies again, think we are feeling housebound, but don't really want to be around a lot of people, so we saw something called The legend of the lost treasure with Nicholas Cage, I don't know the name of the movie in English, but if you around 13 years old you will probably love it. The kids in the theatre did. Oh, since it was Saturday, the movie was $40.00 instead of $35.00 each. Still way cheaper than NOB. We shared a plate at Kalifornia something or other, it was Pollo in Salsa Baracoa, nothing like any barbecue sauce we'd ever had, maybe it was supposed to be terriyaki? But it was tasty enough, we got the entree and 3 side dishes, which in our case was mixed vegetables, fried bananas and fried potatoes, plus some "french" bread that was more like croutons. We also got green juice at La Michoacana, so that was virtuous.
This brings me to my food spending diary. I pretty much spend between $30.00 and $50.00 a day to eat. Even when we are out and about, though a few days ago we went out to breakfast for our anniversary and that was $110 each, but that is not our normal.

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