I'm sure it will come with no surprise to most of you that I have been diligent to discover the traditional and common desserts our new country has to offer. The ice cream here is much more available than I'd imagined and so far just as good as what you may buy in the States (of course, nothing can even come close to Bop's frozen custard or homemade ice cream). They do have some interesting flavors though... Beth tried some bright pink ice cream flavor the other day. I'm pretty sure they called it "chewingum", so I'll let you make your own judgement on that one. haha.
However, you can never (in two weeks) go wrong with candied peanuts. Here they prepared them street side and you can buy them hot and fresh. Yum! There are delicious, and at least the peanut is semi-healthy, right?!? They are also rather cheap.
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| The street side cart where the peanuts are candied. |
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| Traditional sweets (front to back): candied peanuts (I love them), baklava (quite similar to what you might find in the States), mushy-gooey-pistachio stuff?!??, and "caak" (not to be confused with a donut, it is bread-like on the inside but the outside is like an almond candying of sorts). |
Was just reading through your blog. Enjoyed catching up on how it's all going with the two of you. Reminded me of our days in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Had a good laugh over the 2 liter Coke story.
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Remembering to talk to Father about you. Looking forward to future updates.
Love, Teri (Metts)
YUM!!!
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