Eating Oaxacan style

Lunch at el mercado organico

We are in the land of great food! This morning our instructor brought us hot chocolate made in the Oaxacan tradition with cinnamon and almond. Very rich (sabroso!). Eric said it was like drinking 3 or 4 espressos. It definitely sped up the morning. For lunch (comida) at the organic market, we enjoyed tamales, tlacoyo (huge freshly made tortillas filled with wonderful stuff. You can choose from a selection of vegetarian or meat ingredients that are cooked together on a hot stone stove. It’s a little like a quesadilla but oh so much better. We washed it all down with fresh pineapple and ginger juice with NO sugar! Finally, Lynn perused the baked goods while Eric chatted with a new friend. This evening we hauled our week's worth of laundry down to the local lavanderia where a mother and daughter will wash, fold and have all of our clean clothes waiting for us tomorrow afternoon. We’ll enjoy a huge apple turnover with crema after a light dinner of leftover pizza. Jealous yet?

Beautiful courtyard of the Iglesia Xochimilco where the organic market takes place