On Thursday me and my family all loaded up in Jose's bus and they took me out to a plot of land 30 minutes down the coast, right on the boarder of Peru.
This plot is where Eli and Elberto's Grandma was born and raised. Their grandma died last year at 96, so this adobe house is over 100 years old. This particular part is the kitchen. That is Eli looking for fire wood.
This is what the inside of the kitchen looked like.
The reason they brought me out here was because they wanted to have a BBQ Bolivian style! First what they do is they build this. Then they build a fire in it. and wait until the rocks get so hot they start turning white.
Here I am pretending to my part in helping. :)
Here are Eli and Theodora with the food. They had two kinds of Potatoes. Normal kind and then oca. They had all kinds of meet. They had beef, pork, chicken and lamb. They put it in the most amazing sauce!
When the stones are hot enough, they put the fire out and threw the potatoes on the bottom. Then they put the tins with the meet in and put some of the hot rocks on top of it. After that they put sheets of metal on top of the stones and then this herb... I don't know what it is called in English, but it smells really good.
Then they cover it up to keep all of the steam and flavor from the herb in. We left it like that for an hour.
in the mean time I showed Jovy what people from the "campo" (countryside) in the US are like.
after the hour wait, we all sprawled out on a blanket and dug in. No utensils were allowed. We ate with our hands. By far the best BBQ I have every been to. I love my family!!!! They are so good to me!
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