Blogs from Puerto Rico, Central America Caribbean - page 21

Greetings from Viejo San Juan, PR. It's a little after 10pm and I'm struggling to stay awake. The worst news of the day is that I forgot my camera's usb cable, so I can't upload any photos. I'll try to buy another one here or have mine shipped to me in Bequia. So, for now all you get are these boring "no photo" blogs. SORRY! I arrived in SJ about 3:30. I'm staying at a hotel called "DaHouse". When the taxi driver dropped me off I couldn't even find the front door. I asked the bartender across the alley and he said "third door" When I got to the third door it was locked. About that time a couple of girls came out the door and I asked how to get in. "You have to ring ... read more

Rabbit Fricase Puerto Rican style Yesterday, there were 25 rabbits, already skinned, provided by the Finito's family. Finito Sr, and I cut them, washed the pieces in the escamador(an air conditioned room for the purpose of scaling and cutting fish). We cut and peeled 15 lbs of potatoes. 3 lbs of onions in rebanadas (sliced in rounds) 7 garlic heads, which I promptly minced. Then the fun started. Trapito, one of the guys here, brought a homemade stove and a propane tank. This huge pot. In went 1 gallon of welch grape juice, the rabbits, onions, 1 cup of rum(white), 1 can of coke, 1 teaspoon of instant coffee, 1 can of beer, laurel leaves, culantro in a great quantity, the garlic, goya adobo without pepper, goya achiote sazon, cooked for an hour, added the potatoes, ... read more

Hello All - I'm back again. On the blog and in Puerto Rico. Things have been pretty good. The weather is mediocre, but not to hot, which makes for good monkey experiment times. Monkeys I recognize from last year are a year bigger. Its amazing how much they grow! I've finished one project and moved onto the second. Which is good because I have four things on the docket for this one month that I am here. I'm also writing a grant, and I feel that is going really well too. I "finished" it on the first, and so I have until the 14th to continue to work on it. Yeah! Things go fast though. The undergraduates I started with here are already leaving next week. Ack! And I still have to remember to plan some ... read more

The avocado is long, like a gourd, but taste same. The granada, Wikipedia calls a sweet grenadilla, tastes a bit like orange and almond. Some of the seed are hard, so you spit those out. Hard to eat. Claimss good for the stomach.... read more

We were invited to Mercedes and Daniel's home today. This is the 2nd time we have been invited to their house. Mercedes cooked an asopado de Camarones, (rice and shrimp in a soup). We also had barbecued chicken and pork skewers to pick. I brought 4 plantains very ripe. She cooked them in the oven, so simple, she cut ends off, lay them in a pan with nothing, and cooked them for about 25 minutes in the oven. The skin breaks open, easily removed. Very tasty! and no grease! After lunch we played dominoes, to the double 6, different than the Cuban which is double nine. But same rules, same slapping, same name calling...What a blast! We came back to the club around 1600, to see what was going on...We found lot's of activities, members cooking ... read more