Food!

Most delicious pizza ever! One of our last meals in the USA.                      

Empanada and chicha morada at the Lima airport during our 12 hour layover to Quito.                      

Our first meal in Quito, it was too good to wait for a picture. Homemade tostadas.                      

Almuerzo. A typical Ecuadorian lunch, $3.00.                      

Vegetarian ceviche for dinner.

 

A nice taste of home with some pizza Ecuadorian style.

 

A tasty treat for dessert, chocolate empanadas.                  

Canelazo, an Ecuadorian drink that has fresh cinnamon and mint.

 

An amazing dinner in Mindo of shrimp spaghetti.                  

Appetizers before our meal in Mindo, banana chips and popcorn with an amazing salsa dip.                  

Chicken wings with cacao BBQ sauce. So amazing!!!                  

Ecuadorian ice cream, made with no milk, high concentration of real fruit and mixed in a giant metal bowl surrounded by ice. It is called helado de paila.                

One weekend all of the other volunteers at our volunteer house were out of town and it was just the two of us for dinner. This is what we came downstairs to find when we got the dinner call. It felt like we stepped in to the movie The Lady and the Tramp.                

Our homemade chocolate empanadas. Yum yum yum!                

Canelazo, an Ecuadorian hot drink made from narajilla, a fruit that comes from a locally grown nightshade plant mixed with cinnamon, sugar, and sometimes mint. It tastes like liquid caramel. The one on the left is straight canelazo from narajilla and the one of the right is made with raspberries instead of narajilla.                

This is helado de paila. The fruit concentrate ice cream with no milk. The best ice cream we have ever had, hands down!                

Tyler loves his pizza and we have tasted a number of different pizza places around Quito and none of them were very good until we found Don Matteo. Don Matteo is an Italian who was living in Germany when he moved to Ecuador. His pizza is true Italian pizza and it is amazing!                

At Mitad del Mundo we had beef and chicken empanadas for lunch... so tasty!                

At La Ronda we found fresh grilled chorizo, a spiced meat, oh so delicious!                

At the top of the TeleferiQo cable car that takes you above Quito Mary found what must be the world's largest ball of cotton candy and it was only $2 and totally worth it!

 

An amazing chocolate mousse with dulce de leche (amazing caramel)... so rich and so delicious!

 

Along with the chocolate mousse we shared with a friend, we also had this amazing sweet crepe wth strawberries (crepe dulce con frutilla).

 

This was our lunch on the go in the Amazon. We made the pan de yuca from scratch and the rice mixture was provided by the lodge we stayed at. Amazing how food tastes so much better when you've really had to work for it!

 

In Mindo we were served this fruit platter with our breakfast. It includes: strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, papaya, and granadilla.

 

This is cuy (ku-ee), an Ecuadorian delicacy. It tastes amazing!

 

This was our Thanksgiving dinner in Puerto Lopez, breaded shrimp!

 

This was our first Peruvian meal, it was at the LDS temple in Lima, and it was so amazing! So much flavor in Peruvian food. Yum!

 

On our 21.5 hour bus ride from Lima to Cusco they fed us dinner and breakfast. This was dinner, it was surprisingly better than most airplane food I have had.

Papa a la huancaina, a Peruvian appetizer with potatoes and hard boiled eggs on a bed of lettuce covered with a yellow spicy sauce.

Lomo Saltado, Peruvian stir fry served with french fries and rice.