Peace Corps Holiday Fun with Host Family

When the holidays come around, it is nothing but food, family, and well more food! We were making some tamales made of corn with some spices and in the center they had chicken or pork! Mine of course were vegan with only onions! We wrapped them up in big palm leafs to hold the flavors in and used huge pots to cook the 100 tamales for about an hour or two.

 These are the huge pots they used to cook all the tamales.



 And cannot forget the ensalada de feria, which is like potato salad with radishes to give it a red color!

And our entertainment for the day was when all the dogs, boys, and men went to hunt down an iguana in the "back yard" hillside. They said this will be their future meal of iguana soup....


My Panamanian's mother birthday is like the day after New Years so I made her a personal upside down pineapple cake! I should have known to make a bigger one because she is one of the nicest and generous people I have met here and ended up sharing her little cake with 15 people!

So we all ate little pieces of cake that reminded me of the size of cake cut for the magazine editor in, Confessions of a Shopaholic! Oh well she enjoyed it, even with a match as her candle :)


Then the next day when her family came, a bigger fiesta with a pinata, arroz con pollo, and more family!





 She seriously could not smiling!!


The story for this was it flew up a bit and knocked in to two trees and when we thought it was for sure free to float in the sky, it got caught by another tree! Oh well, they tried the hot air balloon idea!




Crazy kids and adults fighting over candy! I just took pictures..

I think it was a tres leches cake.


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