Happy dawgz!

Raw meat for the doggos – 2.5 kilos (5.5 lbs) each of meaty bones and chicken gizzards (menudos) and 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) of beef heart. US $15 for all. Heart the most expensive at about US $2.25/lb. Seems like a good investment.

In the background milk (yes, in a plastic bag) for another batch of yogurt, and cilantro for another batch of salsa Mexicana. And flour tortillas: I’m OK making pizza and bagels and such, but the idea of making flour tortillas hasn’t grabbed me. Maybe one day. Sure, they look easy enough…but doesn’t everything on the internet? (Here’s looking to you, it’s-so-easy two-stroke engine tuneup guy with 15 years experience.)

Of course I had to have dessert

And of course you know what I had to order. Hot (both caliente and picante!) chocolate topped with ice cream. Yum!

A very silly car, but I like it

Home delivery of schawarma, lemeyun (Armenian pizza), falafel, baklava: what’s not to like?

Perhaps the fact that my photo wasn’t detailed enough to get the phone number? But hey. Took about two minutes to figure it out.

Two eggs, broke a yolk…

…leaving three intact. We’ve been getting a lot of double yolkers lately. Young commercial hens?

(It happens in old hens too, but commercial hens don’t live to be old.)

Picked 4 avocados

Total weight 3.7 kg – 8 lbs 2 oz.

One thing I really like about living here

Local honey: we live in Atlántida.

Local wine: 33 km (20.5 miles) away as the crow flies.

Almost all our produce, meat, and dairy come from within 200 km (124 miles). No 3,000-mile salads here!

Why oranges…

…were not on my shopping list. For the first time in (10?) years we have a great crop of oranges in the back yard.

Doubles

My first attempt at bread with a new sourdough starter was not a roaring success, so I ended up with small pieces of toast for breakfast (at noon). What more fitting to go along with them than an egg with two yolks?

Smiley pizza

I’ll have a slice of pizza. Please make sure it’s smiling.

Hot hot hot

Yes, they actually sell a container for freezing lemon wedges. Perfect for my first harvest of hot chili peppers, segregated pending an expert opinion regarding the heat of each. One “wedge” of yellow is probably about right for one batch of salsa méxicana, but red and green/black? Ya veremos.