After you have been on one island for over month you begin to find routines and favorite places to eat. You wake up some mornings thinking about what you know you want to eat that day. For me it has been a smoothie from Latitudes or the calypso shrimp from Wild Mangos. Shrimp Nachos and a fresh caesar salad are also favorites of mine from Hurricanes. Last week when we were trying to decide what we were going to eat for dinner we found we were in the mood for something quick and and casual but none of our usual meals fit the mood we were in. We went wondering down to our favorite grocery store on the island La Isla Grocery and found some yummy homemade tortilla chips and this sparked an idea. What if we made our own salsa. I brought a plate and cup as well as utensils and there was a vegetable stand up the street that sold a fresh tomato based salsa. We went to the stand and purchased a small tub of salsa and then went back to the grocery store where we had purchased our chips and got a can of black beans and a can of corn. Oh boy did we hit a jackpot. With the fresh tomatoes and cilantro from the stand and then our American twist with corn and black beans this has become a favorite meal of ours. This is a picture from our salsa picnic the other night on my beach towel on the floor of my room. We plan to try to make the tomato salsa from the stand back home and have studied the ingredients as well as watched the lady make it carefully. Although it will never be the same as it is here we are up for the challenge and look forward to the result back in the states.
