FOOD!

For a period of about a week I had several guests over for various reasons. With the help of Melissa we cooked some amazing food with the little we could in the jungle.


These are my new neighbors Greg and Lisa, the are from Philly and live about and hour away. We made pizza with them. We made the dough from scratch used American singles, and cooked it in a frying pan with aluminum foil as a lid.

This is Sebastien, he was visiting interested in doing some research. He works with the Smithsonian Insititute on Bocas Island, and is researching an improved septic system for places with high water tables and clayey soil where black water filters in VERY slowly. He is also from Belgium and makes amazing crepes.

Heres our breakfast creps, including all the toppings. Scrambled eggs, bananas, peanut butter etc.

Later I went to visit a freind Mo to help survey her aqueduct. She is a vegetarian and knows how to make a mean salad. This was my first succesful experience with tofu.
Lastly, another friend Jess came from the other side of the country to do research on her masters thesis. She was measuring pH and temperature of all the 40 composting latrines in my site, then took samples from 5. The idea is to check if they are successfully killing all pathogens and to see what moisture level and dry material is the best. She made chicken parm. Without the chicken or parmesean. Instead she used crushed ritz crackers, egg and soy meat made into patties. Excellent!

We also made banana pancakes from scratch. Mashing up bananas sure makes your batter go along farther. You can also Johnny Cakes which are very popular because you can back them of a fire.