September 9, 2011

 

Julie and I have been in Lima for a month now.  Our personal and household goods are finally going to be released from Customs and everything will be delivered to the apartment on Saturday.

 

 

 

We have a couple of new favorite foods.  My favorite is the pastry called "orejitas", or little ears.  In Spain they were called "palmeras".  I have even found them in Hong Kong.  Julie's favorite is the chocolate covered almonds.

For a month now we have eaten almost every dinner together at the hotel restaurant.  Because we like to eat earlier in the evening than the Peruvians, the majority of the time we are the only ones in the place.  The waiters have gotten to know us by name.

The food is always good but they did not have anything light on the menu.  It was always a full meal. 

 Each dinner began with a varity of dinner rolls.  In the words of our waiter "pancitos bien calientes".

Always very artistic presentations.

Chicken wraped in bacon served on a bed of the most flavorful potatoes you've ever tasted.

Steak with a corn cake pattie.

Steak in curry sauce.  This alone was worth the move to Peru.  It only looks scary.

We finally tried a hamburger from the room service menu.

We noticed that there was a "Bimbo Gathering" in one of the conference rooms.  Go figure.

Actually, Bimbo is the "Wonder Bread" of Peru.