I'm Stephanie Mendez, I was born in Ecuador. I came to the United States at the age of 11 and since that moment I have been living here, learning a new language, new culture, making new friends, and making new perspectives about my life and future as time goes by. My Research Paper class gave us a topic to reflect on which is about food.
For my personal opinion, I love food. Who doesn't? and I also like to try new kinds of dishes. I live with my mom and she is from Colombia which means it's a lot of arepas (corn bread) with huevos pericos (scramble eggs with tomatoes, onions and green peppers) and coffee at the house. Honestly, my mom is the one who cooks most of the time, but I always help her to prepared the ingredients.
Moreover, when we do our shopping for our groceries, we go to ours closest Super Market, BJ's and "Risaralda" (Colombian Butcher Shop and goodies). The Super Market is mostly for grains, veggies, fruits, and traditional food such as arepas, colombian cheese, etc which are easy to get since we live close to it. BJ's on the other hand we go mostly for the organic section, specially the milk and meat or sometimes vegetables and fruits only if haven't buy it yet. "Risaralda" is the butcher shop where my mom likes to buy the traditional colombian meat and goodies such as chicharron aumado (smoked pork belly), entrana (skirt steak), pajarilla (don't know how to explain in english), chorizo (colombian sausage), and many others.
Further more, I have a good appetite so its hard for me to have a special dish, since any food dish have it's own special flavor even if it's vegetarian. However, the fact that I love food doesn't mean that I like everything or that let myself eat whatever food that looks good. I like to make sure, oh well, I try to be sure where my food comes from, since at the end it's really hard to know that nowadays. Following this further, my mom and I try to make sure that our meat is not tortured and we do that by going to the poultry or the organic sections of the markets. In the same way, we get our vegetables, fruits, herbs etc by the season and organic eggs.
As you can see, we try our best to not contributed slaughter animals that we eat and not only because its animal cruelty, also because its bad for our health. Besides that we like veggies, fruits, grains that are healthier by being organic. I don't deny that I eat junk food because I do, like once or twice in a while but I do it, since is so delicious and tempting, but on the other hand I know, it can be bad for me and I don't reject the idea to become a vegetarian and stop eating junk food.
Thank you Fellow Readers for taking your time to read this blog I hope you enjoy it! ;)
Steph
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ReplyDeleteWow. You guys have such variety of meats. I did'nt know that meat came in smoked and also pork belly? Your mom most be a great cook.
I have read almost evrybodys' blogs but you are the first healthy student from all.. I mean no one stated if they cared their food was organic or not. Or the meat they eat has not been through any kind of suffering and stuff. I myself have never really thought over it. Come to think of it, I have just started buying grocery and cooking. So I never really gave much thought at what I picked from the stores and cooked. But thumbs up to you and your mom! :)
Stay healthy!
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ReplyDeleteWow your very detailed with your blog post, the places that you and your mom buys your food and the kinds of foods that you purchase. My favorite type of meat that you listed would have to be chorizo. Especially when its deep fried.. YUM. =] Well it was nice to read your blog , and see you in class. =]
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ReplyDeleteThe first thing i noticed is you said your ecuadorian, there some of the coolest spanish people i know. Your really descriptive and i enjoyed reading the blog. I always wanted to try spanich food, it's sounds awesome. Your a great writer, keep on posting.