Cocinar en San Cristobal de las Casas

Pineapple and mango.

When we were in San Cristobal we had a nice apartment with a kitchen. We would cook most of our meals there and I helped. Our first night there we had noodles with camaronnes (shrimp). It took a long time to take off the heads and peel of the shell.

We had this little fruit and vegetable shop that we would go to a lot and get stuff to make soup and fruit salad. There was also a bread shop that we would go to get bread to make French toast. One morning I cut up a pineapple (pina) and some mango with my dad and ate it with the French toast. It was good.

We had a lot of chicken soup because there were a lot of people selling roasted chicken and we wanted soup. We ate the chicken by itself but used the chicken bones to make soup stock.

Here is our recipe for the soup:

1. Make chicken stock by getting water in a pot and putting a chicken carcass in it. Cook on the stove for at least an hour.
2. While your stock is cooking cut up onions (cebolla), carrot (zanahoria) and potatoes(papas). Cook all of this in a pan with oil and add salt and pepper.
3. When the stock is finished strain it and put the vegetables in the stock pot. 
4. Then put the stock in the pot and cook it for a half-hour.      
5. Add salt and pepper.
6. Then eat it!!!              

Fruit market.

Bread shop,

French toast.

Me cooking soup.

Straining the stock.

Soup with bread.