The Food

As I'm sure you can tell from reading our blog a lot of our time is spent eating.  That has not changed.  The first thing we did when we got here was hail the French Baker who I have already written about.  However I thought I'd let you all see what delivery by panga looks like.

Anton and the French Baker in the back row with Ryan, Charlie, Kelly and Luke getting their morning croissants.  This is just about a daily occurance except for Wednesday's - French Baker is off that day.

As for dinners we've been having lots of Mexican food as you can imagine.  One of our favorites is a meal made in a Mexican Molcajete Lava Bowl.  The bowl is heated and stays hot for at least an hour after you are done.  You can get fish, shrimp, steak, chicken or a mix.  I had the steak, Phil had the shrimp and friends visiting had just about every other combination and we all loved them.

One of the other things that we decided we liked are tortas.  They are rather large sandwiches made on a large roll and stuffed with meat, chicken or fish.  I'm partial to the pork - carnitas tortas.  We especially liked them at a restaurant we found in Melaque - the town at the other end of the bay here in Barra de Navidad.

You can get the sandwiches smothered which is the best way.  You probably won't need dinner after eating this puppy.  Our favorite place to eat these is a little sidewalk restaurant in Melaque.

You can see Ryan, Kelly and me sitting at the far right table.

But the place we have visited the most here in Barra is Thrifty's ice cream. 

When we are out in anchorages it is hard to get anything with ice - especially ice cream so when we are in port we opt for eating our weight in ice cream.

Most of the time we eat our three meals a day on the boat.  Shopping in little tiendas is easy here in Barra and in the small town where the marina is - Colimilla.  The ladies in Colimilla now know Ryan and I since we do most of the shoppping.  You can always find staples in the tiendas - milk, butter, eggs, etc...  Some days the produce is better than others.  Meat is very hard to come by and I've walked to Melaque a few times to get meat at the carneteria and to shop at the Hawaiian market.  The Hawaiian market has some of those hard to find things like - bagels, tomato paste,  and kiwi. 

We've also dabbled in local "spirits."  Our favorite is Controy.  It is an orange flavored liquor that is similar to Contreau.  We use it to make margaritas.  We've also tried most of the beers.  Pacifico still seems to be the favorite.  We think Modelo is like Bud Light.  We like a dark beer that Modelo makes which is called Victoria. 

We have not gone thirsty or hungry here in Mexico.