Juane (pronounced “who-on-ay”, for you super-gringos out there) is a cuisine of the jungle. This popular food is sold nightly by vendors in front of their houses. Everyone seems to know how to make it. Everyone loves to eat it. It is quite tasty –depending on what surprise you get inside. Check out the process.
1) You go pick giant leaves out of your back yard and heat them over a stove
2) Fill leaves with flavored rice, chicken, eggs, and aceitunas (olives that kick you in the face –nothing at all like olives in the can).
3) Tie the leaves up with a stringy-grass-also-from-your-backyard-thing.
4) Boil the leaves for hours and hours.
5) All done. Now you have an entire meal in a leaf.
Kelly and I really do enjoy eating this food. The only issue we have is when it comes to the chicken. Only after arriving down here, did we begin to realize how many pieces you can cut a chicken into. It is actually rather impressive –to watch, not eat. The girls, bless their little hearts, love, love to eat the legs and necks of the chickens. A
few weeks ago, as a famished Aaron eagerly picked his prized Juane, he quickly untied the grass and came to a grave realization. Out of 35 Juanes, he landed one of the two with a foot. But it was not just one foot, but two feet. As the leaf unraveled, two feet were sticking out to say their farewells. What luck! He lost his appetite. Fortunate for him, he was able to fill up on Coca-Cola instead. You can never judge a Juane by its leaf…
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Oh Shame! Uh.....what a sad Surprise. LOL!!!! Don't think you'll be much of a meat eater when you get home.... hey? This seems so odd as it's a leaf.... why the feet inside? Oh Well.....when we visit you'll have to Really HELP!!! Shame...
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