Culinary Course

Since John served his mission in Peru as a young elder,  our children have grown up with the stories of food he ate while serving in the remote regions in the Peru Arequipa Mission.  Many of those tales involved chicken and chicken parts.  We even have pictures of chicken heads and feet floating in the simmering stew pot set out over an open fire. While we do now live and serve in the  metropolitan area on the East side of Lima,  it is SOOOO comforting to know that options are still available for our culinary experiences while here.  We can still include chicken parts in the retelling of what we could choose from for our stew pot.

And seeing as how it is wrapped and prepared so carefully, it should be very safe for consumption.

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We live just a couple of blocks east of the University here in La Molina.  A university that includes a culinary school which hosts a small, trendy restaurant called Di.  Their specialty his postres (cakes) and dulces (sweet to eat things)

This lego cake made me think of Dryden.

Our first Saturday here, two sr. missionary couples, the Mayberrys (they are from St. David.  He is serving as the area medical advisor.  Faye is the sister to Celeste Innes) and the Halleys (they are from Indiana and he is serving as the area Auditor) took us to dinner and introduced us to Di.  They serve a very good frozen limonada (no yellow lemons here, all limes)

Strawberry Tart

Rasberry Cheesecake

Lasagna

This is a vegetarian burger made with beets and quinoa.  Fried onion rings on top and asparagus.  The french fries were good.  The burger was tasty, just needed a little beef. 

Looks are very deceiving.  This is a whipped jello dessert that has been left out and sort of dried and thick..... no bueno.  This was from an steak house we walked down too.  But the fantastic Ribeye and grilled vegetables were VERY delicioso.

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We work in the PSD office and our manager that we work with is Gabriel Paredes.  He is a young newly wed.  After we had been here a couple of weeks, he and his wife took us out to dinner at a trendy place near their house.... about five minutes from the offices.  It is called Manka and uses organic ingredients and stuff

this a grass limonada

This was our dessert.  It was a lime-mint sorbet type desert.  The stick is chocolate and raspberry dots

This is the berry cheesecake tart thingy. They had it.

This would be our main course.  A large dish shared by the four of us.  It was duck breast on a bed of cilantro rice that is piled on a sauce of aji or something else.  Topped with crispy something. It was yummy

This was the appetizer.  Yucca chips, a guacamole type base with raw tuna, corn and onions topped with bean sprouts.  It was actually pretty tasty.

the inside of the restaurant. It had small potted herbs as the center pieces and more potted ones on the back wall.