Sunday December 27 2009
It’s another warm sunny day here in San Blas.
A lady came to the door selling fruits and vegetables. She had a bag of tomatoes for 10 pesos. I have been planning on making spaghetti from scratch and inviting Jean-Paul, Mylaine and Ed over for dinner. The recipe calls for 20 tomatoes, this bag had close to 30 but some were small and a little greener than I would have picked out but it was a good buy so I bought the bag.
Now I had to find the rest of the ingredients, should be an easy thing to do. I got out our book The Peoples Guide to Mexico, to get the Spanish names for the spices I would need. I found the oregano but basil and thyme were another story. I asked Ed if by chance he had any, he had some that he had picked from his garden and dried. He also had some corn starch. He did tell me that the Minisuper Kane had the corn starch but they sell in bulk so you ask for it by weight.

Monday December 28 2009
I started cooking the sauce around 11 this morning. I decided I needed another pot; I only have one big one that I would need to cook the noodles in so I bought another one for 90 pesos to cook the sauce in.
The hamburger (ground meat) is not like ours at home. It has a lot of liquid and fat that I cooked off instead of draining. I think it tastes different to.
Everyone said the dinner was good but I felt something was missing in the sauce.
We had rain again this evening, not a lot but we didn’t go to the plaza.