Venezuelan cooking

 Jose looked at me as I was watching him with this, smiled and said "Bienvenido a Venezuela". Yesterday was Javier's birthday, but there were a bunch of police around searching for someone so we stayed in the house. But so tonight we went to Javier's house and made hotdogs and had cake. Venezuelan hotdogs are an amazing improvement on what we eat in MN. We drove around for a while finding all of the supplies which was an adventure in itself, but eventually we were ready. I sliced all the buns and put them in the strainer over the pot of water to warm up while the hotdogs cooked. What makes the meal is all the toppings. On top of the actual hotdog we put diced onion, crunched up chips, ham, cheese, cilantro, cheese sauce, hot sauce, and really thinly sliced carrots. i had five. they were awesome. a piece of cake (torta here, not pastel) and i was so happy. had to go lay down in the hammock for a while and thought i was going to explode, but i was very happy.

while cooking