There was a tejate and tamale "festival" yesterday in Oaxaca. You might recall that tejate is that chocolate corn drink that looks a big gross but tastes great - more on tejate. Scott took the kids to sample the offerings. Just when we got there we got two elotes - roasted corn with mayoneaise, cheese, and lime juice. The roasted corn looked so good and I recommended that the kids get only corn, but they insisted on the works. As for the tejate, it we tried several different ones. Bottom line - we had one superb tejate - rich with deep chocolate flavor, one mediocre one, and one not so good one.
The kids and I love the stuff but Abby is a bit grossed out by the fact that the women make it by mixing the paste with their hands and arm. See the video below to see this in action. Actually, after I took this video, I realized that she was making coconut tejate. There is tejate from cocoa beans and one from coconut. We also sampled tejate cake - very good.
The kids and I love the stuff but Abby is a bit grossed out by the fact that the women make it by mixing the paste with their hands and arm. See the video below to see this in action. Actually, after I took this video, I realized that she was making coconut tejate. There is tejate from cocoa beans and one from coconut. We also sampled tejate cake - very good.
We also sampled the tamales - we had mole with chicken, chepil (a sort of veggie), and dulce (scary pink ones that were sweet). We also bumped into the woman who was taking the weaving workshop when we went to Teotitlan del Valle to get our tapestry. We have bumped into her and Kaya's library teachers several times. Oaxaca is big but seems small.
We bought some tamales to take back to Abby. She and Kelsey stayed home - Abby did wash!
Note from Abby here:
"Wash" means two hours of scrubbing in a sink up on the roof deck with a bar of laundry soap. We are too cheap to pay $10 to have someone else run it through a washing machine. Gave me some appreciation to the under-appreciated washing machine at home. Was grateful the rain held off until evening. There was something extra special about putting on our clean clothes the next day.
Note from Abby here:
"Wash" means two hours of scrubbing in a sink up on the roof deck with a bar of laundry soap. We are too cheap to pay $10 to have someone else run it through a washing machine. Gave me some appreciation to the under-appreciated washing machine at home. Was grateful the rain held off until evening. There was something extra special about putting on our clean clothes the next day.
Later that evening the kids and Scott went to the Oaxacan Textile Museum to see about workshops for the kids. There were no more scheduled for kids before we leave, but Scott was able to sign up for a wool dying workshop and they said I could bring Kaya. This will be showing us how to dye yarn with natural materials. Should be interesting. We did a quick tour of the museum to see the exhibit Mitla to Sumatra, an exposition of tapestries from around the world. It was gorgeous. The museum itself was beautiful and the tapestries were amazing.
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