Chinola

Yum.  Spent this morning sipping some coffee, dancing in the kitchen to some Brooke Frasier (okay and some Chris Brown and Enrique too.....), whipping up some brownies and salad for lunch, and trying my hand at making chinola juice.   Chinola is passion fruit and the juice is UNBELIEVABLE.  Sometimes Margo makes it, although Olvis and Amaury can rock some chinola juice as well.   We all love it and it's usually gone in a matter of minutes.   Soooooo you cut the chinola in half and then scoop out the fruit stuff (which has some black seed-like things in it) and then you blend it all up since it's kinda thick.   Then you strain it, add some water and sugar and just start drooling.  It's awesome.    

Hey- here I am in my pjs scooping out the fruit stuff.

strain after blending....

Ahhhhh ready to drink.  Soooooooo good.

It's been a great week.   I was in the clinic  with the last group doing ENT and Ortho surgery.  Awesome docs, awesome patients, awesome time.  Ufff and last night I bumped into one of my little 3 year old patients in Corbano Sur who was happy to give hugs and kisses and say that he was "bien..bien".  So cute!  I LOVE that.  There I was, playing dominos with some pals, laughing and carrying on and talking trash...and out of nowhere comes little D, meandering over for hugs.  It's the best.     And when it starts to rain, we move the domino board to someone's porch and squeeze in and keep going and Laura and I roar with the shouting and gesturing and wild antics of our "frentes".   And she's learning dominos and it's the best to have my manita here with me, doing the vida we do.     And the music blares and the plantains fry and the power goes off ("se fue la luz") and the neighbors call out saludos and the kids run by screaming and laughing and life feels FULL.  

I'm about to kill some chinola juice, ya'll.   The next group will be here in about one minute.  Game on.