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Our family used up our frequent flyer miles and went back to visit Guatemala this summer. We returned this week and we are back in the saddle cooking all day. We had some Roma striped Tomatoes available from our garden and so we have included them in our Garden Tomato and Basil Bertha Burstin’ Loaves.

We are thankful to Rachel Dorsey, Helena and Wes Edwards, and Mary Bendfeldt who helped provide you A Bowl of Good products at the market while we were gone and made our trip possible. We heard nothing but good and we’re hoping we can get Wes a gig here in the ‘burg for his guitar playing.

The trip gave us lots of ideas for ingredients and cooking from beautiful and colorful Guatemala.

From the Poqomchi (Eva’s people group) we ate the white, corn based, turkey soup called “Sak’ ik’”.

From the Keck’chi’ (Luther’s people group) we ate the clear red based, turkey soup called “Kak’ ik’”.

And from the Ixil we ate the amazingly healthy Boxboles (pronounced bosch-bowl-ies) which are essentially steamed squash-type leaves wrapped around tortilla paste, slathered in a delicious tomato sauce, and dipped in a pumpkin seed sauce. They look like green cigars.

We always like talking about Guatemala. If you have an inkling of interest, drop by and have a chat with us about it.