GLUTEN FRIDAY!

The Mennonites do good work. Very good work. And this good work was the cause for GLUTEN FRIDAY!


La Bakeshop is only open Tuesdays and Fridays, and because I wanted Dave and our friend Lindsey, who I teach with Tuesdays/Thursdays, to taste the BEST DONUTS IN THE WORLD, we took the bus over to Zona 3 in the morning.

Dave bought a chocolate donut, ran outside, and ate it, all in the time to took Lindsey and I to decide what to buy to take to community lunch and what kind of donut we wanted for ourselves. Dave came back inside and admitted it was indeed the best donut he had ever had. Then he noticed that he could have gotten a chocolate iced donut with coconut, he moved too quickly the first time and missed it. So he bought a second donut this time with the coconut.

I had chocolate with coconut, again. I was going to branch out, to the filled donuts, but chocolate with cream filling seemed like too much and I really wanted chocolate. I also picked up a few bags of granola to snack on during the week, and a ham and cheese croisant for a savory snack (what gluten Friday would be complete without a savory snack?) and chocolate snow-flake cookies for community lunch at school.

Lindsey went with chocolate iced with peanut to eat at the shop, and M&M oatmeal cookies for later, and donut holes for community lunch.

Next Gluten Friday I will try the powder sugar with fruit filling (stawberry, or fig, or blackberry) or the glazed filled with apple.

After Bakeshop we walked to Mercado Democracia to buy what Dave needed to make guacamole for community lunch. Later at community lunch another student tried to move in on Dave's territory of Guacamole, but his was superior in texture, flavor, and quantity.

Democracia is a great market that covers a few blocks of stalls and flows into the streets.



You can find just about any fruit or vegetable for a great price. Dave bought six huge avocados and four limes for 20Q (less than three dollars). We picked up a huge bunch of bananas for less than a buck.

You can get fresh goat milk from vendors like this guy.

He milks into a little styrofoam cup, pours it into a plastic bag, and you are on your way with a nice hot bag of goat milk...

At your next stop you can be like Dave and try on some shades while you wait for another hole to be punched in your new belt.


After the shopping Gluten Friday moved to Community Lunch at El Nahual, where I ate blintzes with raisins, donut holes (as good if not better than the donuts), and chocolate snowflake cookies that put the ones I made at Christmas to shame. It was AWESOME.


Also, Dave now has a blog. You can get his take on things here.