Adventures in food

The Fletcher's have this little OBSESSION with movies. Mostly like Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks kind of movies. It's pretty fan freaking tastic because I'm equally obsessed. Not one has ever let me down. Well besides Antz but that's another story.

Emmett is going to Peru in April for two weeks. This does tie into my movie thing I promise. Upon finding out about this he has a new Peru obsession and I'm really diggin it. It's adorable too. So anywho, one morning he woke up and said, " I want to make Pollo a la brasa!" I kid you not.
Now I hardly speak any Espanol so I definitely don't get Peruvian but I know what Pollo is.

                                  (For those that don't, it's chicken. Smarty pants.)

Pollo a la brasa is a Peruvian dish that is supposably really popular. In one of his classes, Emmett and his classmates are designing, constructing and testing an oven to take to Peru and show the people how to make and use it. They want an oven to be able to make rotisserie chicken and other food. Which is basically the dish he wanted to try and create. This reminds me of the Taylor Swift song, Superman.  I just love Tswizzle.

He went online and researched lots and lots and LOTS of sites online looking at recipes and directions on how to cook it. After about an hr and a half, at least, of this he came up with a lengthy list and we hit the stores.
First stop, this bright pink building, "Mexicana Mercado". Ahh...seeing this place always reminds me of home. Err, Escondido. Ya, ok, home. Well we picked up some seriously strange items in little jars with words I can not even come close to pronouncing and I was wondering if he really even knew what we were purchasing. He tried to assure me this was all part of his class research. I still don't know if I buy that.

Okay, back to the movies. We all know the one, Emperor's New Groove do we not? Well on this day of making this chicken, (that has to marinate for SIX hours, did I mention that yet?), we had a bunch of fresh spinach I needed to do something with fast before it went bad. I decided to make spinach puffs which I had never done before and honestly didn't even know what they looked like.
Right then, it was like a giant pillar of light shone down on me and I had this thought, they make spinach puffs in this movie! FUN! So I said, jokingly, that we should have an Emperor's New Groove party and eat spinach puffs! Then Emmett, bright guy, brought up the fact that we were already having a Peruvian meal. In case you have been in a cave for years and never seen this amazing movie, it takes place in Peru. SHWWIIIING!!! Movie night with a themed meal. So on short notice we invited some people over to share in our adventure of new foods and a good movie. We also made little 'viles' of 'poison' and our brother and sister brought their own version of 'poison' that was super creative and just like in the movie!!

Well, I must say that the spinach puffs were surprisingly delicious and the chik- I mean pollo a la brasa was darn good too. I think we expected a little more flavor and a little less, um, well, burntness heh heh. But it was still tasty. And buying a few jars of mystery slime at a hole in the wall mercado on University Ave beats spending $23 to try it at a hole in the wall Peruvian 'restaurant'.

Definitely a meal we decided we would have to try again. Little did I know my husband would tell me that he was ready to again only a week later.

Yes, my llama looks like a scottish terrior. So what. I never said I was an artist.