Now, this did not help one bit!!!

I was in Kalispell, Montana, and had an Elk Burger. Then I saw in the menu that they had a 2 1/2 lbs hamburger! So, when I returned there two weeks later I told the people in the software class I was teaching that I wanted to try that. Two of them came along: Dillon and Patti. We had fun but when the burger arrived it was a blast!!! 

Here are the pictures. I feel bad now because I had actually lost about 3 lbs from Honduras and now I got a lot more than 2 1/2 back because I have been misbehaving in the food department... and what is worse! I am going to Brazil in a couple of days! What if do this there? 

The belly is here and it is winning but one of these days I will stop!!!!! Here goes, the elk burger and the huge burger... hey and also the soup that I had every day in between these crazy adventures in eating as my friends can testify I did.

SPICE HUNTER SPLIT PEA SOUP! Simply the best! I had that almost every day!

ELK BURGER FROM SCOTTY'S BAR! Well, the antlers were too crunchy!

Honduras - San Pedro Sula -

OK... I did not write about this but here goes: I ate baleadas and lots of food in Honduras because I had not been there for 5 years and could not resist. But they were good food with rice and beans, vegetables, and meat that was not greasy.

I went to eat with my friends from the paper at this restaurant in San Pedro Sula that is built around this huge tree. My choice was

beef with tajaditas (fried platanos.... they eat fried platanos every time and there are different ones to choose from). This particular plate comes with cheese and I even found a menu option that had my son's name in it as you see on the side. From the menu you can find names of many foods you cannot even imagine that are amazingly tempting. This blog was to inspire one to eat less but I don't think I am doing a good job posting these pictures and menus here, am I? Oh well... here goes the picture of what I had there. Menu item: Plato Tipico.

One memorable meal was at the Guamilito, a crafts market (huge) where they serve also foods prepared there for the locals, not food for tourists with fancy silverware and stuff. This is tortillas that the ladies are preparing there in front of you!!! Well, my favorite stand is the one run by Estelina. Everybody knows here and she had not changed one bit from 2005! Actually, I told her she looked even younger and had a very nice hairdo. Here is the picture of Estelina:

She was so happy with the comment that she gave us some delicious chicken soup for free that she had delivered to our tables minutes after we paid (I went there with my friend Christian on 09/14/10) If you go to San Pedro Sula you have to go to Guamilito and eat at that place.

On the 15th of September I also visited a banana market on the road to some caves (see pictures of the cave and all at my albuns in Picasa) and there were all lots of fruits. I drank from a coconut and then ate the inside that was soft and sweet. I even tried a red banana called Caribe that tastes like a platano but looks like a banana. Here is the picture of the amazing red banana that got some good comments in Facebook:

I also ate this huge fish that I ate at this lake called Yojoa lake. They fish there, and put the fish in a big freezer. The locals go and choose a fish and they fry it right there. Some people swear you can fry the fish at home and it will not be the same. The tables have jars with pickled onions and cabage. It is amazing!!! I picked a big fish and took a picture of it. My friends Oscar and his wife Olga took me there. It was a very nice day. This was a holiday in Honduras, Indepence Day, and they were very nice to take me places including the said cave. Here is a picture of the fish.

But I had local fruit like green mangos with salt and lichas (a fruit that looks like the eyeball, egg, or brain of some hairy alien creature)... without much to say besides that those fruits are addictive since you cannot stop eating them once you open the bag here is a picture that says at least a thousand words:

Did I tell you I ate churros? I came back from Honduras with 4 extra lbs... so sad!!!

Montana and the Elk Burger

Hey, it is been a while and I gained weight dang it! I went to Honduras and ate a lot of baleadas and stuff. So, my last trip was to Montana... Kalispell to be more exact. I asked the locals what was the food of Kalispell, Montana and they told me to go to this bar and have a local hamburger. I had an Elk burger. It was not as juicy as I thought it would be. The fries were ama

zing!!!... and the waitress was mean! I still don't know her name... hehehehe. Oh well. Here is a picture of the hamburger that I posted on Facebook:

I did have some bites of my friend Jeff's hamburger though because he bought a huge juicy meat burger that he could eat only half of. I was not really hungry but the elk burger is so lean that I needed some of his burger to leave the place thinking I had hamburger.

During the week I was actually good snacking on tomatoes and almonds and eating Pea Soup from Spice Hunter for lunch. I tried some other soups too and at the hotel I had backed chicken bought at the local store, and little salami sandwiches besides more tomatoes, strawberries and fruit juices. I also drank a lot of water this time because Nick, the fitness trainer, said so. : ) I came back 1 lb lighter than when I went. Here is the picture of the pea soup also posted on Facebook.