I haven’t cooked any meat on Isla, beyond reheating chicken. Buying meat at the City Deli was intimidating (you can’t see what you’re buying), I only just started going to Maz and so I haven’t explored meat buying options there too closely, and I’ve been out of propane for ages and unable to cook.<\/p>\n
Well, those of you on Facebook know that my propane was refilled last night, so I can cook! AND Isla has a brand new sparkling clean butcher shop right by the basketball court. I headed over there first thing this morning to check out what they have.<\/p>\n
I’m still fairly new to the world of meat purchasing outside of nice neat supermarket packages, or, rather, I haven’t done it in about twenty years, since I was cooking and shopping for my dad regularly. So all that to say, I had no idea what I was looking at in the display case. I therefore said that I wanted pork and chicken breasts and was told to come back around 2:00.<\/p>\n
So that’s what I did and there was more stuff in the display case. I bought 1\/4 kilo of chicken breasts (0.5 pounds, which turned out to be two BIG breasts, enough for four meals at least). I was offered some choice for the pork, but the only cut that I know is chuleta (chop) so that’s what I asked for, also 1\/4 kilo, which netted me a frozen giant bone-in chop.<\/p>\n
The chop’s in my freezer and I’m going to cook up all the chicken today because it already has a bit of an odour I’m not used to. I’m sure it’s fine, but I don’t want to delay cooking it.<\/p>\n
Total cost? 40 pesos for the chicken, 50 for the pork, for a grand total of 7.25CAD or 6.38USD… I’m going to have a heart attack at my first grocery bill back in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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