We ate like kings and queens in the orphanage! The staff did their best to make meals that we would like and they did not disappoint.
Each day, approximately 3 staff members and rotating teens from the homes start cooking between 4-5am. During the school year, the teens finish between 8-9am, but during winter break they worked until at least 12-1pm.
Part of the design of the orphanage is to ease the burden of the house parents. Every day, at meal time, a bell rings, and children climb up the stairs to the kitchen where they are given components of the meal to assemble in the home. They return the empty containers at the next meal. This is a huge help for the house parents. Cooking for 15+ people x 3 meals a day would equal most of the day in the kitchen. This frees the house parents up to spend more time with the kids.
Homemade bread by the teenagers in vocational training in the bakery. Best bread EVER!
Omelet with ham and American cheese, black beans, and fried plantains.
Grilled chicken, rice, and pineapple
The famous peanut butter and jelly french toast!!!
Dinner at Pollo Campero
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On NYE, we cooked for the families and were invited to eat with them in their homes. We made salad, ghoulash, bread, and peach cobbler. It was a huge hit!!
Pineapple upside down cake we made for the houses for New Year's Day.
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