On The Local Cuisine

Mere weeks before the beginning of this trip I encountered a life-changer. Avatar, or, as Arnold Schwarzenegger says, Abatah, tells the story of a white dude who meets up with an alien culture, and then surpasses the members of that culture in doing their own things! Great. The only problem; it's a fictional white dude. Fictional. Well, no longer! My trip goal became to become the white King of Nicaragua. They may not be so different as the Na'vi, but Nicaragua is at least pretty different from America in some ways. Plus it will be no small accomplishment, as they haven't had a king for.. well, a while. The Na'vi already had a system with a chief in place.
Anyway, the first area in which I will conquer will be the culinary arts. Will it be easy? No, but it will be less painful than the inevitable intensive tanning sessions. I figure that the first step to mastery could just be to observe some things about the food. So, here goes:
The food is pretty good, heavy on the rice and beans. Sometimes too heavy; for instance, one breakfast was a huge plate of beans and some cornflakes. But things are often much more to our tastes; the next breakfast was a huge fruit salad and some delicious cinnamon oatmeal. The fruit here is delicious and much more varied than in the States. There are bunches (pun intended) of different kinds of bananas- we usually eat bananos, I think. Delicious and huge papaya, all kinds of citrus- we haven't had any mango yet, but maybe they will be more in season soon, or maybe they just don't eat much mango in this part of Nicaragua. There're also all kinds of delicious fruit juice, including my favorite, passion fruit. Yesterday we even had corn juice. It's... well, it's not my favorite juice.
Beans are usually served with cuajada cheese, which is intensely salty. It appears to be the only cheese they eat here, and it is growing on me, but it still has some growing to do before I would eat it by itself. At least once a day, but often twice, we will have a plate of beans and rice and cuajada cheese and tortilla. Sometimes, however, our host mom, who is a great cook, will throw us for a loop. Dinner today was french fries and fried tortilla with cuajada, and yesterday we had spaghetti.
All in 3D.