We celebrated the 2010 New Year with a wonderful dinner which included a 13 pound stuffed turkey, potatoes, purple yams topped with multi-colored marshmallows and ending with apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. The only thing we could not find was cranberries.
Turkey’s are very expensive here – imported ones from the USA cost over $50.00USD for a 15-17lb turkey. We opted for the Ecuadorian turkey which comes with feet, neck and head stuffed inside the turkey. Our 13 lb (6.5 kilo) Ecuadorian turkey cost us $23.00USD.
The dinner was absolutely delicious!
We celebrated a rather laid-back New Year’s Eve – none of us are ‘party-ers’ anymore. But, just wait another 10 years when Megan is 19 years old and I’ll bet she’ll be partying. Was a lot of craziness happening in Cuenca last night with lots of fireworks going off for hours before midnight.
Everything which is imported is more expensive than in the USA (one-year ‘temporary’ 22% import tax), so living in Ecuador is not much cheaper than living in Portland, Oregon, but the winter weather is much nicer.
PS Just when I was finally ready to post this, the internet went down for the remainder of Jan 1st, so here it is posted at 7am Jan 2nd.
