I have been in peru for 15 days now and really only in arequipa for 12 days i think. I think have finally came down with whatever stomach bacteria that wreaks havoc on gringos. For the past week or so i have had a grubling stomach but nothing bad that i thought about it.
Saturday night while walking downtown I had a Kris. Its some stupid new fruit punch like cifruit. It made my stomach upset with probably 15 minutes. I thought maybe it was the acid in the drink upsetting me. I dont really know. I felt like those really acid burps would begin. They kinda did an hour later. I ate chocolate croissants and ice cream like nothing bad would happen.
It did though. At about 3am I woke up with the feeling I had to shit and vomit. Great. I looked for a bucket outside and my stomach couldnt wait any longer. A “utility sink” became a vomit receptacle. My next trip was to the bathroom. That faired a little better.
Sunday I felt good. I decided I would make spaghetti and meat sauce. We went to the market to stock up on veggies and stuff for the week. Also got some ground beef and meat chunks. Can I note I dont like buying meat at the market. Its probably cheaper but its also always crawling with flies. This time the ground beef the woman scooped half a kilo from was sitting on top of the fridge unit instead of inside of it. Great. I really dont want to eat any more meat unless it is bought from Wong, Super, or Plaza Vea. At least when I see it in a package i feel better and well most places have raw anticuchos sitting out and thats not covered in flies so i feel better yet.
Back to the spaghetti. I got some onions and garlic together and had them going with some oil cooked them about half way then added white wine cooked them a little more but not yet all the way. I then added the simmering tomatoes to the blended with the onions and blended it all up. I like a rather smooth sauce except for the beef. I cooked the beef later added it to the sauce mixture. I added some about a half cup dry oregano, some salt and pepper, a little too much sugar, some bay leaves, anis and a few pieces of rosemary. End product was full of ground beef, boiled down nicely, but a little sweet. I made garlic bread which of course had lots of garlic. my signature and covered with grated parmesean. I died.
Now monday morning I wake up at about 9 and I am dying. I think i shit for 15 minutes. Lovely.
I hope its just a side effect of eating lots of tomato. some reason my stomach doesnt like lots of boiled tomatoes.
I´ll be praying the next 2 days.
Tags: Arequipa, flu, gripe, Lima, Perú, shits, stomach bug, white wine spaghetti sauce
