Today, I went to class, headed home for lunch, then worked on homework til we were supposed to meet up at the Museo Inka (Inca Museum) at 3pm. The museum, also known as the Archaeological Museum of Cusco, contains artifacts that trace Peruvian history from pre-Inca civilizations and Inca culture to the impact of the Conquest and colonial times on these native cultures.
The building was once the palace of Admiral Francisco Aldrete Maldonado and is a colonial mansion built in the 17th century. The museum contains Inca mummies, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, qeros (large, wooden drinking vessels) and more.
After our two-hour tour, I walked to McDonald's to wait for our 6:45pm cooking class at Amauta and got a sandwich, unsure of how much food we'd actually be able to eat after the class (I hate eating McDonald's in the States, but it's somewhat better here, has wifi, and is cheap and close to the school so I've gone a few times). I've been eagerly awaiting a cooking class in Peru; El Sol offered them, but they cost 30 soles and we had other plans during both classes. We learned how to make aji de gallina, a spicy dish consisting of chicken, aji (a popular yellow pepper here), olives, lettuce, rice and egg.
They brought a stove outside and demonstrated how to cook the dish.
I volunteered to help along with Alison and Andres, and we mostly peeled chicken into small strips and stirred the pot a bit on the stove. Since I was helping, I was too busy to really pay attention to how she prepared the meal, but once the chicken and spices were mixed, she put everything into a blender. The dish is served with the rice and lettuce on the bottom, followed by the chicken mixture, then egg and olive on the top.
She made it very, very mild and there was plenty for us to enjoy (in fact, it was more than I could eat) since a lot of people opted out of the activity.
The building was once the palace of Admiral Francisco Aldrete Maldonado and is a colonial mansion built in the 17th century. The museum contains Inca mummies, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, qeros (large, wooden drinking vessels) and more.
After our two-hour tour, I walked to McDonald's to wait for our 6:45pm cooking class at Amauta and got a sandwich, unsure of how much food we'd actually be able to eat after the class (I hate eating McDonald's in the States, but it's somewhat better here, has wifi, and is cheap and close to the school so I've gone a few times). I've been eagerly awaiting a cooking class in Peru; El Sol offered them, but they cost 30 soles and we had other plans during both classes. We learned how to make aji de gallina, a spicy dish consisting of chicken, aji (a popular yellow pepper here), olives, lettuce, rice and egg.
I wasn't feeling too adventurous afterwards, so I went home, relaxed and was asleep by 11.
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