Corner View - Staple Foods á la Chapina

Alright, so this week's Corner View is Staple Foods.

First of all, I had to look it up in a dictionary -how odd I thought my English was pretty good...

Then, I realized it was in fact, a black beans post. And a Tortilla one.
This is what people in Guate eat: Black Beans and Tortillas. In all meals, as a side dish to other foods, of course.
Is not an obligation to eat them in all meals, but they are so tasty and go with pretty much everything, people can't stop having them.
Sometimes, when food supply was low in our pantry, my mom used to say "All we have are beans" or when talking about apparent crisis "At least we'll have beans".

Black beans can be cooked in many ways. Three most popular: Boiled (parados), Blended, kind of like a soup but a bit more thick and eaten with tortillas or white bread (colados) and from a can (volteados) .
You can also have Sopa de Frijol, bean soup.
Red and white beans are usually made with chicharrón (a pork product, hmm pork scratchings?) and vegetables with rice, altogether. I tastes wonderfully good (except for the pork thing).

Now, you may notice that my photo has other stuff too. Aguacate (avocado). I can't stop having avocado. I just love it. It tastes too good and goes with anything.
Right next to it is a chirmol. Chirmol is made of tomatoes, onion and lemon juice.

All of them together, made excellent tacos. People usually have chicken or any other kind of meat in their tacos. I am a vegetarian, sorry no chicken on the tacos (unless it was alive and I had no intentions of eating such tacos...)

I think its a very latino thing to mix everything up. We usually like foods that a)go with everything or b)are already mixed with everything.

For more food around the corner, visit Jane.
Happy week!


P.S. Almost forgot. "Chapina" means Guatemalan. Is the way we refer to Guatemalan people, products or anything. For male is Chapín, for female Chapina.