Great Drink from Belize

I have never been much of a beer drinker...it has to be really hot weather, I have to be very thirsty and the beer has to be really cold...even in these "best conditions" I have trouble finishing a beer.....Johnny and I visited a great restaurant in San Pedro, Belize...Last night I dreamt of San Padro.....Madonna...La Isla Bonita..anyway, we had just finished a snorkeling 1/2 day trip ..swimming with Nurse Sharks, holding sting rays..incredible...saw a manatee! and it was about 1:30pm...we jumped off our dive boat in San Pedro...found a hose by a dive shop and took a hose shower ..had to get the salt off our bodies....We were famished and very thirsty ..this was the summer and the heat was smoldering...We found a place called Carambas, on the second street from the water ..signs are everywhere in San Pedro...and the locals can direct you to Carabas...we were lucky because Carabas closes for siesta from 2:00-5:00. During the day they can't run the A/C, fans are everywhere and the owner put one right on us at our table! We ordered two Lighthouse beers ..Belizian beer...Belekin is the other popular local beer), a combo. cerviche ..mixed seafood...they had several choices of cerviche on the menu) and one dinner of grilled snapper fillets, beans and rice and salad to share....While we waited for our food...I was starting to gag on the beer ..as usual..about half way through. and our wonderful waitor suggested we have some Michaladas...they also make Chiladas...I will tell about them later. Anyway, he brought out two Micheldadas and I can't believe I have never had one in the states! I love them! They are a bloody mary for the beer drinkerd...and maybe a way to get a vegetable serving in for the day!!! Here is the recipe: Take a tall glass, rimmed with salt- rub lime juice on the rim and give a spin in some margarita salt, fill it up with ice, add 1/2 tsp. of season all spice, the juice of 1/2 lime, 2 dashes of tabasco, 3 dashes of worcestershire, and fill with beer (not a dark beers.) Stir well and enjoy! Very Yummy!!!! We enjoyed our meal, two Michaladads each for about forty dollars American. vs. 80 dollars Belize...1-2 ratio...

Yummy drinks and great food. We can eat cerviche every day without getting sick of it. I like to squeeze extra lime on my cerviche, put a big scoop of it on a warm homemade tortilla chip, sprinkle a couple of dots of Marie Sharps sauce on it and down it goes....That sauce will make the lining of your mouth and lips swell and burn a bit, but, it is worth it...pain and pleasure....I hope you get to try it sometime!

It is common to speak about money like thisin Belize, "eighty dollars Belize" or "forty dollars American"...pretty simple exchange rate....even I can do it without a calculator!