I woke up extra excited today because I was going to go and cook! I had the privilege of volunteering at “El comedor infantil” to make breakfast for some of the local elementary school kids. This is a program to help provide meals for children that are underweight for their age group.Most of the children are under eight years old. The local Seventh-day Adventist church coordinates this program with financial help from a church in Denmark. Currently the children come from the Maranatha Adventist Elementary School and another nearby local public school. Tina and I also weighed and measured all of the children before their meal to track their growth. On the menu were tamales de frijoles (beans), watermelon and Arroz Piña Juice.
I have missed being in the kitchen. I enjoy cooking and baking (more so baking) but I enjoy it even more if I get to share the food with others. 
Happy was I to dive my hand into a nearly frozen tub filled with a mixture of cooked rice, pineapple skin, and cinnamon sticks to separate the ingredients in order to blend them separately, strain and then mix together again to make the Arroz Piña Juice.
I also got to learn how to make tamales wrapped in banana leaves filled with refried red beans (seems to be the choice of bean here in Honduras).The banana leaves must first be boiled and then after they are cooled the excess water must be wiped off. The large leaves are then cut into smaller pieces to wrap each tamale which are then steamed. I had to learn quickly because we needed to make about a 100 of these so that each of the 45 kids coming could have two. Cooking in mass quantities with a time constraint equals joy in my reciepe book. 
And finally the finished product:
My heart was absolutely warmed when after being served the children one by one bowed their heads, tightly closed their eyes and folded their hands to pause and pray with the others at their table to thank God for another day of life and food without any adult instruction! Oh to hear a room filled with prayers ascending to our Heavenly Father from innocent babes!
“Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
