Don Juan's Farm

We visited a farm for two nights and the owner's name was Don Juan. At one point we got to take a tour of the farm. Our guide, Roberto, had to speak translate for us because Don spoke very little English. On the tour, Don showed us many plants including a coco bean tree, which doesn't look anything like chocolate by the way. He even tricked us into having terrible tasting plants. Twice! One was extremely spicy, called amanato. The second thing that he fed us smelled like crap. However, we got to eat some things that didn't taste too bad. Spinich, which didn't tase anything like the way my mom cooks it, thank god. We also got to eat the coco bean. The third thing we got to taste was sugar cane. The juice tasted like canalope juice with sugar. The inside of the skin didn't taste like anything but Roberto said it was good for cleaning teeth. The inside seed tasted like a blast of sugar that you couldn't bite down on because it was too slipery. The inside of hat seed tasted a tiny bit like chocolate but not that much. Some of the things that we got to do on the farm were fertilize some plants and feed some cows. Don had three cows. Two of them actually being alive with one of the cows pregnant. Some of the food was like nothing I had ever tasted before. The rice that wa served there had such a different taste than rice I would eat at home, it was much better. We also had chicken with an O.K. sauce on it. My fvorite dish however, was pasta alfredo with ham and coen. I had four servings. After two days we had to go, to my sadness. It was probably one of the nicest places that we stayed at on this trip so far.