Vegetarian empanadas
Three of the middle letters in empanada form the Spanish word for this starch.
What is a tamal?
What is salad?
The Spanish word "arroz" means this white grain in English.
What is rice?
The Spanish word "queso" means this in English.
What is cheese?
The empanadas we had were vegetarianas, but if you had had an empanada de carne, it would have had this inside it.
Although tamales de cerdo are popular throughout Latin America, the tamales that we had are from this country that has a long border with the United States.
What is Mexico?
Although cabbage (repollo) is the main ingredient in ensalada de repollo, it also has some of this orange vegetable.
What is carrot or zanahoria?
What are beans?
This is the time during dinner that pastelitos de guayaba y queso are normally eaten.
What is during dessert or at the end of dinner?
Our empanadas were yellow because the dough was made out of this.
What is yellow corn?
Tamales are wrapped inside this, which you have to open up instead of eating.
What is a corn husk?
This is one of the two ingredients that give ensalada de repollo a bit of a sour taste.
What are vinegar and lime (either one)?
What is the arroz?
This island country in the Caribbean Sea is where pastelitos de guayaba y queso may have first come from.
What is Cuba?
The dough for empanadas is made by pounding a grain into flour, which is called this in Spanish
What is harina?
You can have many different types of filling inside tamales, but ours were filled with cerdo, which is this kind of meat from this fat animal
What is pork from a pig?
This country in Central America, which our menu mentioned is one of the places ensalada de repollo is eaten, has a coast on the Pacific Ocean and a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that is called Mosquito Coast -- but not because of mosquitos.
What is Nicaragua?
If you plant the habichuelas, maybe it'll grow into a stalk that this fairy tale character can climb.
Who is Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk?
These pastelitos are an unusual combination because, whereas "queso" is salty, "guayaba" is this.
What is sweet?
The empanadas we had were from this country, which is the only South American country that has a coast on both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
What is Colombia?
What is Christmas?
Ensalada de repollo has tomatoes in it, which are spelled exactly the same in Spanish except for this one letter that is missing in Spanish.
What is the O?
This is a different word in Spanish for "habichuelas."
What are frijoles?
The fruit called "guayaba" in Spanish is called this in English.
What is guava?