Arepas

In preparing my son for his National History Day competition today (results are at the end of the previous post), he asked me to make him arepas for breakfast. These are Venezuelan cornmeal cakes, traditionally fried and served with black beans, cheese, and other fillings. We discovered these when my dad was posted in Venezuela in the 1990's and bought an arepa press so that we don't have to fry them. This is his favorite breakfast, and they're pretty easy to make, although I'm always absent at breakfast time on weekends as I ride the Saturday N2 ride and the Sunday Bicycle Place ride.




It's not everyday that you go to any sort of County competition, so we had a good Latino breakfast and I joined the N2 ride late, only to have pancakes at my friend Kemal's house afterwards...

Some days bookend breakfasts are preferable. The ride was just gravy. Here's hoping for a dry morning tomorrow...