"Here is the small fish that I caught at zone conference while hand fishing."
"Here is a pic with me holding the small shark and some of the other fish. I gutted the shark and the other fish. It all tasted pretty good."
Excerpts from emails home 8/16/2016:
Baby crocodiles for dinner
"The pic is me holding the baby crocodiles"
"In the pick I'm putting seasoning on turtle meat. The other pick is of the finished turtle meat."
"I'm sending a picture now of the deep sea crabs that people find here when they go spear fishing."
"The other pic is of the iguana that I ate. It was in one of those nasty soups. of course...."
8/8/2016:
Fox for dinner
"This here is a pic of some fox meat I cooked up. When eating we had to be careful to not eat any small shotgun pellets. There were quite a few. Luckily I didn't bite any. Found quite a few though."
8/1/2016:
Armadillo and baby fish
"Here is an armadillo that some guy in the village caught and came to show to us. Sadly I didn't get to eat it but I still thought it was cool."
"This other pic is of something new here that I've never eaten. Those small fried things {not the large fried plantanes} are actually baby fish. Lately everyone has had them because this year happened to be the year they came out. Every few years these tiny fish can be found in the millions in the river. Eating them fried was actually pretty good. They reminded me of the homemade hash browns that mom cooks sometimes."
7/25/2016:
Sea turtle egg story excerpt from Jaden's 7/12/2016 letter:
"After getting here one of the members came over to our house and asked us if we wanted to try eating sea turtle eggs. He brought us over 18 and I cooked us up some sea turtle breakfast burritos. Haha! I cooked some canned chicken to go with the eggs and the wrap. The eggs had the consistency of this type of rice I've tried before. Its called Coos Coos. I have no idea how to spell that. Haha! It tasted similar to chicken eggs though. I think those eggs are illegal to eat in nearly all other parts of the world. However, in Kunayala anything is fair game."
More sea turtle egg pics Jaden sent 7/25/2016:
"This other pic is of the turtle eggs before cooking them."
"It's me cooking the turtle eggs."
"I'm attaching a photo of my sea turtle breakfast burrito"
Shark story excerpt from Jaden's 7/18/2016 letter:
"The member I have mentioned in other posts named Fran came to our house this morning. He told us last night after sharing a message with his family that he was going to leave early in the morning to go fish for shark. He said that if god was kind enough to help him have success he would give us some. Sure enough..he stayed true to his word and brought us some. Something I love about these people is that they realize the more they give the more blessings they receive. Its ingrained in their culture since Ibe Orgum also known as Jesus Christ came down and taught it to them. That shark was really good by the way. Probably the best fish I have ever had."
"Here is a picture of some of the shark meat that we were given. It was really good!"
"Here is a pic of the crabs that we caught before and after cooking"
"I have attached a ton of pictures of those crabs. I just thought it was crazy and wanted you guys to see them. They were pretty good. Eating them is exactly the same as the Maryland ones. There is meat inside the claws and the body. They are petty good. The only thing missing, butter. I keep trying to find butter here but hey never have it. My comp only ate two so I ate all the rest. I'm sure you could imagine that I sat there a long time but wasn't complaining. I got every piece of meat out possible. In each of the legs as well. Haha! I probably became the number 1 predator of those things."
"I'm sending a pick of some fish {do le masee}. In this soup, they didn't even gut the fish. It was pretty gross but its not uncommon for them to just cook entire fish without cleaning them first. It was kind of gross."
7/13/2016:
"I'm sending here a picture I took that Fran gave us after the service we did in the jungle. He gave us rabbit soup."
7/6/2016:
"One of these pictures is of a pig tail that I ate with rice. That was kind of gross. They told me it was the tip of the tail. I honestly thought it kind of looked liked the weiner. The very tip had hair on it. Haha!! Gross huh."
"This here is a picture with a closer up veiw of that soup I was eating in the other picture of me at the celebration we got invited to. The soup is called Do/le/masee. I have no idea how to spell it, thats just how it sounds. Haha! Its okay. Its composed of cooked plantanes and whatever else they decide to thrown in. Essentially just a soup. In this case, on the spoon you can see a chunk of tuna that they caught and threw in."
"Here are the before and after pics of that rabbit that I cooked. They just cut off a leg and gave it to us. I boiled it first then cooked it on a frying pan with soy sauce, cajun seasoning, salt, pepper, mcormick steak seasoning and a little bit of oil. It was really good. I tried the meat right after boiling it and it had a texture and flavor similar to that of a boiled pork chop"
7/4/2016:
"This picture is of all the fruit that people gave us in one day. The purple looking one is a new fruit I had never tried before. It had a texture similar to that of a boiled egg. Tasted kind of milky. Its white on the inside. I don't remember the name though."
"Here is a pic [of a fish] that a member gave us. We got it from the guy named Fran."
6/29/2016:
"Also, this is a pic of an animal that some villagers caught in the jungle. Its freakn huge and I thought it was a dog. However, look at the feet. They told us its a massive raccoon. We ended up watching them prepare the meat. I thought that was interesting."
"The animal was boiled to get the fur off. It was grey before and they said had the characteristic mask looking thing on the face that raccoons have."
- Elder Jaden Hawes
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