What`s For Lunch?

I am tired of eating white rice. In fact, I`m tired of eating `white`food. The Ecuadorians eat a big, hot meal around 1:00 p.m. The menu doesn`t vary much. I can pretty much predict with nearly 100% accuracy what will be served for lunch today. The meal will start off with a bowl of potato soup. It will consist of potatoes and a starch such as yucca. This will be followed by a plate of white rice, and maybe a piece of white fish and what they call a `salad`. The salad will consist of cucumber, onion or some other type of raw vegetable in a vineger dressing. Dinner is served around 7:00 p.m. and will often just be white toast with cheese. Their cheese is soft and white similar to feta, but without the flavour. Breakfast is the most colourful meal of the day; fresh fruit juice, sometimes eggs, occasionally fresh fruit, and always white toast. When you are served coffee it is a cup of hot water and a jar of instant `nescafe` and a spoon. Kind of ironic since they grow coffee in this country. Because of the climate they can grow fresh fruit here all year round. In their gardens they have bannana trees and orange trees. Their oranges are a bit bitter, sort of a cross between an orange and a lemon.