Hola Ciclistas!

Okay...I know you've all been there. It's your fifth week, or maybe your fiftieth...maybe more. You settle down after a long day's ride to cook a delectable, scrumptious pot of...plain rice?.....Again?.....pasta with watery sauce...Again? There has to be something better, you say! Surely there is. This is a call out to the bike roadies of WarmShowers to submit one or two (or ten, if they're good!) of your favorite bike-friendly recipes to share with the rest of us. Of particular interest are innovative ways to bake and in general cook "outside the pot". !Buen Provecho!

This was one of our favorites in Ecuador and Peru...

1 giant, super ripe PAPAYA
1 giant, super ripe MANGO or PIÑA, as available
onion
garlic
red, green and/or hot pepper
tomato
avocado
1 can tuna (optional)
1 pot rice
salt
pepper
tajin (our favorite mexican spice...anything will do)

Any other yummy fresh ingredients you can get your pedals on will work as well. Once your rice is cooked, add sauteed onion, garlic and peppers (with spices added to taste), then add drained tuna. Then pile on the tomato, avocado and chunks of your super ripe, wicked delicious looking mango (the mango/piña is crucial). Mix well. While this is surely got your taste buds drooling, take a deep breath and set it aside for a moment to cut your papaya in half lengthwise. Clean out the seeds and set one half aside, taking care not to set it on or near an anthill. Load up your new papaya bowl and dig in, making sure to get large scoops of papaya with each bite. This is made even tastier with a handful of freshly fried platanos (bananas) sprinkled on top.

Here's a picture.. Click on it to see the full version.

All hail the spatula!

You can add your recipes as comments to this posting!

Seth
thespokenroad

Today I added an automated translation feature to the site. This is mainly for people who do not speak English, as most of the site is in English.

Each story and each comment now has a "translate" button, where you can machine-translate it into any of several languages (thanks to Google). In addition, the "About Me" section of the profile page has a translate button. That way when people write "about me" in their own language, you can at least get the gist of what's being said.

If this is annoying to our members, I can change how it's set up. There are two basic goals:

1. To make member-contributed content (like their profile "About me" and items in the forums) accessible to people who speak various languages. Even though we have French and Spanish translations now, that doesn't mean that all the content in English is accessible to speakers of those languages.

2. To make more of the site accessible to people who don't speak any of our translated languages. We will probably never translate the site into Bulgarian or traditional Chinese, but readers from those languages may at least be able to get something out of the website.

I am well aware that the translations done by Google (or any translation service) are rarely good and often catastrophically horrible. But they can be better than nothing.

Let me know what you think of this. Since I'm the author of the module that we're using to do this, I can fiddle with it. If it's annoying to you, tell me how and how you would make it better.

Thanks,
-Randy

La función de búsqueda de Warmshowers.org ha sido mejorada. La opción por defecto es ahora la búsqueda de miembros (por su nombre o el nombre de la ciudad en que viven). También puedes hacer clic en las pestañas "contenido" o "nombres de usuario" para buscar un contenido o para buscar miembros por su nombre de usuario. Pruébalo.