nutrition of the coast growing up, I have always associated summer (aka sunny warm weather) with eating fresh fruit, especially strawberries, and for lunch not more than a salad, or some vegetables. Reasoning from my Mom: in this heat your body cannot deal with heavy food.

Well, here I am, in what is probably 10 times the humidity and the temperature we had back then, eating my 43rd "dedito de queso", a heavenly deep-fried twisted dough stick filled with cheese. Or empanadas. Deep-fried.
For breakfast patacones (from green platain), cheese and some kind of sausage. All three as deep-fried variations.
Leaves me to interesting thoughts about the wisdom of my Mom... she is a nutritionist. Or even more interesting thoughts about the Colombian coast of the Caribbean.  ¶ 6:35 PM