welcome to hungry for travel i'm carol yelverton and we're bringing it to the extraordinary galapagos islands will show you some great travel options for this special destination off the coast of ecuador well lots of whip up a brights of the shah and some local comfort food or rustic cheesy potato soup first that let's show you what all this galapagos excitement is all about with no natural predators over nine thousand species have been able to evolve and these amazing creatures have no fear of humans after a day of visiting with them and doing lots of other fun things are going to be ready for a refreshing meal cool so each day is just about perfect and it's actually pretty easy to shrimp and other just pink we don't want to see them get tough so we really have to be really careful when we cook them and i've taken two cups of the water that they were in and i've added shrimp paste to it to create tonnes of flavor and you could also boil the shells down in the water to get a richer stock if you want either way it's fine so what i have here to show you i have sliced some onion and what i did to this onion earlier is i put it into cold water with some salt i let it sit there for about five minutes and then i that makes it less bitter and then it's just going to be so much nicer and more refreshing and you don't have that bitter quality in the city show itself ok so let's get the ingredients into the bowl of it's this baby up so let's start with these beautiful on there we go and then two or three tomatoes i just did two today chopped fresh tomatoes start to mix that up pretty easy and then we start with our liquids we have two sets of liquids today so we have one cup a fresh lime juice and three quarters of a cup of orange juice so we're going to put that right again and then that shrimp broth that i told you about that's going to go in here too and everything is cooled off so there's no hot food here it's all about nice cool flavors all right so in their juice with the orange juice it's a cup of lime juice and three quarters of a cup of orange juice and then this is a little bit of a surprise but yes ketchup for putting ketchup in for a little shrimp cocktail kick and we're also going to put in foster believe it or not just about it a teaspoon full and this brown mustard is pretty similar to the kind of mustard that you're going to find sort of put a little of that in there we go our right so i think time to stir it up a little bit ok excellent now if you like a little heat you can also opinion pepper you know however much you want i'm not putting in now any and now just because you know some people don't like it with heat and so easy to add it if you want to add it so we have this going and then we're going to put our shrimp in our beautiful at that event and so this is as simple as it is ok now the other thing i'll do is a little bit of salt and pepper and some ground pepper to taste and then really what you have to do is let this sit in the refrigerator till it's nice and chilled  and you know when it's really cool just cool and cold can keep it in a while if you want to you've got your city chez so take a look at this i want to show you the finished product this is one of the most refreshing dishes you can find on a hot summer day or an evening what i love here is the just that the texture of this the shrimp is so delicious it's just the colors are beautiful the broth makes a difference and it ecuador you can see there's a lot of br that's what differentiates this from the other types of each you'll find in latin and south america so you're actually going to need a bowl to ladle all the goodness in and then you have it and it's just like one of those perfect foods tart little tart of a line but also the orange gives it a little gently sweet flavor so i hope you make it and i hope you enjoy it in the galapagos and all of ecuador you have to serve your city share with popcorn by the way it's a food pairing you want expects but it works there  lots of islands to explore in the galapagos and if you want to take in as many as you can think about a cruise line and lad national geographic offer some amazing i think that anybody that has any interest in nature actually history has it sometimes been inspired by charles darwin and what he found during his visit to the galapagos islands i certainly was this is a strange beautiful remarkable place the word unique absolutely applies here there are so many creatures that exist nowhere else on earth the proximity of these animals the degree to which they lack fear that you can just stand next to them and they just look at you or ignore you  unlike anything anywhere in the world it will never leave you a fever the drop the silence and we'll have stories for the rest of your life i promise you since my first visit to the galapagos islands in one nine hundred sixty six and i remember vividly the first time i this extraordinary place it amazes me it's the most remarkable place on earth i believe that we offer a really really compelling and interesting way to go there for a variety of reasons not the least of which is that we've been doing this for a very long back since nine hundred sixty six and so we have come to understand they either understand the opportunities understand what people are looking for i believe perhaps better than anybody out there how truly extraordinary people also stay in hotels and do day trips and you'll find dedicated scuba excursions to soup is a staple in the galapagos and really all over the door it's typically a first course for lunch and dinner let me show you the have to garlic cloves here and when i got oh to explains or so of cumin which gives it a really nice flavor and then we have our secret ingredient and i love the stuff it's called powder it comes from the pods of a south american tree and just look at this red color i mean it's just absolutely gorgeous it's a little peppery it smells just oh my gosh it's just like a pepper a sweet or like feeling of not seen here and all kinds of things it's really different and it's just a wonderful flavor so when you add this you will have a soup that taste like nothing else this is going to really change the game for you so definitely get some of that you can buy it online if you can't find it at your local market and again it's going to make a huge difference for you ok so now i'm going to let that saute for five minutes or so until the onions are softened and they're transparent and all the spices opened up now i'm going to quickly walk you through the next steps so what i got here in this pot and i left him in cold water because it's really hard to have potatoes out they tend to oxidize and lose their color but basically i have five  pounds peel potatoes and believe me they're all in here i don't know if i drag them all over for you to say but you get you get the drift of what i'm doing here so five pounds of potatoes and then two that i'm going to cover this with chicken broth some people just use the water of the potatoes but i think the chicken broth really adds a much nicer flavor to it so now we let this cook down until the potatoes are tender so i'll take five ten minutes maybe more i like to use really firm potatoes because they're just they just add so much texture they're really much nicer that way and by the way there are variations on this super ecuador every a grandmother has her own recipe so next i am going to add well actually what i'm going to do is get the the mashed up the potato masher the great potato masher and i'm going to mash these down and i want to have some chunks left but i don't need a lot of chunks going to one have kind of a creamy soup but it's nice to have some potatoes just for people to buy i didn't and then i have three cups of milk and i'm going to add now the best way to do this because we've got hot soup and cold so we put this in and then we just turn up the heat we let it all cook and start around well let it cook until it's about serving temperature and so we'll have just this rich soup beautiful soup and then we're ready to serve it we're actually going to put in about a cup of chop suey on trial cilantro ganz very popular in all south american and latin cooking as you know and then we're going to be looking for a shredded case so fresco cheese which is basically a smooth white mozzarella works perfectly here i'm putting in about a cup and a half and then once that cheese goes in and starts to melt that's when it's like all the magic happens to this and it's like it just becomes this amazing soup so we're all set to serve and good to go so here's a picture of what the finished product looks like and you can tell it is that total comfort food i was talking about it's all about that creamy gentleness of the broth the potatoes all coming together and then that cheese you know that's kind of rich stringy cheese which is just so magnificent in there and the camino and they just give it this earthy quality it just makes you feel good inside when you eat this and speaking of accio they just look at the gorgeous aren't color it's added i mean it's  incredible so you can see that i've gone ish this loco that pop us with finley sliced avocado the whites of some scallions and then some more cilantro now i like a lot of big flavor that's me and so i would actually even put some more of the garnish is on the side for people and i love contrasts so i even suis a little lemon on top too so you can have it as mild or as kicked up as you want you know people have been to the galapagos islands say that it is a totally transform experience everywhere you look you're surrounded by life and all its natural beauty there is more to find out about these islands and so we have another video for you that will show you just more sights and sounds and natural beauty of the galapagos not only is the wildlife magnificent the environment is spectacular too you'll find impressive beaches and coral reefs fascinating forests and even remnants of the volcanoes that created these islands so long ago i hope you have enjoyed your galapagos experience