Last night we had a barbecue on a make shift barbie made out of an old lorry hub and held up by rocks from the beach, with a huge heavy grill across the top. Dries had some tortilla wraps so we decided to make some meat and veg wraps for dinner. We were driven to Chañaral to go to the local supermarket to buy some meat, we ended up with about a kilogram of fillet steak and four chicken thighs. The supermarket, don't know why it was called that as it was tiny and had barely anything like vegetable meaning we had to go and find a green grocers to get some tomatoes and avocados, and some aji verde, green chilli. I was the designated chef for the night so the duties of cooking and preparing all the food was left to me, I was glad I got a chance to cook for people again but the circumstances weren't great. For a start it was pitch black with only torches and candlelight to see what I was doing. There was no chopping board so I had to use my hands and a cooking pot. There were dogs trying to get at the food the whole time, they were being real pests and starting to get on my nerves so bad that I was close to smacking them. In fact one of the dogs when my back was turned took half a steak from where I was preparing the food then acted all innocent as if I hadn't seen a thing but I knew it was him, I saw him do it, the same dog later on stole a bun so in a way had made itself a steak sandwich. I cut up the avocado into a paste, ready to spread on the tortillas, I didn't realise how many people were eating so didn't get any where near enough. Then I cut the tomatoes up and chopped the aji and put them in a pot ready for serving. Then I put the chicken on the barbie first as it had just defrosted and would take a lot longer to cook than the beef, it did, it took nearly an hour for the chicken to be ready to eat. When the chicken was nearly done I cut up the steaks into small bite size chunks and put some of them on the barbie. The food now pretty much ready it was time for people to tuck in, it tasted amazing but I had to wait ages for mine as I was still preparing some food, by the time I got to dish up the cooked meat had been eaten so I had to put some more on and all that was left was the chicken so I had to settle with a chicken wrap, was nice though, the aji was a little spicier than I expected so was pleasantly surprised. After about an hour more of drinking beer and cooking I was done, all the food had either been eaten or was on the barbie cooking, I could now rest and eat for myself. The night ended in a sort of party, the host, some of his friends and Dries and myself with lots of beer and good food and music supplied by my ipod and the hosts car speakers.