My Favorite Meal

My most favorite meal of all time is a traditional Puerto Rican dish called bacalao con arroz which is a salted cod fish that is usually eaten with white rice or potatoes. It is kept refrigerated in the supermarket, but when purchase it is sometimes kept frozen at home. It doesn’t really have a “fishy” smell which means it will not stink up your house, but it has a smell that in unforgettable once you have tried and enjoyed it.
This dish is only for people who can take in a lot of salt in one bit because that is how salty it is. The fish is boiled in water for about an hour, I believe. That is when the smell comes out. While the fish is cooking, the rice in put into aluminum pot with water and assorted spices. My mother usually makes this when we have not eaten for a while, or when we have Puerto Rican friends come to our house for dinner and the father of that family will voluntary make it himself. So, usually I would eat it at home. One of my best friends in this school sometimes brings some bacalao that both she or her mother makes it and brings it to school and she always makes sure she brings a lot to share. This dish varies from family to family and she makes it with yellow rice instead of white. She also keeps the burned rice from the bottom of the pot which all of our friends love, but I don’t. I cannot really say if my mother’s bacalao or my friend’s bacalao is better. I haven’t had either in a while, so I don’t know.