Friday, December 22, 2006
Food, food, glorious food!
The sweet stuff first...I have tried some interesting local junk. Chorro is a donut like batter deep fried as a 6" hollow tube and filled with condensed milk caramel. It is then rolled in sugar. It doesn't taste like a donut though - more like a hot chip filled with caramel. Quite a weird combination but good - especially if just made and still hot. Another biscuit like cake they eat (forgotton the name) is made of layers of sweet biscuit with caramel between each layer. It is about 2" thick, 4" square and you slice into 4-6 pieces. Caramel seems to be a cheap and popular sweet.
At home Paola and Violetta (her home help) have fed me some wonderful food, all of which I forget the names of, but with LOTS of chilli and lime. A great condiment! One of the best is a sauce you serve in generous amounts over slices of boiled potatoes with lettuce on the side. The sauce is made of special yellow chillis, cream, stacks of white and blue cheese, and soda crackers (the equivalent of Saos at home) to thicken it. All this is put in the blender and then served. It must be eaten the day it is made. The more chillis the hotter, of course. Bring it on....
Paola also loves to make Italian and she made the best cream, cheese, bacon and mushroom sauce...and Andrew whipped up a delicious Pad Thai one night. Paola and I went to get fresh seafood and paid an incredible AUD$15/kg for fresh jumbo king prawns.
I can see the kilos piling on.
They also drink some great Spanish wines. Spanish and Oz wines seem to be the vintages of choice although Andrew said he also buys Chillian wine for quaffing. Andrew also likes his Whisky and they drink Pisco - a white brandy - Pisco Sour is the national drink and on every menu.
The sweet stuff first...I have tried some interesting local junk. Chorro is a donut like batter deep fried as a 6" hollow tube and filled with condensed milk caramel. It is then rolled in sugar. It doesn't taste like a donut though - more like a hot chip filled with caramel. Quite a weird combination but good - especially if just made and still hot. Another biscuit like cake they eat (forgotton the name) is made of layers of sweet biscuit with caramel between each layer. It is about 2" thick, 4" square and you slice into 4-6 pieces. Caramel seems to be a cheap and popular sweet.
At home Paola and Violetta (her home help) have fed me some wonderful food, all of which I forget the names of, but with LOTS of chilli and lime. A great condiment! One of the best is a sauce you serve in generous amounts over slices of boiled potatoes with lettuce on the side. The sauce is made of special yellow chillis, cream, stacks of white and blue cheese, and soda crackers (the equivalent of Saos at home) to thicken it. All this is put in the blender and then served. It must be eaten the day it is made. The more chillis the hotter, of course. Bring it on....
Paola also loves to make Italian and she made the best cream, cheese, bacon and mushroom sauce...and Andrew whipped up a delicious Pad Thai one night. Paola and I went to get fresh seafood and paid an incredible AUD$15/kg for fresh jumbo king prawns.
I can see the kilos piling on.
They also drink some great Spanish wines. Spanish and Oz wines seem to be the vintages of choice although Andrew said he also buys Chillian wine for quaffing. Andrew also likes his Whisky and they drink Pisco - a white brandy - Pisco Sour is the national drink and on every menu.
# posted by The Essence of Good Taste @ 3:54 PM 
