Food

...Speaking of food, I'm waiting for my pizza to get here!!

I have a lobster I can handle making for dindin..

I really am not a fan to cooking lobster though the crab on the other hand .. no prob..

I love to play with my food ... well I used to now I like to go watch other people play..

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^ And if all that doesn't kill us - we finish our meals by guzzling down dulce de leche; a thick, sweet caramel which is present in just about everything that doesn't contain meat (and a source of immense national pride)...

Joe - we have shelves and shelves of the stuff in the supermarkets! To me it all tastes pretty similar but it is obviously big business:

But, can I find it here in the UK? Can I bollocks!!!

¡Ay, ay, ay! I must be missing home. Mi Buenos Aires querida. I'm currently in Europe for the next few months. Been here about 4 weeks now.

Food is very evocative, no? Supposedly taste and smell are more likely to induce memory than the other senses. And I've been dreaming about empanadas...

These little pockets of pleasure are ubiquitous in Argentina. I have them several times a week. Essentially, for those who don't know, they are little pastry pies. Traditionally they are filled with beef (no surprise!), but nowadays they come in a variety of fillings and are on almost every menu in my city. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of empanda only take-out places too. (Including Solo Empanadas - which also sells sandwiches )

Because they are all the same size and prepared the same way, most places have a little picture-guide with the different ways of sealing them (then you can tell your carne picanté from your queso y cebolla). For example:

And if you order-in they'll some wrapped up in paper on a little tray like this. So then you can then pick your ones out from these different repulgues in the pastry:

This isn't typical empanada behaviour:

:woot: :woot:

Thought you might be interested in these:

Comedy gold..(?)

And then when they all got together...

Not hungry anymore!

I LOVE FOOD!!...

And then when they all got together...

German stuff (or more likely swabian stuff)

Maultaschen (=mouthbags)

in the soup:

fried:

Linsen with Spaetzle and Saitenwuerstle (no idea if any English term exists)

Brezeln (=pretzels)

It all looks a little weird on these pictures but this stuff taste so good

There's manym oreb ut i didn't find pictures right now.

Not hungry anymore!

It put this fellow off of his dinner too..!

^

You can't make an omelette, etc...

LOL .

Mmmmm:

I've become slightly besotted with the 'English Breakfast' since I've been travelling here. You couldn't have it every day (well you could, but maybe you wouldn't last too long), but it's fine fodder for a weekend.

There are many variations of it - and the purists will argue endlessly on the inclusion of certain elements - but for me it's:

Some people lobby for the inclusion of Baked Beans (not for me :yuckky: I consider them the devil's spunk), or the omission of Mushrooms. Toast or Fried Bread is a point of contention too, apparently - Hell, have both! But look at it, it's magnificent:

However you have it though, you have to have it with this:

Then, I suggest, a nice long constitutional walk...

^ No takers? Just me then... It's just that we don't really do breakfast in Buenos Aires - it's mostly coffee and cigarettes! - so I remain enchanted by these calorific monsters!

But, when one is in the mood I like to take a café con leche and some medialunas - sweet little pastries...

Mmmmm:

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