FOOD!!!!

So this is going to be all about food! One of my biggest concerns before I came here was that there would be tons and tons of meat, which i am not use to. Turns out we do eat more meat then i´m use to but it´s not overwhelming. 


For breakfast we have milk with chocolate powder or yogurt, but the yogurt is drinkable. Sometimes there is cereal and there is always crackers or tostados to eat with jam or honey. 


Then after school at around 1:30 we eat lunch, it´s always a hot meal that my host mother makes. Examples of what we eat are hamburger patties and a vegetable like zucchini, tomatoes, beets, potatoes, squash or corn. But there is not always vegetables sometimes it will be spaghetti or gnocchi. My family also has a deep fryer so sometimes my host mom fries veggies which i´m honestly not a huge fan of. On the weekends for lunch it´s common that we have fried meat or fish and french fries, which for me is just too much fried food, but it tastes good!


Dinner during the weekdays is simple: hotdogs, rice pudding, leftovers, noodles, pizza and we usually don´t all sit down together to eat it we just eat while we continue doing what we were doing. 


During the weekends is when we eat more meat, we always have asado, which is the traditional way of cooking meat and it is grilled slowly and is very good! With Asado it´s common to have saled or tomatoes. 


Its also common to have a snack between lunch and dinner on the weekends sometimes we have mate too (traditional tea made from the yerba mate plant). And then crackers with cheese or dulce de leche. 


A lot of the desserts here involve dulce de leche, which is kind of like spreadable carmel! Its super good and super bad for you! common desserts are bread pudding with dulce de leche on top, or what i would describe as a casserole but in dessert form, with cookies and dulce de leche and meringue and chocolate and then layered on top of each other. And my host dads mother makes really good fruit saled, but its really different then fruit saled at home. The fruit is in very small pieces and the apple is shredded and then there is a lot of juice so its like a soup but i really like it! 


We don´t have fruit very often at my house here and if we do the boys eat it fast, so last week before going to my cello class I bought a banana! Here there are separate stores for fruits an vegetables and then there is other stores with just meat and others with all the packaged food. 


Here are pictures of the food!

Here is Dulce de Leche and milk, the milk comes in bags and same with the yogurt!

Bread and crackers and tostados!

                                Mate 

My host father preparing the Asado!

The oven where the      meat is cooked!

Asado with saled and tomatoes, and there is always bread at every meal too.

The soda bottles are returnable here and then it costs less, its like lochmead milk in Oregon!

Juice is never real juice but powder added to water

                                              Oats

Then we use the oats to make these. Its oats dulce de leche, coco powder, and butter! and sometimes they make a cake sort of with layers of this between crackers, its really good!

Yummy!!! This was from a restaurant that I went to with some of the AFS exchange girls the other day!

These are peanuts cooked in sugar, they are sold on the streets in little carts. Also Churros with Dulce de leche inside are sold in carts with bikes atached. I tried the Churros once but they were really oily tasting, they weren´t very fresh.

These are criollitos they are soooo good!