The food... what we didn't expect.

While we have been in Santiago we have had to rediscover cooking food. The food here actually is ok and most of it is also easily found in the states. However, it's been hard remembering what we used to eat and how we cooked it. Maybe it's the lack of our familiar and usable kitchen utensils and tools (like our amazing Crock Pot) or it's just some food looking different down here. Either way, we wanted to post about some of the food we've found and other food related items.

A few of our new favorites here have included: empanadas, empanadas, and more empanadas. As most people will tell you, they are delicious . We've also made ravioli, other pasta dishes, beans and rice, and from the staged photo below we splurged with a familiar brand: Domino's pizza. Despite our "fun" with Dominos, we don't eat out, except for our empanadas, and the making things from scratch has been a strange surprise.

An early version of our pantry - pasta, a box of jello, bread, and a can of tuna



This was supposed to be a fun box of Maccaroni and Cheese - it was actually terrible . It tasted like smelly feet with rotten cheese on them.

The staged Dominos overdose
NOTE: J doesn't really sleep with Diet Coke and Pizza

Another fun food adventure was J getting out a banana to eat with his cereal when he realized it was a freak, Siamese banana. Yes, there were actually two bananas that had grown together. They were Siamese, or Conjoined Twin Bananas. We nicknamed it the Two Headed Banana Beast.

Meet the Beast

2 for the price of 1!

The fruit here is really good! Actually, most of the fruit in the winter in the US comes from Chile. We have enjoyed many good apples, bananas (except the Two Headed Banana Beast), lots of avocados, blueberries, nectarines, peaches, and strawberries.

We also make sure to drink a lot of water, and the various flavors of Tang. Note C attacking a giant bottle of water during her dinner.


We are now pretty well adjusted with how to cook here and are doing much better with the food culture shock. Here's to more empanadas, more avocados, more Tang, and more turkey and cheese sandwiches!