Archive for March 2008
High Winds=Bad for Plants
The wind in Patagonia, Argentina can be somethin’ fierce. Witness the whipped trees, barren lands, and flying ladies. In ...
Food Foraging towards Chile
On bicycle from Bariloche, Argentina to the Chilean border 50 km ...
Hop! Hops!
Hops, the long and lovely vine whose flowers are used to make ...
Patagonian Plants! Hello, Mullein.
I’d say “Clown’s lungwart” doesn’t sound like something you’d want to drink, but the lovely (and more commonly called) Mullein plant is actually a rather prolific weed hereabouts in the sunny, sandy soils of Patagonia, Argentina. Made into a tea, it’s an excellent remedy for ...
Camp Soup
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post a good recipe, but I’d like to share one from the riverside banks of a spot somewhere near Foyel, Argentina.
In a pot, fry up some onion. Add a pinch of tumeric ...
First Dessert in Argentina
Yum: let’s take a traditional cheese pastry recipe from Salta, Argentina, and wrap a popular chocolate candy inside before baking. Yes, please. I present, with salavation and joy, the peanut butter bonbon cheese pastry puff postre.
Sweet Sweet Sweet Potatoes
There are very few sweet potatoes in Bolivia. I would hazard, in fact, that there are none. So recently I took a seventeen hour bus ride back to Cusco, Peru, bought a lot of camote, and came back down through Bolivia to Argentina with a sack of a dozen in ...
Salt. Lots of Salt.
The southwest corner of Bolivia is one of those extraordinary places I hadn´t heard ...
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