Sorry there aren’t going to be loads of pictures; there were lots of people from both families mingling, and I didn’t want to be taking photos of food and bbqing, I was having loads of fun meeting new people and trying new things and working on learning elementary Spanish!
Leonel (Felipe’s dad) had Chilean lomo y Argentine lomo so we could taste the difference. Argentine lomo is outstanding. Chilean lomo is still pretty good, but man, Argentine has that special beefiness. It’s all flavor!
The sausages were insane. No mustard, nothing on them, just sausages in rolls. They were offered offhandedly, like, "Oh, here, have a sausage." Okay, can I have three please?
There is a strong German influence on Chile, and the beer is really good, like US craft and microbrew good. This is a lager that could have come from anywhere in the Fatherland. Reinheitsgebot stuff.
Quail eggs. Carmen’s (Felipe’s mom) brother has a farm and he raises quail. So... quail eggs. They taste like free range chicken eggs. The sauce is ketchup and mayo.
Other stuff that that didn’t make the pictures: Carmen grows aji peppers, the Peruvian ones. Damn, I said to myself several times to get a snap, but I didn’t. We blew through about a dozen bottles of Chilean wine. They drink a lot of wine in Chile. There’s a grape that was lost to the world about 150 years ago, Carménère, that was rediscovered in Chile in the ‘90s; it’s a Cabernet variety. After dinner Leonel broke out the Bulliet and we shared baby pictures of the kids and did our best to embarrass them. I think this family is going to work just fine!
Leonel (Felipe’s dad) had Chilean lomo y Argentine lomo so we could taste the difference. Argentine lomo is outstanding. Chilean lomo is still pretty good, but man, Argentine has that special beefiness. It’s all flavor!
The sausages were insane. No mustard, nothing on them, just sausages in rolls. They were offered offhandedly, like, "Oh, here, have a sausage." Okay, can I have three please?
There is a strong German influence on Chile, and the beer is really good, like US craft and microbrew good. This is a lager that could have come from anywhere in the Fatherland. Reinheitsgebot stuff.
Quail eggs. Carmen’s (Felipe’s mom) brother has a farm and he raises quail. So... quail eggs. They taste like free range chicken eggs. The sauce is ketchup and mayo.
Other stuff that that didn’t make the pictures: Carmen grows aji peppers, the Peruvian ones. Damn, I said to myself several times to get a snap, but I didn’t. We blew through about a dozen bottles of Chilean wine. They drink a lot of wine in Chile. There’s a grape that was lost to the world about 150 years ago, Carménère, that was rediscovered in Chile in the ‘90s; it’s a Cabernet variety. After dinner Leonel broke out the Bulliet and we shared baby pictures of the kids and did our best to embarrass them. I think this family is going to work just fine!
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