Spring has come and it’s time put away the heavy stews, hearty soups, and starchy comfort food and have a fresh start with a more light menu. In celebration of the new season, it seemed appropriate to make one of the richest pastas on the planet: Rigatoni A la Vodka or Rigavodka as I like […]
Chinese Food Hong Kong Style
Barrio Chino has tons of restaurants to choose from. Some good, some bad, some with chicken feet displayed in the window, and others with empanadas and milanesas on the menu. Hong Kong Style offers a huge variety of the greasy Chinese food persuasion that I hold so dear to my heart. The menu includes pages and […]
Tea Connection Time: Un Café de Té
The Best Pizza in Buenos Aires: Siamo Nel Forno
Surprising to many locals who have a life-long devoted loyalty to their favorite dish, Argentina is known by many to serve some pretty awful pizza. Some have even go far to say that it’s one of the worst pizza in the world. Oh, but how can you go wrong with dough + cheese + grease, might […]
Product of the Day: Oreo Alfajor
When I was little, I was never allowed to eat crap. While my friends had pantries and freezers full of fruit by the foot, gushers and bagel bites, I only had matzah, health cereal and a bottle of diluted Mott’s apple juice, because apparently the regular kind has “too much sugar.” Since all food containing […]
Protected: Test: A Love Letter to a Lamb Empanada
Prediction 2011: Frozen Yogurt Mania to hit Buenos Aires
Have some more sloppy joes. I made them extra sloppy for you
Is it possible to mention the words sloppy joe and not make a SNL/Billy Madison/Adam Sandler reference? I’ve had this American staple only once in my life, this year, in Argentina… eating something called a “sloppy joe” grossed me out and just thinking about the hamburger helper type meat just didn’t seem Kosher. But boy […]
Snack of the Day – Sesame Wheat Crackers
Sesame Wheat Crackers are da bomb. Cheap, delicious, “healthy,” and crazily addictive. If you have absolutely zero self control like me, you will easily eat your way through the whole package in one sitting. Made by the Granix company, that has a line of several types of crackers and cookies (even a vegetarian tenedor libre […]