Home made grains bread

Talking about food, today we prepared home made bread, using a recipe from a patagonian friend. It’s baked with hole wheat, rye, oats and without butter. 

It’s yummy! :D

We are also gonna start sprouting! Follow the process here

Chilean Food! Calzones Rotos!

We prepared today a fabulous recipe! Chilean Calzones Rotos! The recipe was a gift of the beautiful Hidalgo’s family.

The President speaks

Earthquake in Chile description and tales - Descripcion e historias sobre el terremoto en Chile.

Photo: Globovision

Texto en espanol debajo

The earthquake was very heavy and noisy, the people wake up, run from their houses and apartments. The buildings oscillate and house stuff shacked and fell all over. Some people lost a cup of tee other people lost everything…

Communications yesterday and today are very difficult, almost impossible. In a lot of the affected places there is no water or electricity, the government is working to regularize this situation. The highways are with problems, and some villages and cities are totally or partiality isolated.

Food and fuel: Modern life is turning to be an annoyance, people is going to the fuel stations trying to get a full tank (unnecessary, schools are suspended until the second week of March, in Santiago public transportation is working and Metro Subway is running almost normal today) Supermarkets are closed, and crazy and hungry people broke in to get food. Some supermarket companies will open this afternoon.

Communications and news from Maule and Bio Bio regions are still kaput. We are still trying to reach our friends there (Concepcion, Canete and Talcahuano)

El terremoto fue muy fuerte y ruidoso, la gente se levanto, corrio de sus camas y salio de sus casas y departamentos. Los edificios oscilaban y los utencilios de hogar se sacudian y caian. Algunos perdieron una taza de te, otros lo perdieron todo…

Las comunicaciones ayer y hoy han sido muy dificiles, casi imposibles. En varios de los lugares afectados no hay elecricidad o agua potable, el gobierno esta trabajando para regularizar esta situacion. Las carreteras presentan problemas, y algunas villas y ciudades estan total o completamente aisladas.

Alimentos y combustibles: La vida moderna se esta tornando en una molestia, algunas personas van a las estaciones de servicio buscando llenar sus vehiculos (cosa innecesaria, ya que las clases estan suspendias hasta la segunda semana de Marzo, en Santiago el transporte publico esta funcionando, y el Metro subterraneo pasa casi normalemente) los supermercados estan cerrados, gente hambrienta entro ilegalmente a sacar comida. Algunas empresas de supermercados abriran hoy en la tarde.

Comunicaciones y noticias desde la Region del Maule y Bio Bio estan kaput aun. Seguimos tratando de contactar amigos en la zona (Concepcion, Canete y Talcahuano)

Cabanaconde

Cabanaconde lives after sunset, when everybody comes down after working in the fields. Restaurants and cocinerias (small local restaurants) are full of customers. The main square also gets it’s share of women selling bread and warm beverages.

In all this area people listen to music similar to Wendy Sulca’s ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693m7iCh-TE ) You can see a lot of children happily dancing to it. You have 2 choices: get used to it or use earplugs.