A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
The chipa. I’ve mentioned it before, it’s a cheese and cassava (tapioca) flour based bread. The word, in fact, is the Guarani word for bread, or cake. In its most historical form, it consisted of nothing more than pounded cassava (yuca/manioc) root and water, the dough wrapped around a stick and cooked over an open flame. That… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Chipa Avati
Well, it seems it’s finally happened. Sort of. Maybe. Not sure. President Fernandez extended the quarantine until September 20th. That’s the quarantine that two weeks ago he said no longer existed and that he was going to trust to people’s sense of responsibility to properly socially distance, wear masks, etc. Borders are still closed, no… Read More Qreole Steaks
We’re still in limbo on the whole quarantine or social isolation thing here. A lot of, too many, people have taken it as license to just drop it all and start partying, dinner-ing, walking around in the streets without masks, and despite admonitions from the government about penalties for doing so, it appears little, if… Read More Qream of Mushroom Soup
For those who don’t follow us on Instagram or Facebook, you may not be aware that we, like many restaurants here, have given ourselves over to the world of delivery. Obviously, given our traditional sorts of five course meals with wine, around a communal table, that’s a very different thing than we’re used to. Mostly… Read More From Our Qasa to Yours
I’m going straight to the food this time, since I gave you a quarantine update just two days ago. So let’s start with the question I often get asked when talking about this cut of pork, matambrito, just what is it? The best translation I could give you is something along the lines of a sort… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Braised Pork Flank
I’ll keep the quarantine notes light this time – extended once again, until August 16th. They didn’t roll things back as we feared they might here once again, since numbers are continuing to climb (but not exponentially, just steadily). The health ministry is now estimating we’ll hit our “peak” right around that date, in mid-August.… Read More Q Cooking – Tail On Fire
Well, we’re back into phase one of “recovery” as of yesterday. We got back our one hour a day exercise privileges… sort of. Alternate days, depending on our national ID number, though extended hours – now from 6pm until 10am. And a lot more businesses have been allowed to re-open. Food service still limited to… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Lamb Ossobuco
Oh boy, this is a long, photo intense one…. Prepare yourselves! Time for our next entry in The Bread & Soup Project! So, what do we know about Burundi? Nothing. None of us know anything about it. Admit it. It’s a small, landlocked country in the middle of Africa, bordered by Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic… Read More The Bread & Soup ProjeQt #31 – Burundi