I promised, and I’m delivering, as did several local spots. We may not be able to go out to eat at restaurants, but I’m also not going to give up on both trying new spots (or re-trying old ones). We’re aiming for delivery roughly twice a week – usually once for lunch, once for dinner.… Read More More From Outside the Qasa
While cases of C-19 continue to rise here, they’re rising more or less steadily at the same numbers every day. Have we plateaued? Hard to say yet, but our fingers are all crossed. The mortality rate overall is going down… slowly, but going down, and the recovery rate, obviously, is rising in tandem. They’re still… Read More More Qans of Beer!
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
I almost don’t even want to explore where things are at in the quarantine here in BA anymore. Suffice it to say, we’re still in it. Some loosening of restrictions, but not very much, and there’s disagreement over where the numbers are headed, so one day the talking heads are saying we’re proceeding cautiously with… Read More Some Qans of Beer
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
Day 115. Yup, we’re still here in quarantine. Is the renewed lockdown working? Probably too soon to be sure, though the daily rise in cases, while it continues, seems to be slowing, and the mortality rate is definitely declining, so there’s hope. As scheduled, we have another nine days, until next Friday – I have… Read More Qasa SaltShaker – Pan Chapla