The Doctor Estes Santiago Blog Week 5

  James Estes - Santiago, Summer 2009
  Posted on July 13th, 2009
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Here also is a list of common foods they eat here down in Chile. Fair warning, if you are a person who doesn't like meat, lots of white bread, salt, and lack of spice (not much is hot here), then Chile's food may come as a disappointment. That being said, there is plenty of good "comida" to be found here and the sandwiches can sometimes be the size of you head (as seen in the video). Food list: # a lo pobre - served with fried onions and an egg # ají - chili pepper, also a hot chili sauce # ají pebre - green hot chili sauce # anticucho - shish kebab # asado - barbeque # cazuela - soup with a little meat, one potato, one small cob of corn, chunk of zapallo, and other vegetables # chancaca - solid brown sugar # charquicán - mashed potatoes mixed with zapallo, ground beef, porotos, and corn # cochayuyo - brown alga or rockweed; a long tubular seaweed boiled and used like pasta # cocho - harina tostada mixed with hot water or milk and eaten as a hot cereal, ulpo # curanto - clambake # dulce de membrillo - fruit preserves made out of membrillos # empanadas - traditional turnover pie (de horno-baked, frito-fried, de pino-with a meat and onion filling, de queso-cheese, de mariscos-seafood) # ensalada chilena - salad of well rinsed sliced onions, sliced tomatoes, vinegar, oil dressing, cilantro, and salt # estofado - stew # fiambre - lunch meat # guatita - tripe (cow stomach) # harina tostada - toasted flour # huevos a la copa - soft boiled eggs # humitas - mashed corn wrapped in corn husks and steamed # manjar blanco - dulce de leche, sweetened condensed milk boiled until it turns caramel-like # once - "tea time" # parilladas - variety of meats cooked over a charcoal grill # pastel de choclo - similar to a shepherd pie or casserole, made with meat and layer of mashed corn # pastel de papas - similar to pastel de choclo but with a layer of mashed potatoes instead of corn, served with either sugar or salt sprinkled on top, dulce o salado # pino - ground beef with onions # pollo a lo spiedo - rotisserie chicken # puré de papas - mashed potatoes # prieta - blood and onion sausage # ulfe - type of seaweed Sandwiches & Bread # ave palta - chicken and avocado sandwich # Barros Jarpa - ham and melted cheese sandwich # Barros Luco - steak and cheese sandwich # chacarero - steak and vegetable sandwich # chicharrones - bread with baked in dried pork # churrasco - marinated steak sandwich # completos - a hot dog on a fresh baked roll with tomatoes, sauerkraut- chucrut, avocado, and mayonnaise # hallullas - "pan especial" everyday bread # marraquetas - "pan frances" another type of everyday bread # milcao - Mapuche potato bread # pan amasado - homemade bread # pan candeal - bakery-style yeast bread # pan de pascua - Christmas fruit bread, similar to fruit cake Fruits & Vegetables # alcayota - melon used to make jam # chirimoya - cherimoya or "custard apple", has a very unique flavor; tastes like a blend of papaya, pineapple and banana # choclo - corn, instead of maíz (choclo is Incan for corn) # damasco - apricot, albaricoque # frutilla - strawberry, instead of fresa # lúcuma - "eggfruit", often used in ice cream, tastes like butterscotch # maní - peanuts, instead of cacahuate # membrillo - quince # mote - special type of whole kernel corn, similar to hominy # níspero - medlar (fruit) # palta - avocado, instead of aguacate # papaya - the chilean papaya is a 5 sided yellow fruit, different from the more common tropical papaya # pepino dulce - sweet fruit-like cucumber, tastes like melon # porotos - beans, instead of frijoles # tuna - prickly pear fruit ( atún= tuna fish) # zapallo - squash, similar to pumpkin Desserts & Pastries # alfajores - pastry filled with manjar and covered in either coconut or chocolate # berlin - jelly-filled donut # borrachitos - liquor filled pastry # cabritas - popcorn, palomitas de maíz # cachos - horn shaped pastry filled with manjar # calzones rotos - fried pastry, (literally "ripped underwear") # chilenitos - pastry similar to alfajores, but covered with powdered sugar # churro - donut-like pastry rolled into a cylinder filled with manjar # cuchufli - tubular pastry filled with manjar # küchen - type of german pastry # mil hojas - multi-layered pastry or tort with manjar # panqueque - rolled crepe filled with manjar or jam # picarón - ring-shaped cruller or friter # sopaipilla - type of flat scone made with zapallo # sopaipillas pasadas - sopaipillas covered with a sweet syrupy sauce made from chancaca, traditionally made on rainy days Beverages # aguardiente - liquor, apiado-liquor in which celery has been left to steep, guindado- liquor in which cherries have been left to steep # agüita - herbal tea, té de hierbas, agua monte # bebida - soda pop, instead of gaseosa or refresco # chicha - fermented fruit juice # cola de mono - alcoholic drink made with milk, coffee, cinnamon or vanilla, and pisco # hierba mate - herb used in a hot drink, traditionally it is put into a gourd called a mate and drunk with a filtered straw # leche con plátano - milk mixed with a fresh banana # mote con huesillos - traditional chilean drink made from mote and huesillos(huesillos are literally "little bones" but they're just dried peaches # ponche - alcoholic drink made of wine and peaches in cubes # pisco - Chilean liquor made from distilling grape juice # pisco sour - pisco with lemon juice Seafood # almejas - clams # calamares - squid # camarones - shrimp # camarones grandes - prawns, gambas # centolla - Patagonian king crab # erizos - sea urchins # jaiva - crab, cangrejo # locos - different species of abalone # machas - razor clams # mejiones - mussels # ostiones - oysters # piure - a kind of shellfish (puré = mashed potatoes) # pulpo - octopus Fish # albacora - swordfish # caldillo congrio - soup with conger, onions, and potatoes # cojinova - Spanish hake # congrio - conger eel # corvina - deep-water fish, similar to Atlantic sea bass # lenguado - sole # pejerreyes - small fish similar to Arctic Norwegian whiting, sometimes called smelt # salmón - salmon # trucha - freshwater trout Hope this made you guys hungry!!

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