Miscellanea
This past week was pretty calm so I don't have tons to tell the world, but here's some random stuff.
Our kitchenette cooking adventures continue. On Saturday night we cooked eggplant parmesan in our toaster oven (I tried to post a pic but I guess blogger doesn't like me to upload photos in Peru. I'll have to fix that). Our "baking dish" was a silicone loaf plan that we brought from California, and to make things even more exciting our two-burner counter-top stove ran out of gas as we started to cook the sauce. Fortunately, our tiny oven happens to have a "stove top" feature--the heating coil in the oven heats up the top of the oven for cooking. So we continued the sauce-making process there. After baking the breaded eggplant slices in the oven, we layered up the dish and popped the whole thing in for about 40 minutes. And presto! We soon had a delicious meal. Along with the parm we ate fresh bread and drank decent wine we had just purchased from our neighborhood italian shop, and it was great. What more could you ask for on a Saturday night?
In other food and drink news, we found normal milk at the supermarket, thanks to our ex-pat academic friends. It turns out the local agricultural university sells un-ultra pasteurized milk, but the grocery store doesn't have it all the time. Taylor is hooked and will be using it for his cereal as much as he can. I didn't bring myself to try it until today, 'cause its whole milk and that still squicks me out a little, but I can confirm that it does in fact taste like normal milk. However, right now I'm used to my yogurt and granola in the mornings, so I think I'll stick with that until we get back to the land of 1%.
On Saturday morning I visited and joined South American Explorers Club, to help me plan my 2 week trip next month and also more excursions outside of Lima. It looks like Taylor, Heidi and I will be traveling together the last week in March, and then I'll go by myself to Cusco and to do the Inca Trail--after much wavering back and forth, I decided just to go ahead and sign up for it. I'm excited that things are coming together!
Well, with 2 paragraphs on food and 1 paragraph on travel planning, I think that covers my priorities for the moment. Buenas noches!
Our kitchenette cooking adventures continue. On Saturday night we cooked eggplant parmesan in our toaster oven (I tried to post a pic but I guess blogger doesn't like me to upload photos in Peru. I'll have to fix that). Our "baking dish" was a silicone loaf plan that we brought from California, and to make things even more exciting our two-burner counter-top stove ran out of gas as we started to cook the sauce. Fortunately, our tiny oven happens to have a "stove top" feature--the heating coil in the oven heats up the top of the oven for cooking. So we continued the sauce-making process there. After baking the breaded eggplant slices in the oven, we layered up the dish and popped the whole thing in for about 40 minutes. And presto! We soon had a delicious meal. Along with the parm we ate fresh bread and drank decent wine we had just purchased from our neighborhood italian shop, and it was great. What more could you ask for on a Saturday night?
In other food and drink news, we found normal milk at the supermarket, thanks to our ex-pat academic friends. It turns out the local agricultural university sells un-ultra pasteurized milk, but the grocery store doesn't have it all the time. Taylor is hooked and will be using it for his cereal as much as he can. I didn't bring myself to try it until today, 'cause its whole milk and that still squicks me out a little, but I can confirm that it does in fact taste like normal milk. However, right now I'm used to my yogurt and granola in the mornings, so I think I'll stick with that until we get back to the land of 1%.
On Saturday morning I visited and joined South American Explorers Club, to help me plan my 2 week trip next month and also more excursions outside of Lima. It looks like Taylor, Heidi and I will be traveling together the last week in March, and then I'll go by myself to Cusco and to do the Inca Trail--after much wavering back and forth, I decided just to go ahead and sign up for it. I'm excited that things are coming together!
Well, with 2 paragraphs on food and 1 paragraph on travel planning, I think that covers my priorities for the moment. Buenas noches!
posted by HelenO at
4:58 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Helen! So neat to hear that you are settling in to Lima. Where are you living? San Isidro? Miraflores? You are right -- be careful when on public transport and when walking around, especially when you are in Miraflores (gringo and pickpocket central.) I seldom carried a credit card with me and preferred to get money out of the ATM when I was with my (very large) male friend. I generally carried very little cash with me, about $5 at a time. Then again, I was paranoid.
Here's a few Lima eating tips (Oh how I long for the food):
-- If you havne't already, get thee some anticuchos. They have these at all the pollerias. The pollerias are pretty damn good too, but not so much good for you.
-- The alfajores at Wongs were sooooooooooooo good. Oh my god. Better than at any bakery I went to (though I never went to Casa del alfajor, which is supposed to be really good.) I was a MAJOR alfajor addict.
-- For a nice bar, try Posada de los angeles. There are three of them in Barranco, on San Martin. One was right next to my apartment, actually. These places are very chill, wonderful drinks, kind of like a coffeeshop but with alcohol. A tad on the spendy side (ie you're not just buying a liter of beer to split with people) but not crazy expensive.
-- Go to Astrid y Gaston sometime before you leave. In American dollars, you really won't spend THAT much -- about $25 a person including drinks. This place is just amazing, probably equal caliber with Chez Panisse. Wow. If I could go back, I would actually get their cookbook. It seemed so pricey since I was thinking in Peruvian soles but in retrospect, $30 for a cookbook full of recipes from one of the top three restaurants I've ever been to... worth it.
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Anonymous, at 2:41 PM
PS So funny that you went to Pachacamac and the Lomas! When I was in Lima I went to Pachacamac a bunch of times -- I can totally see how you would get lost. Also, when you get to the outer rims of the southern cone (of Lima) the transportation system becomes more confusing/erratic.
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Anonymous, at 2:44 PM
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