Recipes

Parrilla el 22 you have now been replaced as my weekend lunch spot.  Yes, I will miss your porteño charisma and cheesy provoletas con papas provencal but this girl is crossing Cordoba for her Saturday afternoon treat. Not only is the tree lined Palermo block a beauty but their prices are...

Yesterday while shopping at the verduleria I was craving carbs so I decided to sandwich it up with some castiron veggies! For those of you who don’t have a castiron in the kitchen, I HIGHLY recommend getting one asap, it’ll change your life. I do just about everything in castiron-...

Last year I had the privilege of spending my 26th birthday island hoping on Bocas del Toro. Bocas is located about 30 km south of Costa Rica on the Caribbean coast and is overflowing with banana plantations, tropical cuisine, pelicans, desolate beaches and the BEST hot sauce I’ve ever had. I...

Back in 2005 I spent the summer in the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, an experience that opened my eyes to a whole new way of life. Por suerte I have been able to return to Costa Rica on several occasions but this last trip was the first time I made it...

The streets of Buenos Aires are overflowing with panaderías, stocking their shelves with medialunas, imposter french baguettes, pepitas and much much more.  La Argentina is a family based panadería y confitería offering exceptional breads along with a variety of tasty sandwiches and pastries. My first experience at La Argentina was much anticipated after my bread...

Fugazzeta is an Argentine invention, a pizza exploding with onions and mozzarella on a thick crust. Originally, fugazza comes from Northern Italy but the Argentine’s decided to add massive amounts of cheese resulting in fugazza con queso o fugazzeta There is no tomato sauce or other toppings and sometimes the...

I recently received a big bag of Hongos de Pino from the snowy Barilouche, a ski town close to Chili known for their chocolates and mushrooms. Hongos de pino aka pine mushrooms or matsutake grow in the Alto Valley of Rio Negro here in Argentina and are considered quite the...