On the 18th of September Chile Celebrates its independence day, this year 203 years ago. 2013 is rewarded with 3 days of work, adding the weekend it is 5 days of over-eating, over-drinking, sharing, laughing and dancing.
Traditional food is the empanada and the "asado", chilean barbacue consisting of a variety of meat, bread, the semi-hot salsa "pebre" and maybe a tomato-salat. And not to forget the "Earthquake" and "Chicha". The prior been a strong drink of fernet branca and white wine and the latter a grape-beer that is traditionally mixed with toasted flour.
We in the Lira family split the celbration in 2 parts. On the 18th we made empanadas in the house of Rosa and the 19th we made tha asado at our house. Both with a vegetarian twist. Sorry to all the meat lovers, bur the enfasis of these photos are on the veggie delights...
The hour-long preparations... The dough is made the evening before and stores in the fridge over-night
Preparing a veggie empanada with corn and cheese
Home-made empanadas, some fried others oven-heated and chicha with toasted flour.
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