domingo, 30 de noviembre de 2008

Popular dishes in Chile

The aim of this report is to give information about what people can expect to eat in Chile, especially in Santiago.
Being such a long country stretched over a variety of landscapes, Chile has a vast range of food and drink.
One of the highlights of Chilean Cuisine is its diversity of Seafood dues to its 4,270 km (2,647 miles) of coastline. Another thing not to be missed while in Chile is its high quality red wine.
Chilean food should not be confused with the spicy dishes common in Mexico. Unlike Mexican meals, the hot chili is not too frequent in Chile.

Among the most popular in Santiago we have:
Empanada de pino:typical turnover filled with diced meat, onions, olive, raisins and a piece of hard-boiled egg, baked in earthen or plain oven.
Bistec a lo pobre: beefsteak, French fries, fried onions, topped with a couple of fried eggs.
Cazuela de vacuno: beef soup with pieces of meat, potatoes, corn on the cob, carrots, onions, green beans, garlic, chunks of pumpkin, rice or noodles.
Ensalada chilena: sliced tomatoes and onions with an oil dressing.
Humitas: boiled corn leaf rolls filled with seasoned ground corn.
Pastel de choclo: a typical Chilean summer dish. Ground corn and meat, chopped onions small pieces of chicken, pieces of hard boiled egg, olive raisins - baked in clay or regular oven. Similar to a shepherd pie.
Machas a la parmesana: parmesan cheese raisor clams.
Mariscal: cold soup with all kinds of raw seafood.

The least popular dishes in this area are:
Curanto en hoyo: Traditionally prepared by heating fish, seafood, potatoes, some meat, milcaos and types of bread over red hot rocks in a hole in the ground. The food is wrapped in big leaves and then covered with dirt so that it slowly cooks over a number of hours. (Similar to a hangi in New Zealand)
Milcaos: Grated raw potato squeezed until dry then added to minced cooked potatoes and flattened to a bread-like form then baked or fried. This is one of the ingredients that can be found in a typical curanto.
They both are not popular in Santiago beacause they are typically from the South of Chile and here people do not have time to prepare such a taking long time dish.

To end it could be said that the most popular with young people could be bistec a lo pobre, beacuse young people usually like french fries, meat and eggs. Even thouhg cazuela de vacuno is very nutritious, I would not dare to say it would appeal with them beacause they do not usually like soup.
It could be a good idea they to try the variety of salad that we have here and seafood, because they are healthy but if they want to try something different I would recommend to try pastel de choclo and humitas.

lunes, 17 de noviembre de 2008

Nothing can be done to save the environment

To say that nothing can be done to save the environment seems to be rather fatalistic and categorical. Personally, I think that is a defeatist thinking and that is not really calling us to burden with enviroment. I think we all are in charge to take care of it.

Maybe it is proper ask ourselves how we can do that. Firstly, we all can start by not litter the citty, not abuse of aerosol sprays which attempt against the Ozone Layer , to own eco-friendly cars, which means that they to give off low quantities of carbon monoxide, recycling paper and glass , to keep aware of the last ways to care the environment.For example in Europe an important univerity is doing a research about how to do clothes with products that are eco-friendly with the environment. Consequently, this says to us that we can not stop in care about it what is more, we have to make efforts on it and make the people around us aware about the environment. It is a job of everyone as a collective group and personally and it should be present in every political matters as well.

To conclude I strongly think that to save the environment is a job of every of us and it is urgent to take the measures mentioned above if we want our sons and grandsons to have a place where to live.

lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2008

I am always being late at doing my college assingments

My problem is I am a very disorganized and distracted. You may think how this relations with the fact I had been late at doing my assingments. It was a very busy week and I had to do a 2 assignments per day. If we add I am very disorganized and distracted to the all of quantitty of college duties, it resulted I hardly I could do 3 of the total.
So I was almost failing in everything but luckily I had the chance to do some for a second time.

What do you think of my story? What should have done?