One of the best things about my stay in Argentina was the great food, and we had lots of it! The average Argentine eats 4 meals a day, so we spent a lot of time while we were out eating. For desayuno (breakfast) I ate a light meal of rolls and jam with milk. It wasn’t much, but the rolls were super sweet and tasty.
Out on the street, we realized that you can buy pizza almost ANYWHERE, and in some places you could even show with your hands how big a slice you wanted and pay by the gram! On our first day I got a slice as big as I could afford (to make up for the small breakfast). The bread was thick and soft, with plenty of gooey cheese and delicious toppings. Another thing we had plenty of was pasta-or, rather, pasta sauce, which usually outweighed the actual pasta! I always ate mine with red meat sauce, so it tasted more like spaghetti.
We also had some more traditional foods, like empanadas, which are small pies filled with all types of filling like ham, cheese and meat. Since Argentinean empanadas are really small, we could eat 7 or 8 at once as a normal meal or snack.
For lunch we had milanesas, a thin breaded meat normally served like a sandwich in fast-food joints.
Above all else, I HAVE to talk about beef. It was served at every cena (dinner) and is served in many different ways. We tried Bife a caballo (beef on horseback), or steak topped with an egg, and Parrillada, which is blood sausage, ribs and other meat grilled together. We even gathered in a restaurant at the end of our last day to eat a common food called asado con cuero, or whole beef roasted, complete with hide and hair (We got to see how they cook it. Not so cool). It tastes a lot better than it sounds.
All in all, I really enjoyed all the food in Argentina. I hope the next place we visit will have another diverse (and delicious) array of foods like the ones here. I can’t wait to try them!
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