Empanadas

How could I not mention empanadas, the snack food of argentina???? ridiculously cheap and on the go food, it is the preferred choice of everyone for a snack. at first i didn't like them bc a lot of them had hardboiled egg in it and they were cold.

(The flavors are usually chicken, meat, veggie, mozarella). Empanadas can be baked (Salta style) or fried (Tucuman style). They may also contain ham, fish, humita (sweetcorn with white sauce) or spinach; a fruit filling is used to create a dessert empanada. Actually, just go read the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empanada. I didn't even know there was a dessert empanada. i know what my next quest will be: find that dessert empanada!

I got the chicken empanadas below from a italian place next to the ifsa office. warm, they are the empanadas i like the most so far.




This is a potato tortilla that my host mom has made a couple of times before. it is really yummy, kind of like the spanish tortilla.