Ouch!

Jamaican me crazy

The New Media team in Amsterdam makes evil cocktails ...

Going to Berlin, have to try this!

Last night we went to MaoThai to have some nice dinner and we both agreed, that this is one of the finest Thai restaurants we know. The food was superb and the ambience was great! We cannot recommend more this place!!!

If you come to Berlin, please give this restaurant a try! It's located at Wörther Straße, in the Prenzlauer Berg.

This is the end, my friend ...

The return to Amsterdam also means the end of red meat for a while! The excess of red meat and rich food (typical argentinean diet is steak and some veggies -from time to time- and the icecream is great) meant that I am a few kg over. Also, due to the argentinean peso devaluation (at the moment of writing this post, 1 € = 3.35 peso), the wine is really cheap and you can find very good wines over there.

Anyways ... it's over now, we have to return to a semi-vegetarian diet (which is not bad at all).

Making eyes to get some drinks

Yes, that's what Danielle did to get some alcohol yesterday evening ... We went to a bar with my sister Ana and we wanted to have some Drambuie (Trina and Zhiron, you know us ... it was in your honor) or some other strong stuff. Since they didn't have any Drammie (ignorants) Danielle went to the counter and started making eyes to the barman ... she came back with two drinks for men, since that's what she asked. Hesperidina and Sambuca.

Maybe that's what I have to start doing to get some good drinks as well ... except that I don't think it will work as well as with Danielle ;-)

Why do we eat?

Since we arrived in Argentina, we have been converted in eating machines. Non-stop-glutony has been the guiding motto for Danielle and I -or so it seems-.

My mother cooks for an army and it's only her and my father living at home. It seems that she still believes that we (my two sisters and I) are still living there, and that we are still teens (meaning that we are growing and we are still eating for it) and all our friends still come home after school to have dinner with us. We had pasta, pizza, asado, fish, more meat, more fish, more pasta ... and ... uh ... no more pizza, only once :)

Food is traditionally based on meat in Argentina, since this country has very large extensions of land reserved for cattle. Meat is cheap and fish is expensive ... That seems like a contradiction for a country that has thousands of kilometers of coastline and direct access to very rich fishing grounds. Most of the fish is exported. Maybe it's based on some historic reason but I don't seem to find any rational explanation for it. This has meant that I have been stuffing myself with red meat. Danielle, being a vegetarian, has broken a 9 year vow and had a bite of red meat that I cooked in an asado.

Of course, living with a vegetarian in Amsterdam has meant to me that I had to reduce my consumption of red meat to nil (null, void) and suddenly getting tons of it back into my system was a bit tough ... if you get what I mean :)

So the question is ... what moves us to eat until we explode?