Avellanas.
Avellanas are hazelnuts. And you know hazelnuts (or filberts as I used to call them). Tasty and creamy, nutty and a good addition to chocolate to make the delicious and transfat-rich Nutella.
And they look like this: (and by the way, I got them from one of my favorite tostadurías (el Mataquito) for semi-interesting [...]
Where our protagonist goes to the supermarket with one idea for birthday cupcake decoration and comes out surprisingly Chilenized.
I had my first Chilean linguistic/cultural confusion in a long time a few weeks ago. In keeping with what a fabulous time my niece and I had had making and decorating cupcakes for the family when [...]
Sometimes I receive comments that make me shake my head in a “what was that” kind of movement. Sometime you say things that make me say “yay” or actually snicker out loud. And sometimes I get a bit of a challenge.
The other day, I wrote about bagels in Santiago. And Dorothee, one [...]
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