The week of FOOD

This week has been an absolute flurry of activity.
We've had a ton (maybe around 10 or so) people move out, either to return home, or move into an apartment or homestay.
On top of that activity, we have had such an intense week of food!
On Tuesday we had an empanada party, which, I mean how could that not be amazing?!
We have a brand new toaster oven (a huge one) that we used to bake our lil emps and one of our housekeepers brought a special stovetop oven (since our oven does not work/is too scary for anyone to light by hand.)
We bought pre-made empanada shells which are dime a dozen here and then prepared carne, steak, pollo, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, red and green peppers, cheese, garlic, basil, potato, pesto and other goodies in little bowls for do-it-yourself empanda making. It was fab. And when everyone was stuffed to the brim, ta-da! we made dessert empanadas. Although these are not technically traditional, we still wanted to try it out. We got canned peaches, carmelized/cinnamon baked apples, dark chocolate, and marmalade. Topped with ice cream, these little puppies were nervana.
After recovering from that feast, we dove into yet another one, an asado (traditional Argentine barbeque) the next night, Wednesday. Although I obviously did not partake in much of the asado eating, it was still a fun, family style eating and drinking fest on out terrace. The hosts bought $600 PESOS worth of meat, that is a LOT here, usually asados are like $100-200 max. They went all out. Lots of bloody meat. Yum.
THEN, last night, Thursday, we had our monthly welcome dinner. The welcome dinner is imfamous! Our placement company, Road2Argentina brings in these caterers that specialize in thin crust amazing stone grilled pizza. They make a ton of pizzas throughout the night and just circle around, passing little squares out to each open hand. Needless to say, it is very easy to become overstuffed (in the best way possible.) My favorite of the pizzas is the Neopolitana (may have botched that spelling) but it is a mozzerla pizza with sauce and fresh tomatoes. Yum.
Tonight, who knows? We're fighting between Indian and Mexican. I may try a water-only diet next week for recover! Haha, yeah right, that would not fly here.
Besos,
XoXo Breezy