If Pedro was a Chilean food and drink, what would he be? 👀
For me, he would be pastel de choclo: when you first see it, it looks warm and delicious, and when you get below the surface, you realize it is complex and filling and full of little surprises. It’s a comfort food with complexity. Very Pedro to me.
For the drink, I choose Perez Cruz Carmenere: earthy, cozy flavor with notes of berry and chocolate, it is so satisfying to drink but also complex and layered, just like Pedro.
Runner up: Piscola, because it is both sweet and tangy and very down to earth and accessible.
Very fun question, thank you for asking!
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vegan chilean street food inspired burritos with summer fruit salad
preface
this is a fully vegan recipe; if there is ever any doubt that an ingredient i call for in this recipe for may not be vegan, do assume that i am calling for a vegan version of said ingredient. to make this fact additionally clear, i will use the denotion "v. 'ingredient'" throughout the recipe for more potentially uncertain products (i.e. 'v. cheese' refers to a product such as violife, which i used in making this recipe). regardless of all syntax and formatting, this recipe is fully vegan.
v. chorizo anticucho
ingredients:
> one package of soyrizo (v. chorizo).
> anticucho spice blend (mix to your taste):
goat horn chili flake
salt
pepper
oregano (need to buy oregano)
umami mushroom seasoning
v. chicken bouillon powder
balsamic vinegar
white wine vinegar
msg
> one hash brown patty.
> one half of a small onion, diced.
> canola oil.
directions:
> preheat a large pan over medium - high heat.
> prepare the hash brown by baking or frying until lightly golden, then cool, dice, and set aside.
> in a large bowl, mix the spice blend into the soyrizo until well combined. adjust seasoning as desired.
> oil the pan once hot, and then cook soyrizo until just browning.
push the soyrizo off to one side of the pan, and then add in the prepared hash-brown and onion to the pan, cooking separately from the soyrizo until browned to your ilk. mix together until combined, keep warm until assembly.
v. toquehue (tomate/queso/huevos) burrito filling
ingredients:
> one small onion, diced.
> one medium heirloom tomato.
> two cloves of garlic, minced.
> one block of firm tofu, drained and rinsed.
> several handfuls of v. cheese shreds.
> chopped frozen spinach, as much as you see fit 🫡🫡.
> seasoning blend (to taste):
black salt
turmeric
paprika
smoked paprika
cumin
salt
pepper
v. chicken bouillon powder
directions:
> dice and set aside the tomato until ready to assemble.
> prepare tofu:
crumble block into a few large pieces, then squeeze water out of tofu with as much force as it takes to fracture the tofu without causing it to crumble entirely. repeat with the rest of the tofu, then set aside onto a paper towel. let sit until ready to add to pan.
> in a hot pan with shallow oil, cook the onion until soft and light brown.
> add in garlic and cook until golden.
add in the prepared tofu and seasoning blend, and then working in batches, top yhe scramble with handfuls of the v. shreds, allowing it to slowly melt on top before incorporating. continue to cook on lowered heat until desired eggy flavor and consistency are reached. keep warm until assembly.
fruit salad:
ingredients
a couple handfuls of local foraged blackberries
one half of a honey - crisp apple
two kiwis
two small plums
** get whatever is ripe/in season. this is what was that looked like for me **
directions:
wash the blackberries. clean and dice the remaining fruit, then mix everything together in a mixing bowl. refrigerate until ready to serve.
burrito assembly and serving
ingredients:
> large flour tortillas.
directions:
> onto the tortilla place the following, in order:
prepared heirloom tomato
more v. shredded cheese
warm tofu scramble
warm soyrizo anticucho
roll the burrito using a final layer of v. cheese to seal the burrito like an envelop as you finish rolling. place the burrito seam side down in a still-hot pan and grill until the tortilla is browned to your liking. serve immediately with chilled fruit salad, and enjoy!
about
i had originally gone to the store with the intention of making crunchwraps later that night, but once home i changed course. i switched from crunchwrap to burrito, chose the cuisine i would try to emulate (chilean street food, as inspired by my lovely fiance) and, on a whim, decided to incorporate locally forged blackberries into a ripe summer fruit salad. it turned out far better than expected, with the anticucho and blackberries being the standout stars of the show.
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Hi! The few times I have eaten Chilean food, it didn’t seem very spicy. How do you think Pedro will do on “Hot Ones”?
I’m so curious about this too because you’re right, Chilean food is usually not spicy. You can make some things spicy though, like how my family makes pebre with habanero peppers, but I’m curious too if he likes or can tolerate spice. I love spicy food!
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One of the trends in Europe that I hate the most is the colorless fad of interior design, where your home looks best as long as it is in either 142546353 shades of beige or completely white with like, a splash of overtly-whitened blue. I'm moving out and my ma was telling me that she couldn't wait to see how I brought me and my friends' personalities into the apartment, and I kept thinking that I wanted it to be cozy and colorful.
And just as I was thinking that, a very dear friend of mine (who is Colombian!) called me up to tell me that they'd been cleaning in their home, and they had a bunch of tablecloths that they were going to donate. If i wanted to, I could go over and grab a few! It's gonna save us some money, so of course I went right away and -
This is gorgeous. I was just staring at it, holding the thick fabric in my hands, thinking about how foreign the style is to everything I've been looking at in stores, and my friend's mother (half Colombian, half Venezuelan) told me that this was bought in Cartagena so very long ago. I asked her which, to which she replied Colombia, and she had a fondness for it, but they just didn't have space.
It's ours now! And I keep looking at it, running my fingers through it, and I can't believe that I get to have something so dear from someone who's already done so much for me. It reminds me of how little people know and appreciate South American countries, and their colorful traditions that I get to hold in my hands now.
I'm very sad to be leaving, since I won't be neighbors with them anymore, but I'm so very glad that I get to keep them in my heart, in my table, when food is shared, as it is my favorite love language.
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