Chile Forum

mlightheart wrote:Here's an interesting sweet potato recipe that I came across. Cheers.

http://www.cooking.com/recipes-and-more ... -3000.aspx

Where and when do we find sweet potato (camote) in Chile? I normally do french fries with sweet potato when in the US (as in buying them at Fuddruckers).
TP

T_ROBO wrote:

mlightheart wrote:Here's an interesting sweet potato recipe that I came across. Cheers.

http://www.cooking.com/recipes-and-more ... -3000.aspx

Where and when do we find sweet potato (camote) in Chile? I normally do french fries with sweet potato when in the US (as in buying them at Fuddruckers).
TP

The only place that I have seen them is at one of the Liders here in Temuco. They have had them for the past few years. I just picked up some a few days before Thanksgiving. Have not seen any in the open market place downtown.

But they are pale compared to what we are used to in the US. But good.

T_ROBO wrote:

mlightheart wrote:Here's an interesting sweet potato recipe that I came across. Cheers.

http://www.cooking.com/recipes-and-more ... -3000.aspx

Where and when do we find sweet potato (camote) in Chile?

We had some oven-baked camote and carrot fries here last week, got the camote at the local Unimarc in Natales, so must be in season somewhere.

The Peruvian stalls in La Vega in Santiago often have them. They are much denser and sweeter than local camote and very orange inside. They must grow them somewhere here.

No stalls at the farmers market in La Serena had camote. I was told to wait a few more months. I did find them at Super Lider, but they were pricey. I've seen them next to the frozen fruit section in most other supermarkets...bright orange, nothing like what I bought fresh from Lider. Of course when referring to camote, fresh is a relative term. Those suckers can last a long time, especially in the fridge!

rocksana wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:
For those looking for quality Big American Breakfast in Santiago, you can head to Cafe Melba near Metro Tobalaba.

HMMM, Melba's pancake's are great. Next time I visit I will go there. Do you remember the name of the street? All I remember is that it was somewhere near El Golf, on a small street.

Cafe Melba is on "Don Carlos", just west of El Bosque Norte. It's an easy walk from both Tobalaba & El Golf Metro Stations.

sopaipilla wrote:

rocksana wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:
For those looking for quality Big American Breakfast in Santiago, you can head to Cafe Melba near Metro Tobalaba.

HMMM, Melba's pancake's are great. Next time I visit I will go there. Do you remember the name of the street? All I remember is that it was somewhere near El Golf, on a small street.

Cafe Melba is on "Don Carlos", just west of El Bosque Norte. It's an easy walk from both Tobalaba & El Golf Metro Stations.

Dell opened a second place on Presidente Riesco. Nice and peaceful on a Sunday morning (and plenty of parking!).

Donnybrook wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:

rocksana wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:
For those looking for quality Big American Breakfast in Santiago, you can head to Cafe Melba near Metro Tobalaba.

HMMM, Melba's pancake's are great. Next time I visit I will go there. Do you remember the name of the street? All I remember is that it was somewhere near El Golf, on a small street.

Cafe Melba is on "Don Carlos", just west of El Bosque Norte. It's an easy walk from both Tobalaba & El Golf Metro Stations.

Dell opened a second place on Presidente Riesco. Nice and peaceful on a Sunday morning (and plenty of parking!).

I get sick of them telling me the lattecomes in a bowl, i know this, i like it this way, now give me my latte!
, otherwise the service at Presidente riesco is 100 times better than the other...

i hope that now dell isnt focusing on akarana she can focus on making the melbas great and with good service...!!

zer0nz wrote:

Donnybrook wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:

rocksana wrote:

sopaipilla wrote:
For those looking for quality Big American Breakfast in Santiago, you can head to Cafe Melba near Metro Tobalaba.

HMMM, Melba's pancake's are great. Next time I visit I will go there. Do you remember the name of the street? All I remember is that it was somewhere near El Golf, on a small street.

Cafe Melba is on "Don Carlos", just west of El Bosque Norte. It's an easy walk from both Tobalaba & El Golf Metro Stations.

Dell opened a second place on Presidente Riesco. Nice and peaceful on a Sunday morning (and plenty of parking!).

I get sick of them telling me the lattecomes in a bowl, i know this, i like it this way, now give me my latte!
, otherwise the service at Presidente riesco is 100 times better than the other...

i hope that now dell isnt focusing on akarana she can focus on making the melbas great and with good service...!!

Is the new place on Presidente Riesco a second location of Cafe Melba or is a completely new place? Anyone know the cross street for it on Pres. Riesco? I'd love to check it out if the service is better

Second location, also Del's.
http://restaurantes.emol.com/detalle-restaurant.php/Café-Melba-2863.htm (with map)
http://www.santiagomagazine.cl/food/las ... ness-lunch

helibel wrote:Standard BBQ could be ribs or could be like "pulled pork",or fall off the bone brisket in a BBQ sauce and sold as a BBQ sandwich. these can be hard to find anywhere exceopt as you said in certain regions. Ribs are generally available where i live but nowhere near as good as a great Rib joint in the US. I do remember being invited to parties in Chile,where a pig was slow roated on a spit over an open fire, but I do not now recall what it was basted with.

Think you and others hit it on the head: when it comes to certain foods, especially BBQ, it has to be done at home. Building a home smoker is a very easy task as well. Being that I just moved here last week from BsAs with my life in just 3 pices of luggage, I'll be starting over in building a smoker.

A nice work around though that I've found from even just visiting here, has been a number of places that have pernil ahumado. I then simply order it para llevar and bring it home to pull the meat off, mix it with my homemade BBQ sauce and it's pretty close to the pulled pork (usually pork shoulder in the US) you'd get at a local BBQ joint.

Hey Quinn
how's the smoker coming along?
Great idea regarding the pork to go & mix with BBQ sauce!!!
Thanks!
Lana