Saturday, March 2, 2013

Simple Pleasures

Today was very productive.  I sorted out all our finances that piled up while we were traveling, organized and distributed photos from my trip, and did some planning for the trip my high school friends are taking down here to Santiago at the end of March (yay!).  Tonight we had a "despedida" or goodbye party for Garrett and Jamie.  Garrett was a ChACEr 2 years ago and stayed at St. George for a second year.  He and his girlfriend Jamie, who has been working in Santiago the last two years, will head back to the states this week.  We had an asado then went out to a salsa club.  It was a good time.

The picture below are the products of Sarah's baking this afternoon.  She made chocolate chip cookies and banana bread.  These are definitely simple pleasures but are tough to come by down here.  Brown sugar doesn't exist in Chile so it has to be brought down from the states when people go home.  We have a limited supply, so we have to pick our cookie dates wisely, but they're so delicious.

Hoping to do some epic apartment cleaning tomorrow.  There is lots of food and lots of bathroom products that were left behind that have to go.  And I will finally hang my paintings from Rio so I can post pictures!

 

2 comments:

  1. Can you get molasses? Because you can totally make brown sugar.
    http://joythebaker.com/2010/08/how-to-make-brown-sugar/
    I know. Mind blown.
    xo J

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  2. This is fun! I comment on your blog, you comment on mine...
    I actually thought about going down this road. Molasses isn't here either, and I think that's why there isn't any brown sugar. Apparently there is some sort of solid substance you can get, throw in a pot with water, boil down to molasses, and then use it to make brown sugar. Sounds like a lot of work.
    But I bet you're making your own brown sugar now, aren't you?

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