Cakes!

I am amazed at the beautiful cakes that they have here in Argentina. they look so good in the shops but at the weekend I had a beautiful home made chocolate cake. Rosa baked the cake and Roseana decorated it.

The strawberries came from further north and they were very sweet. First she cut the cake in half through the middle, then she filled it with Dulce con leche, which is really like condensed milk that has been boiled until it is the colour of caramel.

She then covered it with a thin layer of cream, to which she attached the cut strawberries, then she decorated it with chocolate. Quite delicious. She made such a beautiful job of it.

For lunch before this we had chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, cooked in the oven and then covered with a sauce made from cream, mushrooms and onions. Not so good for the cholesterol!! It did taste fantastic but the portions were just enormous!! We ate at 1.30pm and that was enough for the rest of the day. Many of the people are like that, they have the main meal in the middle of the day and just have something light at the end of the day. I do find it rather difficult to eat a big meal at ten or eleven at night then go straight to bed. However, our every day routine is a little different and our main meal is late at night.